IVF statistic question

suntoto

I was having a great chat with one of my IRL friends who has gone through 4 IVF cycles and 3 IUI cycles with all BFNs.  She told me that on average it takes 3 IVF cycles to achieve a pregnancy.  Has anyone else ever heard of this?  What would it take for IUIs?  

TIA.

Echloe

Totally untrue as far as IVFs.

LCB34

Echloe:

Totally untrue as far as IVFs.

This.

momagain2009

That's not true.  I just had a long discussion with my RE about this yesterday.

kthappy76

There are stats out there for general success rates for each procedure, but they vary WIDELY.  It really depends on the individual and the clinic.  I think we all know people who've gotten pregnant on their first IUI or IVF (or first time trying for that matter!) and those who are setting the curve on the other side, but I think ~50% for IVF and ~20% for IUI are some stats that I've heard.

suntoto

momagain2009:

That's not true.  I just had a long discussion with my RE about this yesterday.

Ohh... please share what they said!  I am really interested!!!

yodasmistress

Nationwide, across all age groups and diagnoses, the IVF success rate is about 30%.  I do not know the exact mathmatical "average" for the number of tries it takes to get pg with IVF.  However, if you look at the mathmatical formula,  [(1*0.3) + ((1-0.3)*0.3) + (1-0.3-0.21)*0.3)] you can see that after three tries, only about 65.7% of women doing IVF will be pregnant.

ETA --->  and due to the nature of the formula, the absoulte total increase in % success rate diminishes with each successive attempt.

liberty09

So not true.

suntoto

yodasmistress:

Nationwide, across all age groups and diagnoses, the IVF success rate is about 30%.  I do not know the exact mathmatical "average" for the number of tries it takes to get pg with IVF.  However, if you look at the mathmatical formula,  [(1*0.3) + ((1-0.3)*0.3) + (1-0.3-0.21)*0.3)] you can see that after three tries, only about 65.7% of women doing IVF will be pregnant.

ETA --->  and due to the nature of the formula, the absoulte total increase in % success rate diminishes with each successive attempt.

That makes a lot of sense.  Thanks for this info!

Scigrlnyc

NAtional IVF success stats are available through SART.org

Quizzle

Not true that I've ever heard..

I thought I'd heard something like 'If it doesn't work in the first three tries, your chances go down'. But maybe I'm thinking of clomid or something.