Triggering after ovulation?

[Anonymous]

Is it bad for the cycle to administer an ovidrel trigger shot if I have already ovulated today?

This is a timed intercourse cycle with injectable meds.

I was at the clinic on Friday and they brought me back on Monday, Day 14. LH was up but not at surge level today. Progesterone was 1.0. I feel like I ovulated this afternoon and am 99% sure I did because I always get a really crampy ill feeling for a while when it happens. I'm guessing I surged yesterday early a.m. Clinic wants me to trigger tonight and says I'll ovulate Wed, but I'm pretty sure it's already happened. Just wondering if it hurts anything to trigger anyway.

[Anonymous]

So, to answer your question: IF you truly have already ovulated then no, it shouldn't hurt (but I don't know that it would help either)? Do you know how many follicles you have? If you have multiple mature follicles, it's possible you may not ovulate them all naturally but a trigger shot would force your body to release all of them? On the other hand, I'm thinking you're more likely to have mature follicles if you wait and go by their timing. But I have had to do ovidrel boosters at 6/7 dpo to increase progesterone so I don't think they're harmful during the luteal phase.

That said: if you haven't ovulated already and you trigger prematurely, that's not ideal. if I'm reading correctly, you went in for your monitoring appointment this morning? Did they check anything besides progesterone?

Have you done injectables before? Is it possible you're just feeling new/different follicle growth? I def was more crampy on injectables

Sorry, I hate this process. I know we're supposed to trust them but I always agonize too much over timing too

[Anonymous]

Thanks. Yes, a doctor (not my normal doctor) looked very quickly by ultrasound. He measured one on each side, and only measured one side of that follicle rather than taking the average of two measurements. I have two 22s and an 18 and a couple smaller ones that he said would not do anything. I don't doubt that the follicles were still intact at the time, but the crampy pain I felt today was a good 4-5 hours later than the bloodwork and ultrasound. I've done lots of these cycles and always feel that same crampy feeling for a couple of hours at ovulation.

They want me to do a trigger tonight, so it's not premature. It's just a question of whether it's harmful to do it on top of possible ovulation that has already happened. So I guess if it doesn't hurt anything, I will. As you say, maybe my body can't naturally release them all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks. Yes, a doctor (not my normal doctor) looked very quickly by ultrasound. He measured one on each side, and only measured one side of that follicle rather than taking the average of two measurements. I have two 22s and an 18 and a couple smaller ones that he said would not do anything. I don't doubt that the follicles were still intact at the time, but the crampy pain I felt today was a good 4-5 hours later than the bloodwork and ultrasound. I've done lots of these cycles and always feel that same crampy feeling for a couple of hours at ovulation.

They want me to do a trigger tonight, so it's not premature. It's just a question of whether it's harmful to do it on top of possible ovulation that has already happened. So I guess if it doesn't hurt anything, I will. As you say, maybe my body can't naturally release them all?

Ah sorry! Is misread / thought they were wanting you to wait and trigger on Wednesday. Yes totally go ahead and trigger - my clinic has had me trigger even after I've started surfing on my own before. I definitely don't think it can adversely affect anything

[Anonymous]

*I, surging. No surfing, sadly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*I, surging. No surfing, sadly

Thanks! Loved "surfing" also! It seemed to fit.