Dual ovarian stimulation

Today, Sunday 7 August, day 3 of my period and a scan with Dr. Gregg.  In his own words things are looking good for this month with three follicles on my left ovary and one small one on the right.  I talked to Dr. Gregg about dual ovarian stimulation, something a friend had told me about.  She had recently frozen her eggs in the UK and her doctor tried this relatively new procedure on her. First collection is done using your natural cycle and then immediately after egg collection you start the stimulation injections again for another week before second egg collection is carried out.

This process has been seen to be quite successful in older patients such as myself with low ovarian reserve and typically the second collection has seen a high collection of eggs than the first collection, PLUS a real benefit is that there is no chance of ovulating during the second collection so that’s one less injection to take from day 6 – day 10!

I asked Dr. Greg about this to see if he had tried it with any patients before.  To my surprise he said he was all for trying this with me and infant his clinic was an early pioneer of this medical advancement and they had a high success rate!

I tried to avoid the ‘why on earth am I having to suggest it to you then!’ and stayed zen and looked at this as an opportunity to hopefully get lots of mature eggs this month.

Apparently the doctor can only tell if the second stimulation round is worth trying once the first collection has been done and he can see if there are any small follicles that might grow.  So its a waiting game now, some healthy living, and early nights so that the follicles grow.  Fingers and toes crossed.