Questions about ERA

[Anonymous]

Questioning doing an ERA for a couple reasons - 1) I have read it’s painful and 2) we’re doing a natural cycle FET and I feel like the variables could shift enough to not make an ETA very accurate. 2 failed fresh cycles, 1 successful FET. I really think my body doesn’t respond well to extra drugs and hormones and think that was likely more the reason my fresh cycles failed. We did conceive surprisingly on our own after the FET, but I took progesterone supplements as soon as I realized I was pregnant.
Any advice?

[Anonymous]

We did it for my second NC FET, after the first one failed. For me, it was a matter of whether we did everything we could, or if we would regret not doing it if we had another failed cycle (since we were on our last embryo). I have also heard that the “scratch” helps with implantation but your doctor may be willing to just do the scratch without the era.

[Anonymous]

I certainly wouldn't avoid it because of the pain...for me,at least, it was a just some quick pinching. No big deal at all. And according to the results, I needed a few more days of progesterone before transferring. No idea if the transfer would have worked if I hadn't done it but I sure would be kicking myself for not doing it if the transfer failed.

[Anonymous]

What does your doctor suggest? Some suggest doing the procedure after recurrent losses, others think it’s a huge racket and not worth the money or time. There are research studies that show success in women with recurrent loss, and also studies that show absolutely no difference in rate of conception following ERAs. It’s a difficult decision to make given so much conflicting information and medical perceptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does your doctor suggest? Some suggest doing the procedure after recurrent losses, others think it’s a huge racket and not worth the money or time. There are research studies that show success in women with recurrent loss, and also studies that show absolutely no difference in rate of conception following ERAs. It’s a difficult decision to make given so much conflicting information and medical perceptions.

My doctor was the one to bring it up and is strongly pushing for it. DH is a go as he thinks I would regret not doing it if the transfer fails, but I have read conflicting information online as well.

[Anonymous]

I did it twice. It was extremely painful but I have a narrow cervix. I’m glad we did it despite the cost as we only had one embryo so I was willing to do to it all. My transfer window was fine but I had signs of endometritis so did two rounds of antibiotics. My transfer was successful.

[Anonymous]

How many embryos do you have to work with and are you willing to do another retrieval? If you have one or two embryos left and are totally done with retrieval’s then yes, I would do a lot of research and strongly consider it. But if you have many more embryos or are open to doing another retrieval, then I would skip it in favor of continuing with transfers. I did some research during my infertility journey and ultimately decided against it because there just wasn’t enough science to back up that it was successful.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Still on the fence. My inner voice/gut is saying not to do the test. Logically, I know it can only help, so I don’t know why I am having such an averse reaction. We need to decide in the next couple days as my cycle has already started. It’s our last frozen embryo, but we have already been successful so if this doesn’t work, we’ll not be pursuing other treatments.

[Anonymous]

I would skip it.

[Anonymous]

I’d do it. With IVF, there is only so much you can control, so for me, I wanted to make sure I did everything that I could. No regrets.