Trigger shot with cancelled IVF cycle

Hi all,

Newish here and mostly a lurker before that, but appreciate all the post making this feel less lonely.

There may be some triggering topics in here for some about miscarriages and pregnancy loss.

Long post, but the background that you’re probably all looking for. I’m a 40yo with DOR (amh 0.25, FSH 8.5), endo that was just diagnosed after a lap+ hysteroscopy in the summer and a prior history of multiple miscarriages and a very late IUFD in a previous marriage.

So, we just cancelled my first IVF cycle today after 14 days of stimulation with microdose lupron 10 units twice daily, 150 units of Menopur and 300 units of gonal-f. We did what I understand to be a fully medicated cycle with estrace/depo induction following OCPs, with testosterone augmentation prior. They pulled out all the stops right from the get go because we only have fertility coverage for one cycle.

So r ight now I have one follicle that is 18mm, one that is 16 and two that are 14 (we started with 8 at rest initially). My estrogen is 919 pg/ml and my progesterone is 0.30 ng/ml. I’ve had fairly uneven growth throughout this cycle so we almost called it two days ago, but I don’t think any of us had a great feeling that ER would go well after such seesawing back and forth. The plan is to try one more cycle next year to see if we get a better (more even) response and if not, we’ll push it until everything is mature and roll the dice with the ER anyway. Side note: we also noticed a regrowth of a fibroid that we thought was taken care of this summer, so now we have that to tackle at some point too.

I guess all that is to say, after talking today with my RE, we’re going to do 150 of Menopur tonight (because that’s what I have left) in the hopes that second follicle gets a little boost, and then trigger tomorrow on the small chance that we might get pregnant the old fashioned way. I declined a conversion to IUI because of the fibroid which lowers implantation chances significantly and we have no male factor infertility. Didn’t seem worth the money imo.

Has anyone else done this after a cancelled cycle? Any luck?