Any of you ladies have any experience with uterine scraping prior to transfer? Success?
I attached a link to an article. I have never had any experience with this, and given the fact that this is kind of it, Im suggesting it to the clinic.
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Any info would be greatly appreciated.
No experience but I assume it's basically like a D&C?
ReplyDeleteMy only concern is that in D&Cs there is a risk of scar tissue (very low percentage though) - and I suppose the same could be true with the scraping as well. But again, it's probably a very small chance. Most are fine after D&Cs.
From what I've read, it's more like a few nics in the ute prior to transfer.. Like minutes before.
DeleteI thought the article was saying the scraping was done in the cycle before, as in the month before... Very interesting though!
ReplyDeleteI read a bunch of comments of people with success. I think you are right on the timing though. I am seriously like a brain dead zombie right now with zero comprehension.
ReplyDeleteI've read about the timing being right before transfer, too!Conceptually, I imagined the doc creating a tiny fissure in the endometrium allowing a space to implant - though that has lots of holes in the reasoning... It makes a lot more sense to me to do it then, rather than the month prior. What would that do? You just shed that lining anyway.
DeleteI thought I read somewhere that it's like 5 mins before. I don't even know anymore... I
DeleteWas probably reading the back of a shampoo bottle making up whatever I want to hear. ;)
Wasn't your uterus just scraped out with your surgery? Couldn't it act the same?
ReplyDeleteLol... I'm calling you dr Erin from now on. I Sent the dr an email like a psycho... She replied that I had the ultimate scraping. I'm crazy. At a certain point, I think it's okay to be that girl.
DeleteHaha! I think you are entitled to be a little crazy. Aren't we all, just a little bit? You are only trying to do EVERY little thing you can to increase your chance of success. I am with you on that! As always, good luck!
DeleteVery interesting. We have to use a surrogate and I don't think I will ask her to do that though. I already feel like I am putting her through so much.
ReplyDelete"Uterine scraping"...could they have given it a worse name? I'm not sure it's the same thing, but my RE gave me an endometrial biopsy in the cycle preceding my first IVF with the rationale that slight trauma to the lining makes it grow back better and stickier for the embryo to implant. I don't remember exactly when but it was done somewhere between stopping BCPs and starting stims...I was still on Lupron at the time. Anyway, I don't know if it would have worked since we were converted to IUI but it really wasn't that bad. I took an Advil an hour or two before, and it was basically just like an IUI, since they insert a catheter to do a little quick suctioning of a few spots. If you Google it you will scare the crap out of yourself with people talking about how it was the worst pain they've ever felt, but for me it really was nothing. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteA girl in my RESOLVE group had it done a few weeks before her frozen transfer. Hopefully it works for her!
ReplyDeleteI've had the endometrial scrape done prior to one of my transfers. It was a really simple thing, was a bit uncomfortable but only took a few minutes. The Dr just basically scrapes a small section of your lining (mine was done in the month prior) and then after you get your period when the lining grows back is when you are supposed to have the transfer. The small scraping is supposed to release some enzymes which make the endometrium grow back better. It didn't work for us, but then we were kind of clutching at straws anyway because our problem was really an embryo quality problem, not a lining issue. It's an easy thing to try and no risks so worth discussing with your Dr anyway. :)
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