15% success rate for IUI seems very low

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 15% success rate for IUI seems very low. Yes it's less medication and no egg retrieval but the low success rate makes it seem like the odds are very low of success. And there's still a significant amount of medication involved. What was your decision process when you decided to try it vs. going to IVF? I'm referring to medicated IUI.

The chance of pregnancy for t g e fertile is only 25%. 15% isn't bad in comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IVF is a lot of meds. Medicated IUI uses a small fraction of that amount.

This is not necessarily true.

Yes, it is true. You may have used similar combo of meds, but trust me, the dosages are vastly higher in IVF. To the tune of 3 900 unit vials of Follistim/Gonal AND 15+ vials of Menopur AND 5 syringes of Cetrotide/Ganilerix all this before the trigger injection.
I am not even talking about lupron and additional meds for those doing an immune protocol (antibiotics, steroid and blood thinner shots).

FYI everybody uses progesterone after transfer in IVF/FET, either as inserts or injections + estrogen pills.

I'm quite aware of what my dosages were, since I injectedly them nightly. Also aware that the progesterone is typical after Ivf, just answering a pp. I was on inserts for both iui/ivf. My meds were nearly identical, doses included, which were much higher than those listed above.

[Anonymous]

My RE said that our likelihood of IUI success was only about 5%. I have PCOS. Not sure how others are getting higher estimates. We tried IUI once without success. We went to IVF, which worked.