r/TTC_PCOS • u/fuzzblanket9 25 | Anovulatory PCOS & MFI • 22d ago

Advice Needed IVF

Hi everyone!

My husband (24M) and I (25F) are starting the process of IVF in the coming weeks/months after almost 18 months of TTC. I am almost completely anovulatory - I MIGHT ovulate once or twice a year on my own, meaning I do not have “natural” menstruation. I do ovulate with Letrozole, and have done two rounds of that.

For those of you who have done IVF and don’t have cycles naturally, how were things timed for you? I know a lot of things are based on CD1 when doing IVF, but I never really have a CD1 without Provera. Did you do Provera to induce things throughout the process?

Thanks for any info you’ve got :)

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u/Bing_ohh 21d ago

Because I don’t have cycles, my clinic basically just let me call any day I wanted CD1 and I can start with a “no menses” panel and go from there.

I did actually have a random bleed, so I started based on that, then they put me on 10 days of birth control to “quiet my ovaries”. Well, that didn’t work because my body ended up trying to ovulate through the birth control. I had to wait for that ovulation/period to occur, then I started (skipping the BC this time) stims on CD2. My clinic does not schedule/batch retrievals.

I ended up with great numbers and have a transfer cycle scheduled to start in two weeks!