Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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Anonymous
| My new RE shared a study released recently stating birth control pills decrease chances of success with IVF. I wish I knew tha before wasting time and money at shady grove. |
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| Could you share the study please. |
Anonymous
| I think people have success with Shady Grove. For what it is worth, I had an IVF consult at Shady Grove and at Dominion. Shady Grove recommended birth control before starting an IVF cycle and Dominion recommended estrogen pills only. Dominion explained that birth control suppresses the ovaries and why would you want to do that before starting IVF? It made sense to me, so I went with Dominion instead. The best thing I did was get a second opinion on my prescribed treatment, especially since a consult is fairly inexpensive, all things considered. |
Anonymous
| Shady Grove made me use birth control pills with every cycle. Every cycle I would then get a large cyst, my estrogen would skyrocket, and then they'd cancel the cycle. Rinse repeat. I'm embarrassed to say how many cycles I did there and how much money I spent before switching to a clinic that did not require bcps. |
Anonymous
| The study you are referring to is very new, so no one, including your doctor, could have known about that. Additionally it looked at people on bcps for a pretty long time, I think at least 17 days, so not sure it’s 100% translatable to a shorter time period. That being said I was oversupressed on bcps in my first round of IVF (not at GW), but my second round with estrogen priming yielded basically the same result. By the time I made my way to GW for round 3, my doctor didn’t even suggest Bcps. I’ll be curious to see if this article changes the practices of clinics who like to use bcps. I suspect it may not because of the long duration that people were on bcp. I think this was previously known to cause issues, which is why bcps were normally limited to 10-14 days. |
Anonymous
Sorry I meant SGF not GW. |
Anonymous
| SGF uses them to manage their schedule and it's NOT in the best interest of their patients! |
Anonymous
| Yes, SGF pushes BCP on patients with diminished ovarian reserve that have no business being on BCP. I am pretty severely DOR and would not have done BCP if I had cycled at SGF (at least according to the initial consult I had, they said estrace priming start), but friends with only slightly better numbers had disastrous cycles after BCP starts. BCP is fine for most patients with normal ovarian reserve, but anyone with DOR should run from a clinic insisting on BCP. |
Anonymous
| My RE at SGF didn't give me a choice and I questioned the use of birth control during initial consultation about IVF. She basically said they have to use them due to the volume of patients they have. |
Anonymous
| I requested not to use them before my last FET cycle and received no push-back (SGF). It did make scheduling a bit trickier, but it wasn't that big of a deal. |
Anonymous
| I had BCP for my first cycle at Shady Grove. They over-suppressed me and the doc took me off of them for the 2nd, which was also a bust. I kiind of knew they were going to be bad for me, but I knew SG wouldn't divert from its protocol on the first round. I was old any way so the chance of my conceiving was poor. |
Anonymous
| I'm 45 and Shady Grove gave me a chance with my own eggs but still insisted on birth control pills then cancelled my cycle after 7 days of stims and gave me the donor egg speech. The foolish thing is I called another clinic and they basically told me Shady Grove was just stealing my money?? |
Anonymous
+1. My nurse at SG was able to override their policy for me so I didn't have to take BCPs after my first cycle went really badly (I was shared risk). |
Anonymous
| You would think they would try harder to get you pregnant if you're shared risk? |
Anonymous
| If you are freezing eggs does birth control decrease the number you can get? |