Egg Quality

mallory4284

I've heard people mention before how their fertility issues were caused by poor egg quality.... How is that determined exactly??

When we were doing our IVF cycles my dr didn't come out and say I had bad egg quality, but he said one of the reasons the eggs sometimes don't all fertilize can be because of this.... Both IVF cycles we had about 8 eggs during the retrieval and then ended up only having one make it to the blastocyst stage the first round and two during the second round....

Like I said, he never came out and said I had poor egg quality, but just wondered how anyone going through that got their diagnosis? Cause it's been in the back of my head ever since my doctor mentioned it....

mallory4284

Thanks for the article! Interesting to read through! I don't remember an FSH level being tested but honestly I had so much blood work done, I'm sure I did and just don't realize it... Reading through threads and hearing everyone else's stories (on here and the TTGP board) makes me feel very incompetent and like I totally didn't ask the right questions when we were seeing a specialist.... I have no idea what half the tests I had to do were for... I'm hoping that home insemination works so we don't have to even think about going back to our doctor.... But I'm definitely going to be able to go in there more educated and with lots more questions if we do...