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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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I had my appointment with my specialist today and to my shock I now have a new plan for my next FET.

Q) Why did my cycle break through with my last HRT FET cycle?
~ On DPO12/CD28 I started to spot and that continued
~ On DPO 14-15/CD30-31I started bleeding

He was a little confused what I meant by this, I had to explain that AF came while still on all medications and days before my blood test. He then asked me if I had had gastro or had been sick at anytime in the cycle, to which I answered not at all. He thought for a bit and looked over my file and then said I could do another HRT FET cycle but it could happen again. Then he suggested that a Natural FET Cycle might be better for me. OK I said and then he did all the paper work to change my cycle from a HRT FET to a Natural FET.

Q) Is it possible to have a BT to check progesterone and any other levels of anything else every 2 days or so from transfer - just so we can start to track what is actually going on?

This wont be needed as I will be doing a natural cycle, with a trigger and progesterone support.

Q) Is there any other medications that I can try that might help? eg. pregnyl and progesterone after any future transfers just to help out a bit more ?

I will be triggering with Pregnyl / Ovidrel and will be doing progesterone two times a day after transfer.

Q) My cervix
~ Is there a problem with it? If so what can be done about it?
~ How much scaring is there?
~ If it needs to be clamped next time, can it please be numbed first?


There isn't much scaring it just that my cervix is tilted and faces backwards, there is nothing that can be done to fix this but a fuller bladder might help. (not sure that it could be any fuller without peeing all over him). He also agreed to inject a local to numb it if it needs clamping again.

Q) Progesterone
~ What were my levels for each cycle?
~ Do I need more support?


With the natural cycle my body should be making it's own progesterone, that and the trigger and the progesterone pessaries should be all the support that I need.

So now I have to do some more waiting, I started the pill last week and as my clinic shares staff with another clinic I will remain on the pill now until mid July. One the 21st of July I will stop the pill and wait for AF to arrive, then on day 10 of my cycle I will commence having blood tests to see when my E2 levels rise and then I will go up for a scan. When the time is right I will trigger ovulation and then just over 6 days later I will have transfer.

It feels really good to have a different plan, doing the same old same old was really doing my head in. I wasn't expecting to get anything changed, all I wanted today was to make sure he knew what was happening. He really surprised me today, I was expecting the these things happen speech and it's a number game but I didn't.

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