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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Shady Grove they monitor your cycle with transvaginal ultrasounds, so they can see how many mature follicles you have, when you will be ready to ovulate and how thick your lining is.  Once your follicles are mature enough, they instruct you to take a trigger shot that will make you ovulate within 36 hours so they can time the IUI correctly.[/quote]

My IUI experience at Dominion a few months ago (which was successful-->almost done with 1st trimester!) was similar. They took blood and did an ultrasound at each of my monitoring appointments. My LH started to rise and my estrogen increased earlier than they anticipated, so they told me to trigger on Thursday night at 7 PM and we did the IUI on Friday at 1 PM. This scenario isn't the norm, from what I've gathered. It seems it's usually IUI around 36 hours after trigger, as PP said. I wouldn't pay OOP or use my limited number of insurance attempts on an IUI without having this level of monitoring!

Incidentally, my IUI was unmedicated except for the trigger shot. It is in fact possible for this to work--for the right patient...we'd had multiple losses within the last year trying on our own, so we knew we could conceive. My RE recommended 2 unmedicated cycles to start with before moving on to Femara, but left it my choice to determine how aggressive I wanted to be at the outset. I was very wary of the risk of multiples, so I feel really fortunate this route worked for us and all is good so far.[/quote]

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