https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:06:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1631566 Tue, 13 May 2014 12:58:22 +0000 Jenn23 1631566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: I had a long break before IVF, but as others said, you don't have to wait too long between cycles. I wish you all the best with the next IUI and hope it works!!! :) I know how hard it is waiting and wondering when you will get your BFP. And as you said it truly is like hell. I suffered deep depression at times during our two year infertility struggles. It sucks! You will get through this. :) Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1630589 Tue, 13 May 2014 07:43:56 +0000 Sunshine1810 1630589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: Thank you! I am glad that your RE won't make you push through 3 IUIs if they think that it doesn't have a great chance. Each one is so emotionally draining. Good luck to you! :goodluck: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629698 Mon, 12 May 2014 16:28:46 +0000 mopeybuthopey 1629698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>thanks @meganmp!!! Your story gives me hope! Good to have a sense of your timeline too. I think that first negative would be especially tough :| though definitely not uncommon. I'm glad you got a BFP just a couple months later. Hard to keep my head above the water with all of this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629690 Mon, 12 May 2014 16:24:20 +0000 meganmp 1629690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: We also had unexplained- both my blood work and DH's came back stellar, and my HSG was clear. We had three failed IUIs (last one was in November 2011). I wanted to move right into IVF, but I was on BCP to get my ovaries to rest, as well as the fact that otherwise my schedule may have had my retrieval or transfer date on the one day a year the lab is closed (Christmas).<br /> So:<br /> November: failed IUI<br /> December: BCP for 3 weeks, stims for 11 days or so. Retrieval early January, 5 day transfer. :bfn:<br /> January: month off to rest my ovaries<br /> February (late): FET<br /> March: :bfp: </p> <p>Best of luck! We were also in the nada insurance category. I feel your pain, my dear! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629593 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:51:51 +0000 mopeybuthopey 1629593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best wishes @sunshine1810!! Hope this is your lucky cycle too!!</p> <p>Hadn't thought about all the releases-- that is definitely some heavy stuff. </p> <p>My RE told me she wouldn't make me do three iuis if the stress became too much. We're essentially unexplained-- I have super mild PCOS and endo, neither of which she thinks are the cause of our failures. So IUI isn't really as likely to be successful for us compared to, for example, minor male factor or PCOS that causes non-ovulation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629591 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:51:35 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1629591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: thank you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629552 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:11 +0000 Sunshine1810 1629552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: We just signed our life away today as well. We didn't have to meet with a social worker, but we had to do 30 pages of consent forms with the RE. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629546 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:38:17 +0000 swedishfish 1629546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: we skipped our remaining IUIs because DH's washed numbers were really bad. So I asked for my RE's opinion and he recommended going right to IVF with ICSI.</p> <p>We had to meet with a social worker to make sure we were on the same page with IVF. We had to sign our lives away - what to do with frozen embryos if we divorced, if one or both of us died, etc. It's heavy stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629541 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:37:11 +0000 Sunshine1810 1629541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: Our RE made us do 3 IUIs before considering IVF. That is their policy but I am sure that every clinic is different. It does feel like there are a lot of steps to take as @Mrs Green Grass said. I have gone back and forth between feeling like it's taking forever to all of sudden realizing that it's actually happening. Just to give you an idea of our timeline:</p> <p>04/26: Started BCP</p> <p>05/09: Medications were delivered</p> <p>05/12: Mock Transfer</p> <p>05/14: Injections Class</p> <p>05/16: Hopefully Begin Injections</p> <p>05/30: Ultrasound &amp; Labs</p> <p>06/04: Ultrasound &amp; Labs</p> <p>06/06: Ultrasound &amp; Labs</p> <p>Week of 06/09: Transfer &amp; Retrieval</p> <p>This is of course if everything goes exactly according to plan. Hope that helps give you a little better of an idea! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629523 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:29:42 +0000 mopeybuthopey 1629523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish -- I totally understand the decision to skip remainders and go straight to IVF. I think I'm going to do two IUIs and then skip to IVF. Every month the let down gets worse, and I'm ready to try something that has a higher than the natural rate success rate. I know there are no guarantees, but I just want to know if I can get pregnant or not.</p> <p>Interesting they made you meet with a social worker. Was this to confirm they felt your were qualified parents or more to handle the stresses of the "what if's" of IVF? </p> <p>Really hope we finally get a BFP. Limbo land is the worst. I think it is one of the inner circles of hell in Dante's inferno (seriously).</p> <p>Best wishes to you guys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629509 Mon, 12 May 2014 15:23:12 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1629509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All I remember is that it felt like forever in between (it was probably 6 weeks). You have to get a "schedule" and it depends on the clinic and other factors. Your cycle doesn't matter a ton because they manipulate it with bcps, etc. Definitely start the process as soon as possible so that the time in between is short. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629433 Mon, 12 May 2014 14:51:45 +0000 swedishfish 1629433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mopeybuthopey: I didn't have a saline sono done for my IUIs but I needed one for my IVF cycle (and now my FET cycle). So that would have to be done. I jumped right from IUI to IVF but was on BC pills for over a month because the lab was closed for cleaning.</p> <p>July 2012 - double IUI cycle<br /> August 2012 - :bfn: , decision made to skip remaining IUIs and go to IVF<br /> September 2012 - IVF</p> <p>We were also required to meet with a social worker before undergoing IVF and attend an IVF introduction class. The requirements depend on your clinic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629196 Mon, 12 May 2014 13:44:58 +0000 mopeybuthopey 1629196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks guys. @leialou - I hope May is your month!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629021 Mon, 12 May 2014 12:49:11 +0000 Sunshine1810 1629021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My doctor would have let me move from our third failed IUI to IVF but we ended up taking a break for financial reasons. There is still a delay though because of BCP which @LEIALOU mentioned. We then ended up getting insurance coverage so we had a few months off. My doctor has said she likes month in between fresh cycles, but that as long as I was doing okay, we could move on from fresh to FET the next month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1629007 Mon, 12 May 2014 12:42:13 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1629007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My guess is that there would be a month between IUI and IVF. My doctor wanted me on BCP a month before I started IVF meds. I think after a fresh cycle you can go straight to a frozen cycle. I actually didn't want to do that because I needed a break from meds for my mental health. Here is what my schedule has been:</p> <p>July 2013: trail transfer and saline sonogram, started BCP<br /> Aug 2013: fresh IVF cycle, failed<br /> Nov 2013: BCP for FET<br /> Dec 2013: FET, failed<br /> March 2014: BCP for FET<br /> May 2014: FET </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1628997 Mon, 12 May 2014 12:38:07 +0000 raintreebee 1628997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was allowed to do a frozen cycle right after a fresh one. I then moved on to another (successful) fresh cycle right after the frozen one. I think in general my RE wanted to wait one cycle in between fresh ones. I think he also would have let me jump straight from IUIs to IVF assuming my ovaries looked okay, but I needed a break psychologically. I was happy, however, to quickly go through the IVF rounds--moving forward was the only thing that saved me from depression. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-understand-ivf-scheduling#post-1628988 Mon, 12 May 2014 12:35:03 +0000 mopeybuthopey 1628988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi ladies. One cycle of IUI down two more to go. I was wondering: if the third cycle fails, can I generally move into ivf as soon as my period starts or is there a waiting time?</p> <p>For what it's worth, I'm privately paying and insurance covers nada so there's no hold up there. </p> <p>Also if my first ivf cycle weren't to result in a positive and I'm lucky enough to have a frozen embryo left over, how long after the failed fresh cycle does it to take to be ready to implant the frozen one? Can you do it the next cycle (as in the same cycle AF arrives)?</p> <p>If there are no frozen options... How long till you can start a new fresh cycle? Thanks guys. Tryin to figure out scheduling. My life has been on hold for so long now :/ </p>