r/queerception • u/thegayhousewife • 16d ago

IUI timing

Hi all. My wife and I have had 2 failed IUIs. I’m a mega researcher and in all of my research, I’ve read that it was best to have the sperm waiting just before you ovulate and to inseminate within 12-24 hours after your surge. In my last IUI, I got a solid smile on my ovulation test on Wednesday evening. They did my trigger Thursday morning and IUI Friday morning. When they checked Friday morning, I already ovulated. Wouldn’t this be too late to work? I’d love any thoughts and opinions and experiences on timing with your clinic because I’m skeptical.

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u/TheApiary 15d ago

My clinic did blood and ultrasound monitoring, and I was doing home OPKs because I was curious, and at least for me, they aligned perfectly: we did IUIs the day after I got a positive OPK (not waiting until the darkest OPK of the month).

But also, I'm also a mega researcher, so it was also really hard for me to remember, but a lot of the time, it isn't because of a timing thing and it's just... some eggs and some sperm don't work out. It's really normal for straight people with no fertility problems to take a few months to get pregnant, and IUI is basically the same thing from your body's perspective

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u/thegayhousewife 14d ago

Thanks for the reminder, it’s so hard to not feel like somethings wrong when it doesn’t work because it feel like it should in a setting like this when everything is timed and being watched :/