Pregnant but OHSS is gone

[Anonymous]

Who is your RE? What clinic are you at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Well, in my clinic with a medicated IUI you receive HCG shots on day 3, 6, 9 and 12 after the 2nd IUI. I also take estrogen, progesterone, a blood thinner and something for the endometrium something... I have no medical qualifications so I tend to trust what my doctor (at a very well respected clinic in my city) says. I developed OHSS after the shot on day 6 so was told to stop the shots.

Anyways, to anyone actually looking for an answer to my original question, yes, you can actually be pregnant and have OHSS recede. OHSS did not come back, but I'm 6 weeks, woot woot.

those are not hcg shots. you are mixing something up.

They are. I used Pregnil after the IUI, which is hCG. If you google, you can find articles supporting this approach. Here, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838901/

One of my previous pregnancies was achieved with the same protocol, so it clearly works.

this is very interesting, thanks. I did a lot of IUIs and had a lot of misgivings about timing, specifically I often felt IUI was happening too late compared to the natural cycle.

however one of the issues that this article doesn't mention is that washed sperm has a much shorter life than regular sperm. also, it's injected directly into the uterus and, the claim is, basically floats out of it after only 12-24 hours. these results show that this might be untrue. Maybe washed sperm lives longer than we think??

in any case, the timing of IUI/hcg is a big issue that is not getting enough attention.

[Anonymous]

To answer the PO, OHSS would not influence your beta numbers but hcg (which rises naturally after you are pregnant) tends to make ohss worse. In other words worsening OHSS is often a symptom that you are pregnant.

I had ohss after IVF and it presented right after the trigger shot, receded for several days, then came back 10x as bad because I was pregnant with multiples.

Congrats OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Well, in my clinic with a medicated IUI you receive HCG shots on day 3, 6, 9 and 12 after the 2nd IUI. I also take estrogen, progesterone, a blood thinner and something for the endometrium something... I have no medical qualifications so I tend to trust what my doctor (at a very well respected clinic in my city) says. I developed OHSS after the shot on day 6 so was told to stop the shots.

Anyways, to anyone actually looking for an answer to my original question, yes, you can actually be pregnant and have OHSS recede. OHSS did not come back, but I'm 6 weeks, woot woot.

those are not hcg shots. you are mixing something up.

They are. I used Pregnil after the IUI, which is hCG. If you google, you can find articles supporting this approach. Here, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838901/

One of my previous pregnancies was achieved with the same protocol, so it clearly works.

this is very interesting, thanks. I did a lot of IUIs and had a lot of misgivings about timing, specifically I often felt IUI was happening too late compared to the natural cycle.

however one of the issues that this article doesn't mention is that washed sperm has a much shorter life than regular sperm. also, it's injected directly into the uterus and, the claim is, basically floats out of it after only 12-24 hours. these results show that this might be untrue. Maybe washed sperm lives longer than we think??

in any case, the timing of IUI/hcg is a big issue that is not getting enough attention.

My clinic does at least three IUI's in a cycle, one the morning of the trigger, 12 or so hours after the trigger, and then 48 hours after the trigger, which I think fully covers the time conception is possible. I was really surprised to see so many people only get one IUI per cycle. I also got a kind of a suction cup that blocks the sperm from floating out, which is to be taken out after 24 hours, which per my doctor gives it an extra chance to try and work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is your RE? What clinic are you at?

I'm not in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Well, in my clinic with a medicated IUI you receive HCG shots on day 3, 6, 9 and 12 after the 2nd IUI. I also take estrogen, progesterone, a blood thinner and something for the endometrium something... I have no medical qualifications so I tend to trust what my doctor (at a very well respected clinic in my city) says. I developed OHSS after the shot on day 6 so was told to stop the shots.

Anyways, to anyone actually looking for an answer to my original question, yes, you can actually be pregnant and have OHSS recede. OHSS did not come back, but I'm 6 weeks, woot woot.

those are not hcg shots. you are mixing something up.

They are. I used Pregnil after the IUI, which is hCG. If you google, you can find articles supporting this approach. Here, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838901/

One of my previous pregnancies was achieved with the same protocol, so it clearly works.

this is very interesting, thanks. I did a lot of IUIs and had a lot of misgivings about timing, specifically I often felt IUI was happening too late compared to the natural cycle.

however one of the issues that this article doesn't mention is that washed sperm has a much shorter life than regular sperm. also, it's injected directly into the uterus and, the claim is, basically floats out of it after only 12-24 hours. these results show that this might be untrue. Maybe washed sperm lives longer than we think??

in any case, the timing of IUI/hcg is a big issue that is not getting enough attention.

My clinic does at least three IUI's in a cycle, one the morning of the trigger, 12 or so hours after the trigger, and then 48 hours after the trigger, which I think fully covers the time conception is possible. I was really surprised to see so many people only get one IUI per cycle. I also got a kind of a suction cup that blocks the sperm from floating out, which is to be taken out after 24 hours, which per my doctor gives it an extra chance to try and work.

which clinic is this? I did IUIs at three different places and nobody was doing this. I had to fight tooth and nail to do back to back IUI at one of the places.