Femara ivf

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Avatar f tn Please Help me i am about to try ICSI or IVF but my dr told me i can try femara for another 3 months before ICSI because i have a very slim chance of getting pregnant with femara r clomid before moving to IVF but my problem is i have a chocolate cyst measuring 6cm on my right ovary {i already had lap to remove 2 cysts 5 months ago but one of them grew back and i also have one blocked tube} My question is does anyone got pregnant with chocolate cyst and a blocked tube on femara or clomid or i hav
Avatar f tn Im also on femara cycle.I don't ovulate on my own .clomid didn't work on me. I have been using femara for 6 cycles. Its working very well. Im ovulating every month and im getting periods on my own.I had iui this month,waiting for results. I wish u good luck.
Avatar n tn s - we got preg on our third, but mc) so now on our second and last with femara + follistim.. before IVF.. i forget where i found all the studies, but i had just searched online and the results looked pretty amazing! So you defintely have to keep me updated! : ) i'm not sure about the aygestin, but from what i've read its progesterone.. which would prevent ovulation.. i did read that people can develop cysts when on femara for prolonged periods..
Avatar n tn =) I had my iui earlier today, so I'm officially in my 2ww..... ahhhh its already driving me crazy!
557306 tn?1239989954 you could always try an IVF right off the bat while you have the maximum benefits from the supression from the femara.. without surgery first.. my RE was going to do IVF without surgery for me since it takes out a lot of the endo problems- the fimbrae on the fallopian tube if its stiff from the endo and not picking up the ovulating eggs it takes away that problem also the hostile environment of the endo for the ovulating egg..
255732 tn?1318517822 Hi! Yes, letrozole is the same as femara, and it does work alone. I used it alone for three cycles, and I had two mature follicles each time. As for moving straight to IVF after femara, I'm not sure why he wouldn't suggest injectable/IUI first...but you could always bring that back up if you don't get pregnant over the next three/four cycles. Best of luck to you!
Avatar m tn You should talk to your doctor, but that may be a more successful option for you considering the rounds of clomid you have already tried. You can also ask about trying a clomid alternative, such as femara. Some women find that they are more successful with IUI and femara than clomid IUI. It's also less expensive and less invasive that IVF. Good Luck!
99627 tn?1301270952 Generally, after a total of three failed cycles of clomid-IUI you and your REI might want to think about either injections with IUI, or IVF again. My vote would be for IVF, assuming that you had good egg yield and good fertilization your first two tries. Remember in nature the chances of getting pregnant every month are at best less than 30% - you just may not have given IVF enough of a chance.
629668 tn?1222914854 m on follistim +femara) and 3 ruptured... and we are again submitting and getting ready for IVF, in our last tww before officially moving on to that! SO it was almost a success story, but when we got preg there was a genetic abnormality.. so the good news is that it deifntley happens and sometimes without any help with a morph of 2% along with female issues too! GOOD LUCK! as far as side effects i really don't have any from the femara! keep us updated!
4548024 tn?1590005019 it makes me feel like no one has had any success, with letrozole(femara) and thats the fertility med im taking, i put that comment up 1 month ago, and not one person has resoponded. So does it not work.
Avatar f tn Eventually a few months later I get to an actual fertility specialist. He put me on femara 2.5mg twice a day. I had no side effects from femara, whereas with clomid the side effects were terrible (moody, hot flashes, sore boobs, etc) femara was wonderful compared to clomid! my first cycle on femara I did not ovulate, but on my second round of femara i used hcg injection and got pregnant that way. good luck!!
873190 tn?1304812975 Hi girls. Happy New Year! I was wondering if anyone had any input on using Clomid or Femara versus getting preg naturally. I am 39 y/o, ttc my first child, 4 m/c in two years. The first two pregnancies were natural and lost around 6 and 5 weeks. Then I started going to my RE. He put me on 2mg extra folic acid, 50mg levothyroxin for a slight thryoid issue, and baby asiprin plus progesterone suppositories. First round, pregnancy m/c around 4 1/2 weeks.
Avatar f tn Why do REs start with Clomid and not Femara? We all know that Clomid causes CM dryness and cysts.. then y do REs not start with Femara from the first time itself??? This Q has been bothering me since long.. Anyone knows???
374593 tn?1257879950 t find any studies that say it increases conception rates, rather it may just make you asymptomatic during the treatment time. Do you ever use Femara for fertility purposis in Endometriosis patients - even though its blacklabel for this, it seems that it would make good sense? Thanks!
Avatar f tn s, chemical pregnancy after ivf, and failed FET. I just started going to a new doctor. He put me on femara, and my 2nd month I was pregnant, no IUI or anything! Sadly, I am having a miscarriage at about 9 weeks, but it did work! I think it worked much better with my body! And i didn't feel as crappy as when I took the clomid. Good luck!!! Hope it works for you. As soon as my miscarriage is over I will be starting on femara again.
Avatar f tn So I'm on my second round of IUI. My Dr. said three rounds of IUI and then on to IVF. Does anyone have any other suggestions as to what else we could try before going on to IVF? Three rounds of IUI doesn't seem like enough if they dont' work. (I'm only on the second one now and don't know if it worked yet.)Should we change to injectables with IUI? Right now i'm on Femara and Trigger shot with IUI. Any suggestions as to what might work? Thanks!
Avatar f tn I have started on my IVF meds. Only one more day on femara, and started the follistim at 225iu last night. It burns after injecting. I have had 5 pound weight gain since starting Femara. I think it is fluid retention. My stomach is bloated also. I am also on doxycycline and dexamethosone. Is the fluid retention normal, esp the abdominal bloating?
Avatar n tn After unsuccessful clomid / IUIs cycles I was determined to move onto IVF. I know my doctor did not like my decision to move onto IVF but I was determined to get pregnant and I personally didn't want to waste time and money on things that did not work. I was blessed to have insurance cover most of the cost but it is expensive. Does your insurance cover fertility cost? Also, have you gotten a second opinion from another RE?
Avatar f tn I was wondering what the medical explanation was for why fertility drugs cause cysts? If you do get a cysts at the end of a cycle, does that mean you never had a chance of getting pg from that cycle? Is there anything a person can do to prevent the cysts? I did several cycles of Clomid with no cysts; then one cycle of Femara that produced 2 cysts. Now I'm ending another cycle of Femara and believe that I have cysts again.
374593 tn?1257879950 ve since done two cycles of femara, and then this one femara + injectables... before IVF should we do lupron for 3 months for endo suppression? ( i hear its ify if it helps the chances with iVF or not.. my RE doesn't feel strongly that it helps) or should I go to an endo specialist and have exicion surgery before trying IVF.... or should we just do the regular IVF - 2 weeks of lupron before?
Avatar f tn Last cycle I did 50mg of Clomid and had abnormal bleeding so had to move to Femara and I am happy to say I responded to Femara with no side effects! I plan on testing on 10 dpo (Feb 1st)! So anyone else waiting to test please comment below! Its going to be a long two weeks but we can do it!!!!
725941 tn?1297882209 Hello! i think there are several of us on here that have gotten preg with femara.. i took two cycles of femara without any luck (but we were told due to our issues including male factor we would need IVF.. so this wasn't a shock) but then the 3rd IUI did femara + injectables and it did work.. i have endometriosis and they really like femara for endo patients as well.. it doesn't thin the lining like clomid.. did your doctor do an ultrasound to check how many follies you had?
Avatar n tn Clomid and femara help with ovulation, but don't have that great a tendency to cause you to ovulate more than one egg at a time. So they are really useful when trying IUI. The IVF meds (and though I did IVF I can't recall all the names and which drug has what action) stimulate the ovaries to produce a lot of eggs during one cycle. This is fine if you are doing IVF because the eggs can be retrieved and then a select number placed back inside.
1235159 tn?1323009319 I took Femara during my previous IVF cycle, but I failed to get high quality of egg and enough number of egg.
Avatar f tn ( we have SO many issues.. severe endo, mild pcos.. LUFS, and male factor! phew! so we have been told pretty much IVF with ICSI was the only way.. well thank goodness i have a great RE.. he has been great about monitoring me and being aggressive.. he does pre-O ultrasounds..and ultrasounds after O to make sure the follicle ruptured we were shocked to get a BFP with our third and final IUI (moving to IVF the month afterthat!) we used femara and injectables.
391060 tn?1204749484 My next cycle which should be coming up here soon weather on my own or with Provera which I am suppose to start tomorrow if my cycle does not start today we are going to try Femara. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting pregnant on it? I am really hoping I respond with this. My Gyno told me that I should have a better shot with this then with anything else I have tried I really hope he is right.