Frozen Embryo Transfer Process (FET Process) - Timeline

Even though our frozen embryo transfer wasn't successful, I figured I would still blog about it, and hopefully this will help somebody else who is going through the same thing. 

My timeline went like this:

• Surgery on February 24th to remove placenta
• After surgery, biopsy showed endomitritis, antibiotics started for 2 weeks
• Meanwhile, during this time, had heavy period following surgery
• Endometrial biopsy on March 16 to make sure infection was gone
• Received results of biopsy on March 26, negative, infection was gone, stopped birth control pills and waited for period to start, was told it should start within 10 days
• Had very slight spotting weekend following biopsy results (28th and 31st)
• After not starting full period within 11 days of stopping BCP, I called nurse and she said that she thought the spotting I had at the end of March was my period because I was "scraped out" after surgery...didn't really make sense given the full period I had after surgery
• Waited for next period, which started April 23rd
• April 23rd - CD1 - started estrogen patch, Vivelle Dot 1 patch
• April 26th - CD4 - increased to 2 estrogen patches
• April 29th - CD7 - increased to 3 patches
• May 2nd - CD10- increased to 4 patches
• May 5th - CD13 - stayed at 4 patches
• May 6th - CD14 - labs & follicular u/s, lab results were good & lining was at 11.5
• May 7th - CD15 - decreased to 2 patches, started doxycycline 100mg, medrol 16mg and crinone 8%, continue those meds until transfer
• May 10th - CD18 - stayed at 2 patches
• May 12th - CD20 - embryo transfer, continue crinone through pregnancy tests
• May 13th - CD21 - stayed at 2 patches
• May 16th - CD24 - stayed at 2 patches
• May 19th - CD27 - stayed at 2 patches
• May 21st - CD29 - first pregnancy test, results low, hcg level 35
• May 22nd - CD30 - stayed at 2 patches
• May 23rd - CD31 - repeat lab results, we are cautiosly optimitic as hcg level doubled, repeat labs scheduled for Wednesday, May 27
• May 25th - CD33 - stayed on 2 patches
• May 27th - CD35 - lab results showed hcg level dropped to 62, chemical pregnancy

I will do a follow up post about the actual transfer, but wanted to get the timeline down first.