LP question

[Threelittlemen2013]

I just did my first round of femara. Cd 5-9, 2.5mg with 200 mg of progesterone for ten days starting 3dpo. I ended up with a 11 day LP. i bounce between an 11 and 13 day LP on an unmedicated cycle. Shouldn't I be seeing a longer LP with all this medicine? I dont want to be taking things if it isnt giving me much benefit, ya know? I am talking to my doctor about doses for the next cycle tomorrow and thought I would see if anyone had a similar situation. Thanks!

[maidentomother]

Yes, you should. Personally I think you need 5mg and should take it CD3-7.

[Threelittlemen2013]

Yes, you should. Personally I think you need 5mg and should take it CD3-7.

Maiden, I sent you a PM about this. Would love to hear any advice you have.

[atomic sagebrush]

I also think you should do the Femara sooner but I do want to reassure you that 11-13 days is long enough to get pregnant and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

THere have been a couple people who suddenly developed super short LP on Clomid when they never had one before. I do not know why, it's not supposed to work that way and usually doesn't.

[Threelittlemen2013]

I also think you should do the Femara sooner but I do want to reassure you that 11-13 days is long enough to get pregnant and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

THere have been a couple people who suddenly developed super short LP on Clomid when they never had one before. I do not know why, it's not supposed to work that way and usually doesn't.

I was one of those lucky ones that went down to a 9 day LP on clomid! My last month of it, it did go back up to 12 days.

Do you think progesterone is necessary? The only thing it has stopped is a few days of spotting prior to the start of AF. I would usually spot for 2-3 days and then start af. Since taking it i have either just spotted the day before or immediately started af. But my LP has not lengthened.

[HealthyGirl]

I took femara 5 mg cd 3-7.
Not sure what the progesterone is for.
I can let you know what it does as far my LP goes.
I agree with maiden about seeing if you can take cd3-7.


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[atomic sagebrush]

Re progesterone, it is my experience that 9 days is enough to get pregnant an 11-13 is more than enough. Progesterone has been studied and was not shown to help people with anything less than a critically short LP (lik 3-7 days, very unusual) get and stay pregnant. I typically do not recommend it for anyone with anything longer than 7 days LP.

But, a lot of people do choose to use it and that is at your discretion. :)

[Threelittlemen2013]

Re progesterone, it is my experience that 9 days is enough to get pregnant an 11-13 is more than enough. Progesterone has been studied and was not shown to help people with anything less than a critically short LP (lik 3-7 days, very unusual) get and stay pregnant. I typically do not recommend it for anyone with anything longer than 7 days LP.

But, a lot of people do choose to use it and that is at your discretion. :)

The only thing I like about the progesterone is the good sleep I get. Otherwise, itmis making me bloated, break out, want to eat a ton....many things not worth it if it is not changing my LP. She out me in it after clomid shortened my LP to 9 days. I tried telling her that prior to clomid my LP was fine. I am going to skip it this month and see what happens. No call from Dr yet, so I started 2.5mg on cd3.

[Threelittlemen2013]

So my doctor said my progesterone levels were kinda low and advises me to continue taking them. :(

[atomic sagebrush]

If you're pregnant, your body will start making the progesterone on its own. It is up to you what you want to do (at least you have kind of low prog - some people are given prog with perfectly normal levels.) I think most doctors like to appear that they're doing something, even if it's proven to be a placebo.

[Threelittlemen2013]

I had my scan today. after switching to cd3-7, I have 4 follicles (1.72, 1.63, 1.47 and 1.01). I haven't been told to trigger yet. It doesn't appear that switching the days did much for me. I had 3 follicles on cd5-9 last month. One around 1.7/1.8 and two around 1.6 on cd13.

[atomic sagebrush]

You can't tell if it did anything because the eggs may be better quality. I never intended to imply you'll have like a jillion eggs (and nor do you want to) but that we are seeming to get better rates of concepiton with those days.

[Threelittlemen2013]

You can't tell if it did anything because the eggs may be better quality. I never intended to imply you'll have like a jillion eggs (and nor do you want to) but that we are seeming to get better rates of concepiton with those days.

I wasn't expecting it by any means....I was trying to refer more to ovulation as I am going to be ovulating later on cd3-7 vs cd5-9, but I definitely didn't word that right. I would take 1 good egg over several any day!