How Long TTC before IVF?

Fo how long were you TTC with fertility treatments before moving to IVF?

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

A littlle over 7 months.... but we have mulitple issues and IUI wouldnt help us much.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

6 months of medicated cycles:

1 medicated cycle with timed intercourse

2 medicated IUI cycle with my GYN

3 medicated iUI cycles with RE

Was on a forced break for January and part of February.

ETA: We've been TTC since Aug 06.

Message edited 2/26/2008 7:31:01 PM.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

15 months. 7 of them were with iui's

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

7 months

(out of those -3 were IUI-Clomid
1 was unmedicated IUI)

The other 3 months I had no response to the Clomid...

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

6 months on our own then 6 months under an RE. We knew as soon as we went to the RE that we would end up doing IVF b/c I have a blocked tube. I did three cycles of clomid and one cycle of injectibles - all with IUIs.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

clos eto 8 months on our own....abd then....about 18 months and that included 2 Femara cycles and a clomid cycle and then 13 iuis on clomid or Injectables before IVf ( financially we couldnt afford the IVF till then)

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Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

We did 4 medicated IUI cycles and 1 unmediated IUI. IVF was covered for us so we decided to move right to it after that.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

We were trying to conceive for a year before we moved to ivf.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

12 months of trying on our own (started testing around 9 months), did 2 cycles of unmedicated IUI's and then due to terrible sperm counts/quality we moved to IUI. So it was a total of 15 months from when we started trying to when we got our BFP

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

6 cycles total of fertility treatments before moving to IVF. 3 IUI cycles w/ clomid and 3 IUI cycles w/injectibles. Just stared BCP for IVF.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

It will end up being a little less than a year of medicated cycles before we do IVF. But we had a bunch of forced breaks and also a mental health break for me.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

Long story short unofficially TTC over 5 years officially TTC 1 year. Within that 1 year went for test and found out we have problems....then started the ball rolling for IVF.

Re: How Long TTC before IVF?

Thanks for your responses ladies. So far my 4 cycles of IF treatments have included 2 Clomid/IUI, 1 natural IUI, and 1 Follistim/IUI. This month I am on a forced medication break but hope to still do a natural IUI. I figure I might give Follistim/IUI another try in April iif necessary and then seriously consider IVF if that doesn't work out. My insurance covers IVF and I don't want to waste any more time.