I went to the RE this morning (CD11) to check on how I'm responding to Clomid. Last time I took it, I started to surge on CD15. The nurse scheduled me to come back on Wednesday and mentioned possible IUI on Thursday, which is earlier than I was anticipating! She said my estrogen levels were at/over (?) 500. So of course I'm googling like crazy now... Anyone know anything about estrogen levels and what this means? I just don't want to O on my own and ruin this cycle!!
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@LindsayInNY: did you have an ultrasound? The general rule of thumb I think is 150-200 (units?) of estrogen for each mature egg, but smaller immature ones will produce some estrogen too. Could just be that you have a couple/few growing in there!
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I know estrogen levels for a mature follicle they at my RE said should be between 200-500
How many follicles did you have?
You might have 1-2 that are almost ready to go
My first IUI clomid cycle I triggered day 14 had IUI day 15&16
2nd IUI I triggerd day 13 had iui day 14&15
3rd was the same as 2nd......
Your body might be responding faster this time
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@Shutterbug: Yeah, ultrasound this morning too. I believe the RE saw 3 follicles on the right ovary (1 smaller than he other 2) and I think 1 smaller follicle on the left ovary? The left ovary was hard to access due to some "Lindsay needs more fiber in her diet" issues lol (so gross!). That makes sense then!!
@FaithFertility: That's what I was trying to google and couldn't find! Makes more sense now. I'm just hoping I don't start to O on my own, although this would be really early. I hope I'm just responding to Clomid better this time! We're only doing 1 IUI though so FX!!
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@LindsayInNY: Sounds like things are going great........!!!!!
My RE office only did b2b IUIs but statistically I don't think it truly makes a difference!
Prayers for you!!!!!!
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@FaithFertility: Oh, I really hope so!!! I don't want to get my hopes up for the first IUI but it's hard not to...
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@LindsayInNY: How can you not???? We had so much hope, I basically always acting as if I was PG right after and would ride home feet on dash board....lol
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