Intro, Info, & Advice Please?

drake986 · July 2013

Hey There

It's been awhile, but I'm back on the bump. I was on the TTTC board back in 2008 when my DH & I started IF Treatment. After about a year of tests and treatment, we decided to go on a break to pursue holistic treatment and get our lives back. The break lasted about 4 years, way longer than we anticipated, but we're healthier for it. In October of 2012, I had to go to the emergency room for hemorrhaging, and ended up having an emergency DNC and blood transfusion. Not 2 weeks before, we'd decided to go back to treatment, so we got one thing out of the way... Fresh start & ready to begin!

In March, we were finally able to start our first cycle after test cycles & a sonohystagram. That injectable IUI failed. We went straight into the next cycle, but moved on to IVF w/ICSI. We got 27 eggs, 23 mature & fertilized, 20 started developing, and on day 4 we had 14 still going. On Day 5, our scheduled transfer, we got the news that all the remaining embryos had arrested. There was no explanation, they just stopped. To top it off, I got OHSS.

In June, I went on Lupron, and we officially began IVF cycle #2 at the beginning of July. At retrieval, they got 15 eggs, but an additional 5 were unreachable because I had OHSS again and was too swollen. They used ICSI and were able to fertilize 13 eggs. On day 2 & 3 we had 11 embryos left. We did a day 3 transfer with 3 embryos, 2 6 Cell grade 1, 1 6 Cell grade 2. The remaining embryos were left to develop to hopefully get to the blastocyst stage. 3dp3dt, we got the call that all the remaining embryos arrested. Again. Nothing to freeze. 2 IVF cycles down, nothing left. The doctor that did our retrieval this cycle asked if there was any MFI, which to our knowledge, there wasn't. We thought that was the one thing we didn't have to worry about. He suggested that because of when our embryos stopped developing, it may be a sperm issue, not a an egg quality issue like our doctor thought. This is where I need your help... Has anyone else had this happen? Do you have any advice? Any questions that we should ask at our consultation next week? We're going to request an SCSA. DH had lead poisoning when he was about 3yrs old, but we were told that shouldn't have affected him since it was before his development.

I appreciate any help you can offer. It's great to know that there's such a great community our here with such supportive members. Thanks for reading and chat with you all soon!

tptbabe · July 2013

To be honest, while I was reading I was thinking that it sounded like a sperm fragmentation issue. I don't have the same experience as yourself, as we haven't gotten to the point where we're able to do IVF yet (physically), but there are quite a few ladies here with MFI experience who might be able to shed some light on it! Welcome, though I'm sorry you have to be here!

LittleLady77 · July 2013

I can't help but I wanted to give you a big hug! That's A LOT to go through.

Sunny B · July 2013

Wow, I'm sorry that you've had to go through all of that

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you!

PhillyJ33 · July 2013

I don't have any advice but I wanted to say that I am sorry for all the you have gone through. I hope you find some answers soon.

hmz819 · July 2013

I'm assuming your DH had a SA. What were the results of that? You could do a DNA frag test but the problem is that if the results come back bad the only way I've read to improve DNA is a high anti oxidant diet. Our RE said the DNA frag test wouldn't tell us much and since we don't have the option around here to do PICSI we didn't do the test. My DH is taking Proxeed (recommended by my RI) and Coast Male Fertility vitamins (recommended by my RE) along with 500mg vit c, 200 mg co q 10, 200 mg pycogenol, and fish oil.

drake986 · July 2013

Thank You All For The Warm Welcome :-) DH's Sperm Counts Are Great. He Usually Has About 135 Million With Great Quality Which Is Why This Seems So Strange. I'm Hoping We Can Do A DNA Frag Test... That's The Only Thing I Can Think Of... Originally Our Doc Thought It May Be Egg Quality So She Put Me On Metformin And We Used Lupron Instead Of Ganirelex. Thanks For The Diet And Vitamin Info :-) (Sorry For The Caps, On Mobile Site And It Wants To Be Weird...)