DOR at 28

NYC1216 · January 2010

So after the not so great ET yesterday, my RE told me that he thought I had a slightly DOR. My FSH is 8.2, so it is normal high. He told me that on the dose of gonal f 150mg, I should have made more than 12 eggs, 8 mature.

I am so annoyed by this because this entire time I have been saying that he is not being aggressive enough with me!

How am I 28 with a DOR? My mom had her last baby at 42! All of my friends are my age, getting pregnant with no problem. I feel like with every step in this process, I find out something else that is against us getting pregnant.

(For those who didnt see my post from yesterday, I had a early blast and 2 compacted morulas on day 5 transfered)

theworms · January 2010

I hope one or two of the embies you transferred stick around for a long time.

I know that DOR can strike women in their 20's. I think that IVF is trial and error. I hope you are KU with this try and don't need to do another one until you want siblings and they can use what they learned from this try to make changes to protocol.

It's hard when everyone around you gets pregnant so easily. I'm 34 and a lot of my friends have already had 1 or more kids.

Praying this is your turn. GL

Babsie7 · January 2010

I hoping and praying that your embies stick.

In the future, your RE will know to be more agressive. I agree it's frustrating, sometimes I don't think my RE is aggressive enough either.

Sending lots of positive vibes your way! Good luck!

LCB34 · January 2010

I always find it so interesting that REs have such different opinions on what classifies DOR.

It seems like your RE is associating quality of embryos with DOR. Per my RE (and research I have done on my own), DOR has nothing to do with quality and is just related to quantity.

Also, I don't think 8 mature eggs while on 150IUs of Gonal is a bad response. That is a pretty low dose of stims for IVF so, I think 8 sounds decent.

For some perspective on DOR (also I was diagnosed at 24) I was on 300 IUs total for IVF #1 (a mix of follistom ad menopur) and only produced 4 mature eggs. For IVF #2 I was on 600 IUs total (300 Follistim and 300 Menopur) and got 7 mature eggs.

I hope this IVF works but, if it doesn't, I think you can slightly up your stims to get a few more mature eggs. But, my REs goal was to get 8-12 mature eggs for all patients - no matter what the diagnosis (obviously PCOS patients typically get more).

Best of luck.

laure1122 · January 2010

NYC1216:
I feel like with every step in this process, I find out something else that is against us getting pregnant.

I could have written this myself I am sorry. I don't know if DOR is genetic? My RE keeps asking about my family...like when my mom went through menopause (she is just now, at 57), have my siblings had trouble getting KU (my sis is 2 years older and is now KU with no problem)...it is like they want it to be genetic...but I don't think it is. There's some unknown cause, I hope one day they figure it all out.

NYC1216 · January 2010

LCB34:

It seems like your RE is associating quality of embryos with DOR. Per my RE (and research I have done on my own), DOR has nothing to do with quality and is just related to quantity.

he said it is a quantity thing. He just didnt feel like I needed to be pushed with making more eggs since I am 28 and didnt feel quality would be an issue. Being that we had no perfect blasts on day 5, I am now wondering if quality is an issue

NYC1216 · January 2010

theworms:

I know that DOR can strike women in their 20's.

It's hard when everyone around you gets pregnant so easily. I'm 34 and a lot of my friends have already had 1 or more kids.

Thanks for you kind words. You are always so sweet! I had no idea it could strike people so young. I wish I had known this earlier on. I feel like I am such a small statistic with DOR in my 20's being that so many of my friends are KU so easily.

theworms · January 2010

NYC1216:
theworms:

I know that DOR can strike women in their 20's.

It's hard when everyone around you gets pregnant so easily. I'm 34 and a lot of my friends have already had 1 or more kids.

Thanks for you kind words. You are always so sweet! I had no idea it could strike people so young. I wish I had known this earlier on. I feel like I am such a small statistic with DOR in my 20's being that so many of my friends are KU so easily.

it just sucks to feel left behind and to constantly have new obstacles in our way. I hope that this cycle works out and you don't need to worry about any of this for a couple of years.

it's so funny you want him to be more agressive and i want him to be less, he wants to tirgger with more follies than I am comfortable with and I disagreed with him this last cycle and stayed on same protocol and now am wondering if I should have upped the meds

GL my dear

Dragonfly1226 · January 2010

I don't know much about DOR, but I am so sorry you got bad news.

It is so hard to watch everyone around you get pregnant and have babies. I am 33, and most of my friends have one child. Many have two. Being left behind is so hard.

I'm praying that your embies are snuggling in right now and that it will be your turn next.

(((((hugs)))))

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