Gonal-f dosing?

Michelle 💙 • Happily married 💑 GKB 6/5/19 💙 #2 due 1/15/22 💜🤱🏻Registered Nurse 👩🏻‍⚕️

I will be starting my first IVF round in July and I am questioning the gonal-f dosing. The nurse said I would be taking 300iu/ day. 150 in the am and 150 in the pm. I am 25 year old with unexplained infertility. My husband and I have been trying for 2 years now without any explanation to why we’ve not gotten pregnant. All tests are normal. I’ve seen much lower doses of people on gonal-f and I’m terrified of overstimulating.

What was your starting dose?

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Je

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It really is different for everyone. I am 27, all normal labs/levels and for my first cycle of ivf I was on 200 of follistim (basically same as gonal f) and 150 of menopur and I didn’t respond well at all which was a shock to all of us. This cycle I am on 350 follistim and still 150 menopur and it’s working perfectly.

sa

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I start at 225 in pm . And increase to 300 . Than after they saw The follicles growing fast they reduced it to 150. They will reduce if they see the follicles growing. Don’t worry about it the doctor does this all day. They will reduce if they have to.

Mi

Michelle 💙 • May 19, 2018
That makes me feel better. Thank you!!!

Ta

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Everyone’s dose is different actually. It all depends on your hospital. I did Menopur 225iu for 5 days, alternate 225iu and 150iu for 4 days, and 75iu on the last day. Trigger shot is tonight and retrieval on Monday

Ta

Tammy • Mar 11, 2019
Oh I didn’t look at the time stamp 🤦🏽‍♀️. Congratulations and thanks for the good wishes❤️

Mi

Michelle 💙 • Mar 10, 2019
Thanks for your reply Tammy! We actually did IVF last August/September and I’m now 28 weeks pregnant with our baby boy. I hope it works for you!! ❤️😊

El

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Hi. I have always done 300 Gonal-f and 300 Menopur for my cycles. I have a pretty high BMI and advanced endometriosis on both ovaries though and don’t respond well to the stim drugs.

Ka

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I’m starting that tonight. Was supposed to start at 225 but when I went for my scan on Tuesday they already reduced it to 150, so don’t worry they will adjust as needed!

Sh

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100iu a day then 125iu a day back to 100iu then the last day before trigger I did 150iu I only got 10 eggs but we were male factor

Sh

Shelby • May 18, 2018
Yea I was 10 days but that’s what they told me too I thought it was going to take longer because it seemed like my follicles were slow but they went faster towards the end

Mi

Michelle 💙 • May 18, 2018
How many days all together did you do them? They told me it could change depending on follicles but that usually around 10 days.