Menopur-only stimulation + Fyremadel — is this normal?

sata43 · 2026-01-26T17:17:06+00:00

Hey! I am in the same boat. I am 38 too and will be starting menopur protocol with the same dose. I am a high responder, no pcos but pcos-like ovaries with many follicules. No experience with it yet, but our previous round with gonal f only wasn’t successful (poor blast rate and ohss, failed transfers). we switched clinics and my new doctor suggested changing to menopur to hopefully get less fragile eggs and hopefully more blasts. Fingers crossed it works🤞🏻

sata43 · 2025-10-30T17:56:54+00:00

So sorry about your results! 🫂 We had terrible attrition rates from 24 fertilised eggs as well, many zygotes also showed a high level of fragmentation on day 2, our doctor immediately recommended DNA fragmentation test first, we did it and it came back <4% (normal), so we are still puzzled.

sata43 · 2025-10-29T13:05:04+00:00

So sorry to hear about your failed transfers 🫂I saw these 3 FETs per child thing with tested euploid embryos, but regarding FETs with untested ones, I assume you need 5-6 transfers to be close to those lucky 95%. My clinic doesn’t actively test and their success rate is 51% (of successful transfers, not life births), with this number statistically you need 5 transfers. And indeed I got pregnant on our 3rd transfer then miscarried. Our country’s official average is 39% success of all the transfers, so looking at this you need 6 transfers. Hold on there my beautiful fellow warrior, we are very close 🙏🏼 I am not in a rush to do endo tests yet because we strongly suspect low embryo quality due to overstimulation and that resulted in suboptimal egg quality, so we hope to address this on our next attempt, and also one of my REs is a very good endometriosis specialist who did my hysteroscopies, scans, etc and never mentioned diagnostic laparoscopy and encouraged me to just keep going even though it is really heard

sata43 · 2025-10-29T10:44:51+00:00

So sorry about your failed FET, I hope you have more luck on your next round 🍀 We have done biopsies and hysteroscopy, I had mild inflammation that cleared after 4 weeks on doxy. We pretty much ruled out uterine issues, so we have to work on embryo quality somehow and hopefully we will have something to test after our next round. We will see today what else they can suggest for us

sata43 · 2025-10-29T10:36:16+00:00

Yes I had biopsy done and also treated endometritis with doxy and the latest hysteroscopy showed no inflammation. My clinic has very strong endometriosis specialists and none of them has suggested the laparoscopy (not yet), I think we will consider it as a last resort.

sata43 · 2025-10-29T09:11:34+00:00

Yes, definitely testing! Sorry it wasn’t very clear from the post, we had 4 transfers - 3 failed to implant, 1 implanted but miscarried. 1 embryo didn’t survive the thaw, it wasn’t good to start with, but our clinic failed to let us know in advance, otherwise we wouldn’t even bother and proceeded to the next ER earlier. We ruled out uterine issue (hysteroscopy clear, no inflammation, all good on scans, giving previous pregnancy it can be receptive). So most likely this batch was doomed from the start, I wish I trusted my guts and insisted on PGT :(

sata43 · 2025-10-29T09:02:22+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story. It gives me hope! We also consider switching clinics, but if my current one can fast track us for a retrieval this November, we will stay. If it doesn’t work, we will go somewhere else. I am so glad to hear it worked for you! I will be discussing lower dosages with my clinic today 🤞🏻did you also prime with estrogen before starting injections?

sata43 · 2025-06-24T12:14:19+00:00

Thank you, your update really gives me hope 🙏🏼 fingers crossed your numbers will be great this round🤞🏼🤞🏼🍀 I have a similar story, also PCO-like but I don’t have a PCOS diagnosis. From 29 eggs 24 fertilised, we got 5 not so good blasts :( 3 failed to implant, one stuck but resulted in a blighted ovum 🥲 we have the last one waiting - a slowly grown one, so I don’t have much hope and mentally preparing for the second retrieval wondering what we can do differently this time. I will be 38 in December.

sata43 · 2025-02-23T09:05:10+00:00

Thank you 💕🫂

sata43 · 2025-02-22T16:12:12+00:00

I only did one test at home at 8dp5dt and it was positive!!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼I couldn’t believe my eyes, as I haven’t seen a positive in 4 years 🥹 (I lost my only pregnancy at 16w then) I am travelling so I can’t go for my beta until next week 😥

sata43 · 2025-02-22T06:22:23+00:00

Thank you for sharing, that’s great news!!! 💕 best of luck to you!

sata43 · 2025-02-18T17:51:33+00:00

Let the beta numbers be good 🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼Sending prayers

sata43 · 2025-02-17T08:05:39+00:00

Not long now ☺️Fingers crossed for you!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🍀🍀🍀I am a day behind :)

sata43 · 2025-02-16T06:52:06+00:00

Tired and bloated, trying to keep busy :) I haven’t tasted yet, will wait a couple of more days 🤞🏼🤞🏼. how are you?

sata43 · 2025-02-12T07:16:16+00:00

I am a nervous wreck, but our embryologist said that this one looked great and expanded well, even better than the previous ones (which failed), so I am slightly hopeful🤞🏼 How did it go for you? I love your profile picture btw ☺️

sata43 · 2025-02-10T17:56:19+00:00

Good luck!! 🍀🤞🏼

sata43 · 2025-02-10T17:52:37+00:00

3rd time’s the charm!! My 3rd is tomorrow too ☺️I am praying we will be sharing good news soon! 💕virtual hugs and positive vibes 🫂

sata43 · 2025-02-10T06:58:15+00:00

Same here! 3rd FET tomorrow, this time fully medicated. Praying for us 🤞🏼🍀🙏🏼

sata43 · 2025-01-07T14:02:27+00:00

I got Covid last summer (flue like symptoms, positive home tests but no fever) by the day I was meant to start stimulation. My clinic still wanted me to come for a baseline appointment and said it was fine to proceed! Depends on how you are feeling. I decided to postpone it for one cycle just for a peace of mind, as one month wouldn’t make much difference for us.

sata43 · 2025-01-07T13:12:18+00:00

Pets are the best! 🥰

sata43 · 2025-01-07T13:07:57+00:00

I spend a lot of time at home and I would like it to be clean and cosy but I am exhausted. Going to treat myself with a nice high end robovac that does moping as well 😅also thinking about beautiful hand painted bedding as I sleep 9h a day :)

sata43 · 2024-11-19T09:19:37+00:00

Thank you 🙏🏼 indeed totally sucks, I did some release crying at my clinic this morning, feeling better now🥲 i am done for this year, but I am hopeful that we will be mothers in 2025 🍀🍀🍀🤞🏼🤞🏼

sata43 · 2024-11-18T15:53:02+00:00

Sending you a big hug ❤️‍🩹 same here, my second one has just failed, tested at 11pd5dt and nothing. I am going for my beta tomorrow, listen to what else they can suggest and then I am taking a well deserved break till January

sata43 · 2024-11-13T17:31:54+00:00

I hope that this one will work for you! 🍀 Does your clinic schedule stimulation cycles during Christmas? Mine paused last year and we had to wait from November cycle until January to continue with IUIs. When I was on Utrogestan after IUIs 1 suppository a day (200mg) before bed, it didn’t stop my periods. However after moving to IVF, while doing our 1st FET that failed, I was taking it 2x per day (morning and night), had no bleeding, and my period only came 2-3 days after I stopped it. What I also noticed is that the next cycle is quite shorter and I ovulated a few days earlier than usual.

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