IVF Injection Name List: What Lupride, Gestone, Progesterone and Enoxaparin Actually Do

Written and medically reviewed by Dr. Shweta Agarwal, MBBS, DGO Last updated: July 2026

Information on this page is educational and does not replace a medical consultation. Never start, stop, or change a dose based on anything you read online — including this page. Your prescription is specific to you.

Aansh Hospital & IVF Center is a government-registered Level-2 ART clinic (Reg. No. MH/AC/2024/15441/L2/Chandrapur/132), part of a growing network of fertility centers across Vidarbha and northern Telangana — but unlike a chain, where each centre's doctors decide independently, Dr. Shweta Agarwal holds final treatment authority for every cycle, at every location. Our headquarters and in-house embryology lab are in Chandrapur. Our government ART registration covers IVF, ICSI, and embryo transfer — all performed on-site under the clinical leadership of Dr. Shweta Agarwal and embryology led by Aayush Agarwal, Ph.D..

Almost every patient does the same thing on the evening of their first IVF prescription: they type the brand names into Google. And what comes back is confusing. Search "Lupride injection" and the top results are pharmacy database pages listing prostate cancer and endometriosis as the indication — which is medically correct and completely alarming if you are doing IVF. Search "IVF injection name list" and you get pages listing American brands (Gonal-F, Follistim, Ovidrel, Lupron) that are not what is written on your slip.

This guide fixes both problems. It maps the brand names actually dispensed in India to their generic molecules, to the stage of the cycle they belong to, and to the reason your doctor chose them. Read it alongside the week-by-week IVF cycle timeline, which explains the order in which these appear.

Before the list: how to read any IVF box (brand name vs salt name)

No list can cover every Indian brand — the same molecule is sold under a dozen names, and clinics in Chandrapur, Nagpur, Yavatmal and Hyderabad each stock different ones. So the single most useful skill is reading the box itself.

On every Indian pack, under or beside the large brand name, smaller text gives the composition — the generic molecule, often called the "salt". Lupride and Luprocare both read leuprolide acetate. Clexane and Evaparin both read enoxaparin sodium. Find that line and three questions answer themselves: which group below does this belong to, is it the same molecule I was given last cycle under a different brand, and am I about to take the same molecule twice from two prescriptions.

If you cannot find the composition line, photograph the box and send it to your clinic before injecting. We would far rather answer that message than have a patient guess.

ivf injection full form in hindi — what the abbreviations on your slip mean

Prescriptions are written in abbreviations, which is its own barrier:

• FSH — follicle-stimulating hormone; grows the follicles that contain eggs.
• LH — luteinising hormone; the natural surge that releases an egg, which IVF aims to control.
• hMG — human menopausal gonadotropin; a preparation with both FSH and LH activity.
• hCG — human chorionic gonadotropin; acts like an LH surge and is used as the trigger.
• GnRH — gonadotropin-releasing hormone; agonists and antagonists of it are the two ways of preventing premature ovulation.
• IM — intramuscular (into muscle). SC — subcutaneous (under the skin).

There is no single medicine called "the IVF injection". The phrase covers everything below.

IVF injection name list — the medicines used in India, group by group

Brand families in India can contain more than one strength, route, and formulation, so treat this as a map, not a substitute for your own pack insert — always match the exact pack in your hand to your prescription. No patient receives everything on this list. A straightforward antagonist-protocol cycle may involve only stimulation injections, an antagonist, a trigger, and progesterone.

आईवीएफ में कुल कितने इंजेक्शन लगते हैं? (How many injections in one IVF cycle?)

There is no fixed number, and any count you see quoted online should not be used to compare clinics or protocols. It depends on how many days of stimulation your ovaries need, whether your protocol is antagonist or agonist, and whether progesterone support is given by injection or as a vaginal capsule or gel — the vaginal route removes a substantial number of injections from the cycle for patients who choose it. Your team will give you a written day-by-day chart at the start of stimulation. If your chart and your prescription do not match, ask before injecting.

आईवीएफ में ल्यूप्राइड इंजेक्शन का क्या उपयोग है? — Lupride injection in IVF

Generic name: leuprolide acetate. Class: GnRH agonist.

Lupride does something that sounds contradictory: it first stimulates the pituitary gland, then — with continued dosing — shuts it down. That temporary shutdown is exactly what a "long protocol" or "down-regulation protocol" needs, because it stops your own body from releasing eggs on its own schedule and hands timing control to the clinic.

Lupride is used in IVF in three quite different ways:

1. Down-regulation (long protocol) — daily low-dose injections, often started in the cycle before stimulation, to suppress the pituitary before stimulation begins.
2. Agonist trigger — a single dose used instead of an hCG trigger for final egg maturation. It works by prompting your own pituitary to release a short surge of LH and FSH, which is why it is used in antagonist cycles, where the pituitary can still respond — not after the deep suppression of a long-agonist protocol. It is chosen mainly to reduce the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). Because the resulting hormone support is short-lived, an agonist trigger changes what luteal support is needed afterwards, and many such cycles are managed as freeze-all with a later frozen transfer. That decision is your doctor's, based on your response.
3. Depot form (Lupride Depot 3.75 mg) — a long-acting depot injection, used in selected cases as pre-treatment to suppress hormone-dependent disease such as endometriosis before an IVF cycle. It is not a routine part of stimulation, and its effects last considerably longer than the daily low-dose form.

Why does the leaflet mention prostate cancer or endometriosis? Because leuprolide is licensed for several hormone-dependent conditions and your pack's leaflet lists all of them. The molecule works by suppressing sex hormones — useful in hormone-sensitive cancers, useful in endometriosis, and useful for a short, controlled pause in IVF. Being prescribed Lupride carries no implication that you have cancer.

ल्यूप्राइड इंजेक्शन के क्या दुष्प्रभाव हैं? (Lupride side effects): because it lowers oestrogen, patients commonly report hot flushes, headache, mood changes, vaginal dryness, and injection-site soreness. These are dose- and duration-dependent; with the low daily doses used inside an IVF protocol they typically ease after the drug is stopped, while depot preparations can take considerably longer to wear off. Report severe headache, visual disturbance, or any severe reaction to the clinic immediately.

ivf m injection uses in hindi — IVF-M is a brand, not a category

This is one of the most-mistyped searches in the whole cluster, and the answer surprises people: IVF-M (and IVF-M HP) is the brand name of a specific stimulation injection — a menotrophin, i.e. an hMG preparation with FSH and LH activity — not a collective term for "the medicines used in IVF". If IVF-M is on your slip, it belongs in the stimulation row of the table above: it is one of the daily injections that grows your follicles.

deca injection uses in ivf in hindi — check the ingredient before you use it

"Deca" is genuinely ambiguous at the pharmacy counter and the two possibilities are not remotely similar:

• Decapeptyl (triptorelin) is a GnRH agonist — the same class as Lupride — and is genuinely used in IVF. Short-acting and depot preparations of triptorelin have different roles, strengths, routes and storage instructions, so they are not interchangeable with each other or with leuprolide.
• Deca-Durabolin (nandrolone decanoate) is an anabolic androgen. It is not an IVF medicine and has no place in a fertility protocol. Exogenous anabolic steroids can suppress a man's own sperm production, so if any man in a couple undergoing fertility treatment is using an anabolic steroid — from a gym rather than a doctor — tell the fertility specialist. It changes the interpretation of a semen analysis and the plan. See also lifestyle and male fertility.

आईवीएफ में जेस्टोन इंजेक्शन का क्या उपयोग है? — Gestone injection in IVF

Generic name: progesterone. Gestone is the oil-based intramuscular preparation; Aquagest is an aqueous (water-based) progesterone injection whose Indian pack is labelled for intramuscular and subcutaneous use, so the route must follow the exact instruction on your prescription. Other brands differ again — check the pack, not the brand family.

Gestone delivers progesterone — the hormone that converts the uterine lining into a state that can accept an embryo, and then helps hold it stable in early pregnancy. It is prescribed as luteal phase support. In a stimulated cycle, the combination of ovarian stimulation, pituitary suppression, and the aspiration of the follicles at egg retrieval can leave the corpus luteum unable to produce progesterone reliably; in a fully programmed frozen transfer cycle there is no ovulation and therefore no corpus luteum at all, so all of the progesterone has to be given as medication. That is why supplementation in these cycles is not optional.

Gestone vs vaginal progesterone (Susten 200/400, Naturogest, progesterone gel): both routes are clinically acceptable, and the choice depends on your protocol, your tolerance, and whether attending for a daily IM injection is practical. Neither is universally "stronger" — ask your doctor why yours was chosen.

Practical points for progesterone injections:

• Route depends on the product: oil-based progesterone is intramuscular and needs a trained person and a correctly selected IM site; some aqueous preparations are licensed for subcutaneous use. Follow the teaching you were given for your exact product.
• Oil preparations are thick. Warming the ampoule between the palms and injecting slowly reduces discomfort.
• Rotate sides and apply gentle pressure afterwards; lumps and tenderness at the site are common with repeated dosing.
• Oil bases such as sesame or arachis (peanut) oil are used in some products — tell your doctor about any nut or sesame allergy before the first dose.

प्रोजेस्टेरोन इंजेक्शन कब लगाया जाता है? — progesterone injection uses and timing in IVF

Progesterone support is started around the time of egg retrieval in a fresh cycle — current ESHRE guidance describes a window from the evening of retrieval up to about two days afterwards — and a set number of days before transfer in a programmed frozen cycle, so that the lining and the embryo are in step. It is then continued at least until the pregnancy test. If the test is positive, how much longer it continues differs between a fresh IVF cycle and a programmed frozen transfer, and your clinic will tell you the stop date. Do not stop progesterone on your own because of spotting, a home test, or how you feel — in a programmed cycle there is no natural source to fall back on.

progesterone gel ivf discharge in hindi: a waxy or lumpy white vaginal discharge with progesterone gel or capsules is the leftover base material, not an infection and not the medicine falling out. It does not mean the dose has failed. Foul-smelling discharge, itching, or burning is a different matter — call the clinic.

Duphaston (dydrogesterone) and Susten 400 in IVF

Duphaston is oral dydrogesterone, a progestogen taken as a tablet; Susten 400 is a micronised progesterone capsule that may be prescribed orally or vaginally depending on the instruction. Both are used as part of luteal or early-pregnancy support in selected protocols. The critical instruction is the route: a capsule meant to be inserted vaginally will not work the same way if swallowed. If your prescription does not clearly say oral or vaginal, ask — do not assume.

Estrogel uses in IVF — estrogen support

Estrogel is estradiol in a gel applied to the skin (Progynova is the tablet form, and patches also exist). Its job is to build the endometrium during a medicated frozen embryo transfer cycle, where no natural follicle is producing oestrogen. Your lining is measured on scan, and the dose or duration may be adjusted before a transfer date is set. This is also one of the medicines used in thin endometrium management. Apply to clean, dry skin as directed, let it dry, and wash your hands — transfer of the gel to a child or partner by skin contact is the one avoidable risk here.

Enoxaparin (Clexane, Evaparin) in IVF — who actually needs it

Generic name: enoxaparin sodium, a low-molecular-weight heparin (a blood thinner), given as a small subcutaneous injection into the abdominal fat.

Enoxaparin is prescribed in fertility and pregnancy care after an individualised assessment of clotting and bleeding risk — not automatically because one test came back abnormal. The situations where it is genuinely considered include antiphospholipid syndrome, a personal history of venous thromboembolism, and thromboprophylaxis where a formal risk assessment calls for it, such as in severe or critical OHSS, where RCOG guidance recommends thromboprophylaxis. Note that a finding of inherited thrombophilia on its own is not a reason to start it for pregnancy loss: ESHRE's recurrent pregnancy loss guideline advises against antithrombotic prophylaxis for hereditary thrombophilia unless it is needed to prevent venous thromboembolism or is part of a research setting.

What it is not is a general "implantation booster". Adding heparin routinely for unexplained recurrent implantation failure or unexplained recurrent miscarriage is not supported by current evidence — ASRM's committee opinion on recurrent implantation failure finds the evidence for routine anticoagulation insufficient. Bruising at the injection site is expected; unusual bleeding, black stools, or any fall or injury while on it should be reported urgently.

If enoxaparin is on your prescription, you are entitled to ask a simple question: what diagnosis or risk assessment supports this? A good clinic will show you the reasoning and the reports.

Intralipid infusion — be cautious, and be told the truth

Intralipid is an intravenous lipid emulsion, originally a nutrition product, offered by some centres on a proposed immune-modulating rationale for repeated implantation failure or miscarriage. The honest position is that the evidence is insufficient to show it improves implantation or live birth — the UK regulator, the HFEA, currently rates immunological tests and treatments as add-ons with insufficient moderate or high-quality evidence — and it carries the ordinary risks of an intravenous infusion, including allergic and infusion reactions. It is an unproven add-on, not standard care, and no patient should be told otherwise or charged for it as a routine part of an IVF package. Any clinic that sells it as standard should be asked for the trial data.

The same standard applies to every add-on: if a medicine adds cost, it should also add evidence. This is a useful lens for reading any quotation — see what is included in an IVF package and where hidden costs appear.

ivf injection kaha lagta hai — route, timing and missed doses

The route is a property of the product, not of the category. Broadly, subcutaneous injections (into the fat, commonly the lower abdomen) cover most stimulation pens, antagonists, several trigger preparations and enoxaparin, and are usually self-administered at home after the nursing team has demonstrated that specific product. Oil-based progesterone and some other preparations are intramuscular and should be given by a trained person. You should never leave the clinic without a demonstration, a written schedule, and a number to call. The day-to-day experience of the injections — how many, how they feel, and the daily routine — is covered in our IVF injections day-by-day guide.

If you miss a dose or take it late: call the clinic before doing anything. Do not double the next dose and do not silently skip it. The correct action differs completely by medicine — a missed antagonist dose carries a different risk (premature ovulation) from a missed progesterone dose — and the trigger injection has no flexibility at all, because egg retrieval is booked around it.

Storage: storage requirements differ sharply by product and even between presentations of the same brand — some gonadotropins are refrigerated and must never be frozen, others are stable at room temperature until reconstitution, and several agonist and antagonist products have their own limits. There is no single rule for "IVF injections". Follow the exact instruction on your own pack, keep the carton, and ask the pharmacist to confirm at the counter.

This matters practically in Vidarbha, where patients travel several hours home from Chandrapur to Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Adilabad and beyond. Ask the pharmacy to pack for the journey you actually have, keep the bag out of direct sun, and do not let vials rest against ice, which can damage a medicine as surely as heat. If you suspect a medicine has been too warm or has frozen — a power cut, a hot vehicle, a long delay — do not guess. Call the dispensing pharmacy or the clinic with the product name, how long it was out of range, and the temperature if you know it, and let them decide whether it is still usable.

ivf injection side effects in hindi — what to expect and what needs urgent care

Side effects belong to the specific medicine, not to "IVF injections" as a block:

• Stimulation injections (FSH/hMG): bloating, mild abdominal discomfort, breast tenderness, tiredness, and injection-site redness. Fluid retention during stimulation is common, and is what most patients are describing when they mention weight gain in a cycle.
• GnRH agonists (Lupride): hot flushes, headache, mood changes, vaginal dryness — the effects of temporarily low oestrogen.
• Progesterone: drowsiness, breast tenderness, bloating; injection-site lumps with IM oil; a waxy discharge with vaginal preparations.
• Enoxaparin: bruising and soreness at the injection site.

Needs urgent, in-person assessment — do not wait, and do not rely on a message: rapidly increasing abdominal swelling, severe abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, breathlessness, or a marked drop in urine output, which can indicate OHSS (ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome); calf pain or swelling; severe headache with visual disturbance; or any signs of an allergic reaction. Call +91 80056 85160 and come in — anything more than mild OHSS needs to be examined face to face, as RCOG guidance advises.

What do IVF medicines cost?

Medicine needs differ between patients on the same protocol — they depend on ovarian reserve, previous response, diagnosis and the individualised plan, not on age alone. That is why a medicine figure quoted in isolation cannot be compared with anything. At Aansh, a full IVF cycle typically ranges from ₹1,20,000 to ₹2,40,000 depending on protocol, medications and add-ons, with 0% EMI available; the breakdown is on our costs and EMI page, and your own estimate is confirmed in writing after evaluation. If a quotation you are comparing looks unusually low, ask which medicines and how many days of stimulation it assumes.

Talk to us before you change anything

If you are holding a prescription you do not fully understand, or a quotation with medicines you have never heard of, bring it to us. Our team will explain each line — what it is, why it is there, and what it costs — in Marathi, Hindi, or English.

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