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Oh and I would recommend earlier. If you're doing a wash, timing shouldn't effect it towards blue anyway surely?
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Thank you!! Yes, going to ask the dr about earlier and maybe different drugs.....I just hate taking suppositories!!! Maybe earlier then trigger! I hope someone chimes in.......help!! Going to continue my supps.....everything I have been doing!! Putting hubby back on cranberry...he's gonna be thrilled!!!!
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IUI's have a low chance at working. Did you ask the stats? Ashkash tried 4 times before she got her BFP recently. Most MS/IUIs took multiple tries. It's probably a combination of things but your fertility may not have anything to do with it.
Clomid and IUI success rates are about 10% per month for women under 35 if the tubes are open by a hysterosalpingogram (HSG) and semen analysis is normal.
This statistic holds true for about 3 cycles - after that it is significantly lower
With injectables, in women under 35 with open tubes, no endometriosis, and a male with normal semen, the success rate with injectables and IUI is about 15% per month (up to 3 tries).
Those stats are from Advanced Fertility.
So, it is just hard to get pregnant with an IUI and you should count on 3 cycles to find success. I would have hoped they discussed this with you so you had some idea going in what you are facing. Is it still a little early? How many dpo are you?
That is why atomic was upset with the timing part. IUI is hard enough, then you try and mess with the timing where your eggs that did ovulate may have already expired and they just made it that much harder. I get trying to do the best sway but the study with the O+12 is based upon 33 women. That's not really a solid statistic.
You can find success with your next attempt if this one is a bust. I would not want more follicles than 2 because you could end up with a dangerous higher order pregnancy(Jon & Kate style) and that would be a disaster.
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Well spoke to my doctor......and next cycle no drugs at all and no trigger!! The timing was perfect and my eggs were not expired nuthinbutpink. My dr did an ultrasound at time of IUI and if I had ovulated already then she would have known. I just talked to her about everything. Using clomid and trigger may have been the culprit. My husbands semen analysis was great....I mean at IUI after wash he had 103 MILLION. I had an HSG done a month before my IUI and my tubes are wide open!!! Yes, the clinic went over stats but I am not infertile and even the doctor was shocked and actually said to me she was a little concerned I was going to have twins!!! So this is a shock!! And as far as Atomic....she is not my doctor nor does she know my history!! If she wants to give me advice on diet and her research in that area then that's fine, but as far as an iui timing and what went on in my particular case, she has really no knowledge in that area. I have always gotten pregnant first month with all my kids!! So, this is crazy to me!! I knew there was a chance but really didn't think it would happen. Anyhow, going to really do diet hard next couple weeks!! Any suggestions ladies!! What to eat I mean???? Give me a menu...the hardest sway possible. I just worry that I am only 105lbs and I don't want to drop too much weight which could prevent me from getting pregnant. Is there anything I can eat that is not so hard core???? I do exercise a lot.....suggestions on that??? I do kickboxing, zumba, step, spin all week long. Can you recommend what I should do as far as that????
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If you have read on the HT forums, IUI is just not that easy to get pregnant with. We are all fertile. Everyone that did a MS/IUI was fertile. Ashkash is fertile. IVF doesn't work the first time either and we are all fertile.
The IUI/IVF world is just different. It's not natural and it is harder to get pregnant that way. You had said previously that you had already ovulated and there is no way to know when and how long it had been since. You never said the sizes of the follicles that you had so it is hard to know how many may have been mature.
If you choose to go natural, you will have to catch the one egg and timing will be critical. Perhaps an IUI 24 hours after surge and 36 hours after surge? A HT user just did this on the HT forum and she is in the 2WW.
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Nuthinbutpink.....IUI/MS verses IUI with a wash are two different things. Doing MS in general is very, very harsh on the sperm.....that is why the pregnancy rate is so low...not the IUI part. IUI is still way more natural than any fertility out there. Comparing it to IVF, well, that's like comparing Apples and oranges. IVF is a very unnatural process. You are taking the eggs out, fertilizing them and then putting them back in hopes that they stick in there. Very different than an IUI. With IUI the sperm still meets the egg in the uterus and goes into the fallopian tubes and so on. Very different. Spinning for a girl....not harsh at all. Infertile woman get sperm washing before IUI all the time and get pregnant. I thought I had a GREAT chance at getting pregnant being that I have had 5 LIVE births, no complications or Miscarriages in my life. The doctor even thought it was going to work. But, it does happen.....I get it. Now its time to move on. I guess my doctor feels that I do ok on my own getting pregnant.....I mean I just had a baby 17 months ago, my body should know the mode!!! My doctor is going to do the same timing.......she said timing was not a factor at all. I was ovulating and I caught the surge. Must of been egg quality. Or she did tell me to test in a few days if I have not had my period yet.....late implantation. She did mention that sometimes IUI's can implant late. But, I am not holding out for that!! I will just do it again. I am so scared to do the drugs again because I responded so well. If we upped them then my chances of canceling are higher as well as multiples. I just don't know what to do anymore. Do I do the same thing....50mg clomid and trigger shot or do natural as the doctor suggested with me doing OPKs and then when I get a positive go in the next day or so and just do the wash???? I am so confused since this is the last time I can do this!!!!!
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That's what is so so funny hopingforsaskia.....I did sway hard last time...with EGS and put my dh's sperm in a Diva cup and got pregnant. Here my doctor did an IUI and went to the opening which took longer to inseminate and I didn't get pregnant!! Wow....so crazy!! Why does getting a daughter have to be this hard. I know I am blessed with five health boys.....is it too much for me to want a daughter too. This wasn't even 100% either....I was gambling a bit. I have never had a problem getting pregnant ever. No miscarriages or anything.
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Yes, I am familiar with how unnatural IVF is.
I hope you get your DD.
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Yes, I know you are aware of that!! I see nothing wrong with it....I just really can't put my family out that much you know! Now my husband said today...."can you imagine if we spent 20,000 and not get pregnant". It would stink yes, but I would have taken the gamble with that too!!
Thank You.....I hope so too....at this rate I just have to believe it will happen and believe that next time I am going to get pregnant and its' going to be a girl!!!!
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sorry you got a BFN, hope you get lucky next time
I think in your position I'd stick with the sperm sorting and try and get the swimmers in there before OV happens so that the sperm will be in the right place at the right time, ready to catch the egg when it pops out - that way the odds of pink AND pregnancy would be in your favour too
hope next cycle is a sticky one for you!
