Trigger on Day 9 with Clomid?

[Anonymous]

So I just got my protocol, and I'm taking clomid from day 3-7, then u/s on Day 9, trigger that night if I'm responding well to the Clomid.

This seems early, is this normal? Does clomid speed up egg maturation that much?

[Anonymous]

What strikes me as odd is that they have a tentative trigger date set PRIOR to stating your cycle? Trigger dates aretypically determined by bloodwork/ultrasound DURING your cycle.

[Anonymous]

*starting your cycle*

[Anonymous]

I always had trigger and IUI dates set in advance for the four I did at CFA (though, OP, yes, day 9 seems early to me). The dates would of course be confirmed by sono/BW on scheduled trigger day.

[Anonymous]

I am 7.19 I am at CFA. Not the case for me, pp's. Who is your doctor?

[Anonymous]

This also seems strange to me - I did my IUIs at Dominion - you should be going in for monitoring to check follicle size etc and then triggering when you reach a certain size

[Anonymous]

Oh, of course they are doing it based on u/s and bloodwork. I had Day 3 bw/us yesterday. Started the Clomid last night. Based on that, I have an u/s Day 9. I guess they are expecting enough progress to trigger, or I'll get a Gonadotropin (sp?) shot if the follicles have not progressed.

I just thought it was odd that they expected the Clomid to work that fast, I'd mostly heard of Day 12 u/s.

I told the nurse that Day 9 for trigger and 10 & 11 for IUIs seems very early, and she said "the Clomid speeds it up".

Or not, in which case they'll give me another shot.

I was just wondering if this is normal, or a protocol that anyone else has tried.

Good news--Day 1 of Clomid and no side effects.

[Anonymous]

Ah - I am wondering if your nurse is confused by insinutating you'll trigger on Day 9 when really you'll start monitoring on day 9 - I usually start monitoring day 8 and I go in every morning for a few days until it's time to trigger - I think day 9 sounds normal in that instance

[Anonymous]

No, it says trigger evening of Day 9, IUI Day 10 and 11 (I'm doing back to back because it's frozen donor sperm).

[Anonymous]

OP, I posted earlier, but I still do not understand how they can determine trigger date after a day 3 bw/us? Way too early to determine, in my experience. And I also am a patient at CFA.

[Anonymous]

PP here again. The clomid has not even begun to do it's "work" if you have only been on it for 1 day, so how can they know how fast/slow the follies will grow, when you will O, etc? This is the reason for MULTIPLE monitoring visits prior to determining the trigger date.