Anonymous
Post 08/25/2020 10:31     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
If you are freezing eggs does birth control decrease the number you can get?
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2020 07:09     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
You would think they would try harder to get you pregnant if you're shared risk?
Anonymous
Post 08/23/2020 21:05     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
Anonymous wrote:SGF uses them to manage their schedule and it's NOT in the best interest of their patients!


+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
Post 08/23/2020 19:33     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/21/2020 13:42     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/19/2020 12:07     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/18/2020 16:29     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/18/2020 15:42     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/18/2020 15:36     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
SGF uses them to manage their schedule and it's NOT in the best interest of their patients!
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2020 15:25     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
Anonymous wrote: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.


Sorry I meant SGF not GW.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2020 15:25     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/18/2020 15:14     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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
Post 08/18/2020 15:11     Subject: Re:Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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.
frankenstein202
Post 08/18/2020 15:11     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
Could you share the study please.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2020 14:55     Subject: Birth Control pills and Shady Grove
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.