Anyone else's periods change when you decided to do IVF?

[Kathy429]

Hi everyone!  I am 43 years old.  Last October my husband and I decided to see a RE to find out about doing IVF.  At the time my periods were like clockwork.  Every 23 days for 6 days.  In the past 3 months we got the money together and finally decided to go for the IVF.  In those 3 months my period changed.  It went to 19 days, then 26 days, then 19 days again.  We went for our outside bloodwork for infectious disease and genetic stuff and I am waiting for AF to come so I can go get my baseline bloodwork done.  I'm waiting.  I am worrying that maybe the big M is staring me right in the face...MENOPAUSE.  I want this cycle so bad and I am hoping and wishing AF will show up so I can at least have the chance to do this cycle.  Has anyone else ever been in this situation?  I am hoping I am just worrying about nothing.

Best wishes to all you lovely ladies who are on this baby journey :)

[Kathy429]

I have only one chance because of the money.  I am hoping with all of my being to have at least one super duper egg.  Good luck to you!

[IM43]

I've never done IVF, but only started really trying to get pregnant at 42.  My cycle was like clockwork at that time, every 26 days with AF for 5 days.  I started temping and using opk's and shockingly discovered that I wasn't O'ing every month, but most months.  At 43 things started going downhill and fast!  Your cycles that are 19 days, I can almost guarantee if you were temping, you did not ovulate.  Now at 44, almost 45, things are even more of a mess and I have only ovulated 3 times in the last year and one of those times I did a progesterone test and my doc said it was so low that she can't consider that I O'd (even though my temp says I did).  I still get what I would consider heavy spotting (no O) and have just started counting that as cd1.

I am certainly not telling you this to get you bummed out, but waste not another moment!  If you want to try IVF with your own eggs, do it and do it immediately.  I just had no idea that menopause could come so early!  I am not considered to be officially in menopause, since you have to go with no bleeding for 12 full months, but there certainly doesn't seem to be any eggs in sight.  I don't really bother to do opk's any more because they are almost always ++, this is of course because menopausal women have high lh and fsh for the rest of our lives.

Good luck to you, I hope you get your miracle and don't give up until there is no more possibility, but go, go , go!!

Sharon