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Friday, February 16, 2007

Thanks For Your Replies!

Thank you's are due to all of you who responded with emails about my plea for menopur. One good pal offered up three vials of the elixer for me and I was able to find three boxes (15 vials) on FGS for a really really great price. The gal selling them got preggers on her 4th IVF with menopur and so I am hoping that her meds are "good luck" for me and that we'll get some good news, too. My insurance company paid for 3 GonalF 900iu pens, but after that I only had $256 worth of fertility drug benefits left. Ever. I have never had fertility drug coverage before so I am ever so grateful that a bit of this burden was taken off of my shoulders.

I'm not sure what it is about adding menopur (or repronex) that really does the trick. I may have this wrong, but isn't menopur just FSH with some LH in it? Follistim is also FSH with a hair of LH in it because it's not recombinantly produced, but is it that it just doesn't have as "much" LH as menopur? Maybe Modern Millie will pipe in with her words of wisdom and show me the light on this mysterious (and tres expensive!) substance.

I have also read that one reason that menopur works for some women is that the LH helps to improve egg quality. We haven't had problems with our numbers to this point (knock on wood, spit, toss salt) so hopefully we can still get some good numbers and improve our quality.

Last night was my last BCP and so I'm lingering on lupron til our baseline U/S on the 22nd. ON that day they'll tell me how much menopur I'll be doing each day and we'll hopefully get an antral count done.

I am praying for a good antral count at this point.

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Comments on "Thanks For Your Replies!"

 

Blogger Donna said ... (12:45 PM) : 

I have no words of wisdom, just words of encouragement and support.

 

Blogger Larisa said ... (10:46 AM) : 

I haven't taken either, but I don't think Follistim has any LH. Menopur is urinary FSH with LH - I think half and half?

Thanks for your comment on my blog...good luck with your cycle.

 

Blogger Thalia said ... (9:15 AM) : 

Follistim has no LH, it's recombinant FSH. Menopur is produced from human urine, and so has trace amounts of LH. The studies say that the pure FSH protocols overall produce better results, possibly partly because the dose is easier to control as there are a specific number of units per ml, whereas menopur can vary from vial to vial.

Nevertheless, I know different women find diff drugs work better for them. Good luck!

 

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