Lupron not suppressing?

[pickel]

I have been on Lupron for 8 days and went in for my baseline yesterday and they said my estrogen and progesterone are elevated and I have to stay on Lupron another week and go back in for a baseline. Also sounds like this will delay everything for another week and I’m not sure how it effects our donor. Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea what causes this to happen?

[seeyalater52]

I’m sorry the Lupron isn’t suppressing you properly yet! Are you doing a fresh donation (like is the donor doing a retrieval right now meant to be timed with this transfer) and hoping to do a fresh transfer? It may be that you end up needing to convert this to a frozen cycle depending on what stage the donor is currently at and how quickly you’re able to be ready for a transfer. If donor hasn’t started meds yet it’s possible you might be able to just delay the whole thing.

[pickel]

We’re doing a fresh transfer but the donor hasn’t started stims yet. She had to work out her work schedule to start stims on 12/29 so I don’t know if she’ll be able to delay another week. I really don’t want to do a FET, only because the odds of success go down significantly for some reason. Ugh. Stupid body. I thought we were on the road of sure success and it just goes to show you, you can’t really count on anything going as it should in this journey.

[seeyalater52]

pickel I’m sorry. The ups and downs of this process are so, so difficult. I hope there’s a way to work around this timing issue.

[icedcoffee]

I’m sorry. I don’t know a lot about this, but I wanted to add that FETs actually don’t reduce success rates. I was supposed to do a fresh transfer for my last cycle but it got cancelled because my progesterone levels were too high. They changed it to a FET and my RE assured me that the technology has gotten so good that they actually have better success with FET now because they can be 100% sure your body is at a good point to receive the embryo. So basically...I wouldn’t worry too much about it being converted to a FET if that does indeed happen.

I’m sorry for the setback though. Those are always incredibly disappointing and frustrating.

[shoeless]

Hi Pickle- I’m sorry the Lupron isn’t doing it’s job quickly. I’ll echo what others have said that at most clinics FET and fresh rates are the same. I’ve always done FET and out of 5 transfers I’ve had 3 implant. The two that didn’t work were the two transfers where I didn’t prime the month before (I don’t get a period so the priming seems key for me). Hang in there and fingers crossed for you

[stellelinds25]

I'm sorry things aren't going so well right now. I had the exact opposite problem with Lupron that is suppressed me TOO much and caused our retrieval to be cancelled. I've actually read that a lot of clinics require FET because they say they have better success rates. My clinic will only do a fresh transfer if everything is completely perfect, so I'm bracing myself for a FET. Crossing my fingers and hoping all goes as scheduled!

[pickel]

Thank you guys! I have been able to read your responses, but wasn't able to log back in until today. The live birth rate on the SART website for my clinic says 88% for fresh transfer and 48% for FET. I haven't had a chance to discuss this with my clinic but they said there was no scenario where we wouldn't be able to do a fresh transfer. As of now, we are not delayed because they said they built in extra time to respond to the Lupron (whew!). But if I'm still not responding by Friday, we'll probably be looking at some delay.

Thank you all again!! It is so nice to have somewhere to go to talk about this stuff.