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Hi! My ivf cycle was a little longer than some others I've seen. I was on birth control for 6 weeks and then I started injections. Once those started it all went pretty quick - I did about 11 days total before triggering and my egg retrieval was 36 hours later. If you do a fresh transfer I think you could definitely have a shot by the end of the year! Good luck

I moved to IVF after my 6th failed IUI.

In August 2014, I had my 6th failed IUI and my egg retrival was end of Oct 2014. My protocol was to skip the fresh transfer and go for a FET. Due to the holidays, my FET was pushed back by a month. My FET was end of Jan 2015. My FET was a success and my B/G twins are 3 weeks old.

As for injection teaching, I needed the instructions since my IUIs were done with just oral Femera and ovidrel. The ovridel was injected by my nurse. I didn't have other types of injectibles until my IVF cycle. It was definitely helpful for me.
Anyway, lots of luck to you. I agree with others the IVF tgread was very helpful to me. I pop in there once in a while but there are some very great and amazing ladies on there and I'm always thinking of everyone going through the process.

ETA: oh, yeah, my RE required that I be on BCP for 1.5 months to quiet my ovaries before starting stims. Definitely a lot of waiting. There's an IF inspiration thread that is stickied under the IF support board and it really helped me get through those tough days.

Feel free to check out my blog around March/April 2012 to see mine. I fee like it was 3 months from planning to do it so actually doing it which was annoying. But my actua stim cycle was pretty short. I did an Antagonist Protocol.

Good luck!

Birth control for 31 days, 10 days of Lupron, 7 days of stims.

@Amorini: the timing of your cycle is almost exactly the same as my first IVF last year - retrieval was on 9/30, transfer 10/5, and I'm now holding the (very noisy but adorable) product of that cycle. Wishing you lots of luck

@Mrs. Pinky: Sorry you are having to move on to IVF. The time line of cycles varies so much with each girl. When I called for my IVF consult appointment, the first available was like 3 weeks out. From there, I got some pre-testing done August 12th, waited for CD1 to come, did BC for two weeks, started stim meds on September 3rd, egg retrieval September 16th, 5-day transfer September 21st and now I'm in the TWW. It really went very quickly once it all started.

As for the injections class, I felt the same way as you! I thought it was going to be a total waste of time, especially since they asked my husband to come along. BUT, the menopur shots were TOTALLY different than the follistim pen shots I was doing. I also really appreciated my husband being there because he forced me to ask some additional questions when I otherwise would have been like "yea, fine, whatever, i've got this" if I was there by myself.

Also, you pay a big amount of IVF, so go to anything and everything they offer you since, after all, you paid for it.

Good luck with everything, doll! You've got this!

@Mrs. Pinky: I did the antagonist protocol - Ganirelix and Menopur.