GHOST(you seem to be the person to ask questions to)FREAKED

[MrsIVFinNYC]

OK...I have my ER tomorrow...I was going through serious pain so I went to take one of my pain pills and then 3 hours later looked at the bottle and saw it was my PROVERA!!!! What do I do? I'm sooooo unbelieveably freaked out!!!!

[T3]

I'm not Ghost.. but maybe I can give some info.

Provera is progetin that prevent follicule maturation, however your follicles are already mature. it's also bad if you took it while you were pregnant, but at this point, you're not yet. i don't know what dose you took, but I don't think i dose will do too much harm. It's just a synthetic form of progesterone that you would have to take after your egg retrieval anyways. The only problem is that it prevents ovulation which is why you take the trigger shot. I'm not sure how much provera would prevent ovulation against hcg trigger.

Call the on-call doc and see what they say.

[Ghost]

OK...I have my ER tomorrow...I was going through serious pain so I went to take one of my pain pills and then 3 hours later looked at the bottle and saw it was my PROVERA!!!! What do I do? I'm sooooo unbelieveably freaked out!!!!

Tell your RE. I'm not sure what he will decide. Your body is starting to make a lot of progesterone right now anyway, and Provera is a progestin (same family as progesterone, but very potent). It might affect uterine receptivity (better or worse?). I don't know because I've never heard of anyone taking it at this point.

Worst case is you can freeze the embryos for use in a later FET cycle (not a bad option anyway). I doubt it harms the eggs. But that's up to your doctor.

In the future, and for anyone else reading this, make sure your drugs are clearly labeled.

[MrsIVFinNYC]

Thank you so much to the both of you. I did call the on call doctor last night and they said it's OK and not an issue...I spent most of my night crying for making such a stupid mistake but I am happy that they said everything is OK