Ovidrel - to take or not to take

[ladyspain]

My u/s today showed me that i have 4 mature eggs, which is good!.  The bad news - my ER group doesn't like it when there are too many eggs--they prefer their patients to only have single pregnancies, not multiples...to allow a multiple pregnancy would mess with their ratings or whatever (all ridiculous!).   SO - i was told by my doctor that i have two options. One - "cancel" the remainder of this month's treatments (aka, no ovidrel shot and no IC 'til the next cycle).  Or two - give myself the ovidrel shot, hope for less than four fertilized eggs, and " we'll talk about reductions later on" (in case I did get pregnant w/ four fertilized eggs).

My question to you all - what do you think would happen if I just don't take the ovidrel shot?   I have PCOS, so my thought was that I'm really unpredictable/inconsistent when I ovulate anyways--so maybe if I just didn't take the shot, there's a better chance that I'd get pregnant, but just maybe not with 4 babies??   I'm torn... we've been trying for 3 years... but four just sounds so overwhelming!

[Heather5]

My RE is OK with 3 or 4 max, but I know many women on here trigger with even more than that. By the way, we also had the "would you be OK with a reduction if needed" talk. It's totally up to you if you want to do this or not...but if it was me, I'd probably take the chance! Good luck!

[wannabmombad]

I had the exact same thing happen to me this cycle.  My RE gave me my injection.  He said the probablility of having twins is 10-20% and more than that is less than 1%.  i went for it and got a bfp, but my first beta was only 30.  I am waiting to hear what my second beta is.  Good luck and I would go for it.

[ladyspain]

Thanks ladies...   i decided to take the plunge and give myself the ovidrel... even if the outcome is four (or more) babies -- nothing's worse than 3 years of trying with no success...  So i choose to trust God to give me no more than I can handle, and we'll see how it goes.

I appreciate your comments, and pray your own journeys are short and relatively stress-free!

[docsaf]

Good luck! Earlier this week I had a similar dilemma - 5 eggs all maturing at the same rate. I thought that was perfect until my RE told me he would not do an IUI if there were more than 4 - and he was borderline on 4. He asked me if me and my DH would be able to go through with selective reduction if we got pg with 3+. This is a very hard concept for me to consider when we've trying for many months, always have good numbers, and yet I have not gotten pg even once. He decreased the dosage, and then I skipped the injections a couple of nights, and he gave me half a trigger shot so that yesterday he estimated 2 would definitely release, 1 had an 80% chance of releasing, and 2 had a 30% chance of releasing. It lead to many interesting discussions with my RE and my DH. I was more concerned with missing this opportunity than being faced with deciding what I would do if "too many" fertilized. Good luck and SSBD!

[Tiggywnks]

I say take the chance too, I had IVF the back end of 2006 & in total produced 7 eggs which they took out but when they looked closer only 5 were okay to use as the other 2 were hollow and empty, then when they put the 4 eggs together with the sperm in the incubator over night  we could only use 2 as the other 2 had to much DNA which meant 2 sperms had gone into each egg and they can not use when that happens.

Not sure if any help

Tiggy :)