Hi hopeful_mom a lot to consider for sure! First off I know Dr Braverman supposed to be the best so I'm not doubting him but I'm wondering what the heck your mother having Hashimoto has to do with anything. What would you be a carrier exactly? I'm just confused because I've done a shite load of research around hashi seeing as I have it and aside from it making you prone to other auto immune issues that can cause reproductive issues and it making you hypothyroid so you have to deal with that for sure before getting pregnant, I don't understand why it would matter at all if your mom had it if you don't. And I'm glad you are going to keep going with this stim cycle because the egg quality issues doesn't seem to be an issue for you. I have been told twice now that they suspect "silent" endo and yet the goal has been to get me pregnant asap because of that and not to explore it's removal because of how risky that is. I believe it's endo on the ovaries that affects egg quality. I mentioned that again after this last horrendously failed cycle when my RE brought it up again, on my Kindara chart and at least 4 of the ladies who follow me all chimed in saying they too were advised based on age to not peruse the endo they were suspicious of but to get pregnant inspite of it. They were all ladies 36 or older saying that. So I would be very interested to see what his plan is for you in regards to his endo suspicion. Back to the Hashi for a moment, have you had testing for TPO and TGAb antibodies? If you don't have them I would not be concerned at all with Hashi. I'm glad that you are getting a full work up, I hope the bloodwork and other tests you get will ensure you get your sticky bean ASAP! I wish it was not so expensive! I would totally be doing it too if it wasnt!!!
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@capps42613 hi so nice to hear from you, hope your lil prince is doing well! I have to check my blood work after the MC I think I so a T4 in there...maybe my RE can at least add some insight, who diagnosed you? You're regular dr? And YES is does give me hope - thank you!!
hopefuljj thats very interesting I didn't even realize you could be my moms kid Part of me thinks he is playing a guessing game. I mentioned the MC to him and he doesn't think baby A was abnormal and this "could be" a reason I MC. Even with all the research I'm trying to do I don't know that much on endo BUT because of what my mom has I guess I could then be a carry and have underlying endo which could be causing an issue for me. t seems he's trying to make a connection with in my family history if there actually is any time of issues genetically. AND since hashi (i like that abbreviation!) is an immune thing then we go back to...could i have an immune something. I didn't put anything with my mom having that as an issue for me. I actually haven't decided to do the testing yet...its super pricey and delays everything yet again. Having a laproscopy scares the hell out of me especially because anything can go wrong any time you're doing a surgery so unless I need it 100% not sure i want someone messing around in there when everything could be ok too. See I feel like your dr would be telling me to just get pregnant and not stop to figure out this other stuff.
AFM: went for bw and us, E2 is pretty low at 75 but thats how i normally start. But in exciting news I had 4 follies on the left and right today woohoo. They range between 5/10 Just hoping when I go back on monday they are all still growing together!!! And I was sooo tardy taking my meds tonight too ugh!!
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@Hopeful_mom 4 on the left and right meaning 8??? Omg swoon!!! That sounds amazing!!!!!!
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
hopefuljj yes i was pleasantly surprised!! It was also a tech that is not my regular on point chica so lets see what tomorrow has to say. It's cycle 8 and to get 8, how great would that be I'm just getting started and know too well how this can grow so we shall see...trying to stay hopeful!!! When is your follow up with your RE?
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom- wow 8 is great!! Hope you had a good monitoring today! Hope this last cycle is the BEST one Hopefully you will get lots of normies so you it makes you more comfortable with an FET!
@hopefuljj- hope you are hanging in there and can get a good plan from your RE!!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
Ok ladies back from my appt. Looking like these 8 follies are all still in it. E2 went from 75 - 242 so thats exciting for me. I feel like after 5 days of meds I already have a follicle at 13 so a lil nervous that i haven't even been to acupuncture yet so hoping that wont effect anything and I've got normal eggs cooking in there. I have 4 follies on the right and left and so far they have all progressed so hoping they will keep doing that. I'm concerned with the one that jumped from a 9 to a 13...big mama!! So I shall already be starting the cetritide tonight!! I have 4 ranging from 10-11.5. And then 6.5, 7.5 and a 9. Hopefully these will catch up to the others.
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Oh @hopeful_mom this sounds SO EXCITING!!!! 8 on 8!!!! I hope the smaller guys and gals hurry up and catch up!!! This is honestly just such wonderful and uplifting news!!!
AFM had an emotional week, my sweet sweet big sister did a bunch of HW behind my back to find out if a girl currently pregnant would be able to be a donor after she turns 39 and completes breastfeeding when her baby turns 6 months old. I mean, whhhhaaaat?!!!! Have you ever heard something so sweet and amazing before in your life??? She contacted my clinic (I can't even believe she remembered where I go) and had a consult about it all and The clinic said YES and she would need her FSH and amh tested and to not be breastfeeding but yes they have had siblings her age act as donors before!!! so she emailed me a novel about how she is 100% on board to do that for me and I basically cried for days. I still can't even write about it without crying. I'm not sure I could ever really put her through that, especially with a baby and everything and what if my body just didn't take the embryo anyway and it was all for nothing but the gesture is everything to me. Literally everything.
I'm going to keep truckin and see what happens and give this thing a fair shot but if I get through round 3 with still NOTHING to even consider transferring, I'll need to start considering other avenues. So much for "banking".
Anyway, follow up is Thursday! My list of things to discuss with my RE is LONG, I'm worried about getting it all into one hour! And all my symptoms and issues from my stupid autoimmune disorder have been at 100% the past 2 weeks...ever since retrieval, I'm really hoping to get one minute of peace where I'm not totally uncomfortable:-/ we shall see! I'm sure the stress and hormones are not helping!
@JamieH2000 how are you doing lady?! Enjoying your summer fun before the big day??? Transfer time will be here before you know it!! When will your donor begin her cycle?
love to all you ladies:)
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@hopeful_mom- wow, that is a good rise in estrogen!! You've had a big one start out before and it's been ok so hopefully it will be the same this time!!
@hopefuljj- wow, that is so kind of your sister and great to know you have a back up plan! So kind that she looked into it all before she got your hopes up about it!! I know your genetic is important given you history so this may be a good option eventually! I agree with trying at least one more cycle and then assessing again after that! Hopefully your RE will answer all of your questions on Thur and I really hooe you start feeling better soon!
AFM, we talked with the psychologist today about the known donation and they said the donor was open to whatever level of contact we wanted. We decided on exchanging emails and names. We plan to email the donor in the next few months and say thank you and share some info about us. So now hopefully we can finish the legal contract! I start lupron in 3 weeks and then baseline in 4. Transfer in 7ish hopefully! Starting to get nervous again about how many embryos we will get!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
@hopefuljj That is so nice of your sister! I do agree that you should do one more cycle to see what happens.
@Jamieh2000 Getting close!! So glad the donor is ok with communication. So happy for you!
AFM, still waiting... Today is one week from ovulation. I was thinking of testing on Friday. So far I have no symptoms (which scares me). Trying to stay busy and not think about it.
@Hopeful_mom my RE diagnosed my hypothyroidism bc he said my level was too high, I would've had even more trouble getting pregnant & staying pregnant. It wasn't until a couple weeks ago my PCP diagnosed me with hashimotos. Fx your 8 follies keep growing! Edited to add: thank you, he is well. 8 months already!
@AC93639 hang in there lady, I'm crossing everything for you! Sometimes ladies don't have any symptoms so don't worry too much! @JamieH2000 this is getting crazy exciting!! Hope you get contracts done and get this party started!
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
hopefuljj I just loved reading your update! As siblings grow up we don't always stay close and I love that your bond is stronger then ever!!! I think its important to have a sibling especially a sister going through this process. My sister has been my rock through it all. I have to rely on her for doing my trigger and not OH. My sister is older as well and has offered in every way to help...she still might have to Its comforting for sure having her by my side. I'm so glad you are there for each other!! And you certainly look a like so theres that bonus too
@AC93639 no symptoms is fine is sooo early!! keeping everything crossed for you!!
@JamieH2000 yay!!! I'm thrilled to see your donor is down with communication, such good news! Hoping everything will keep moving in the right direction! I'm pretty sure we're going to be transfer buddies
capps42613 wow 8 months amazing!! I probably should get my bw done again...I'm sure once i finally have a baby my thyroid will act up on me as well...At least we know you still had successful pregnancies without extra meds which is exciting
Edit for my update...
AFM: Yesterday was a tough day - having twins I shouldve delivered sooner but it was my due date and its just sad. My E2 in 3 days did rise from 75, 242, 400 so thats looking good for me and 7/8 follies are all on point...one is at 6.5 so we shall see if it perks up. I feel like after 5/6 days of meds I already have a follicle at 13 so a lil nervous that i haven't even gotten to acupuncture yet so hoping that wont effect anything and I've got normal eggs cooking in there. I went to acupuncture today and hopefully that will help make this eggs super strong and normal! I can't believe I still have a killer headache, not sure if its the meds or just lack of sleep.. I already started the cetritide last night so i'm certainly progressing a bit faster this cycle...so praying thats a good thing!!
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@AC93639- the tww is the worst!! Hope time goes quickly and I think its safe to start testing at 10DPO, as anything before that is wayyy to early. It can take until 14DPO or more to get a positive tho, so don't give up hope!
@hopefuljj- good luck on your follow up tomorrow!!
@hopeful_mom-I am sure it was such a hard day I hope the days only get better from here. I can't believe how fast (yet how slow) the last 9 months have gone. I remember when you got your positive! Hopefully we are both only weeks away from a positive! Glad things are going a little faster this cycle and hope you had good growth this morning!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
JamieH2000 you know i was thinking the same thing the other day too! People are giving birth so it did go fast for them and yet here i am...still trying to get back to it. Its been hard but just trying to focus on a positive ER. I only got 2 sessions of acupuncture in this round so i have to hope it was enough to give them an extra good boost!
AC93639 sorry to hear but hoping it will turn around for you tomorrow!!
AFM: We're still measuring 8 but i'm not sure all will make it to the party. I've got my mama running the pack at 19, 17, (2) 18.5 (2) 15.5 a 13 and 11. Praying I can at least get these 6 and hopefully the 13 can at least make it. AND i have to pray none of them are empty...so many unknowns in this process my E2 is 756 it should be higher today but the nurse forgot to tell me...so i have to remember when i go in tomorrow to ask. I"m close will probably trigger tomorrow or sunday....
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@ac93639- negatives are the worst holding out hope for you since it's still early!!
@hopeful_mom- those sounds like some good follie sizes!! Hope your E2 is rising good and I'm betting you will trigger tomorrow!! Hope this last round is the best round!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
@AC93639 ok 10 DPO still early, crossing everything for you for a BFP to pop up in the next couple days!!!!
@Hopeful_mom I can't even imagine how sad that date must be for you. It's too much to even try and wrap my head around. I so wish things had gone differently for you and your little angels had been born healthy and strong:(. Im really hoping this cycle really is the end all be all of IVF success cycles for you.
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
hopefuljj I'm trying so hard to look ahead and not focus to much but its hard. Everyday this week is just woman and there lil new borns. Its the summer time so its much easier to bring the lil ones out. I know I have to move past it and stop trying to figure out all the what is and the whys...its just hard. I believe in karma and I question what have i done in this life time that I deserve this karma you know. And then I keep reminding myself that there has to be a reason that I'm at this point. Thanks for your positivity I know its hard and i appreciate it! How did your appt go?
JamieH2000 well my lovely you are correct dr hope you are right about this...you've been there from the beginning only fair you're with me now
AFM: I got the call and it's trigger time y'all!! I feel like its the world series and i'm being called to the plate...its hilarious. This is it game 7...even though its cycle 8 I dont know if its the caffeine in the DECAF coffee from dunkin (i swear i think they switched it) but i just feel super anxious! Today i had a different tech so i'm trying to not stress too much over the sizes that she measured. E2 was 969 yesterday and just went up 100 to 1069 so since it hasn't gone up that much we believe its time to go so we dont lose any...which then means I dont get my RE for ER BUT i get the dr thats the head of the clinic so hoping he can be just as much of a good luck charm I've got 21.5, 20, 19.5, 19, 16.5, 15.5, 12.5, 10.5, 9.5 soooo it seems like 2 have shrunk a lil and others have stayed the same so i'm really hoping that each follie will have a good mature egg ready to go!!! I'm surprised i'm this nervous for it....but excited that its go time!!!
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
hi again - what a nightmare last night turned into...praying tomorrow is less eventful
As I took my trigger shot last night I actually had a terrible reaction to the medication and had this numbing feeling in my left arm and leg. This is the 6th time I'm taking it and I've never experienced an issue prior. The dr on call said I should go to the hospital and that was the last thing I wanted to do. He was concerned i could have a blood clot, I took a baby aspirin in hopes that wasn't the case. Luckily this morning my leg was feeling better but my arm was still tender. Since I'm on the mend the dr wasn't too concerned. Can't get over the reaction my hand still feels like its sleeping ugh!!! They said it was smart that I took the baby aspirin as having the leg pain was concerning. I think if that persisted I wouldve went to the hospital.
Glad i got the call and i'm ready for ER tomorrow. Lets hope my hand is feeling back to normal by then...its so weird!!
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Oh my gosh Hopeful_mom! That is wild! I'm so sorry that happened! Good thinking with the baby aspirin. Ugh. What a scare you must have had. Good luck at egg retrieval!!!!!! Sending over all the mature egg vibes!
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@hopeful_mom- happy ER day!! That is so scary about your arm/leg, but really really hoping you are feeling all back to normal now. May the last ER be the best one!! Can't wait to hear!
@AC9369- so sorry about the BFN I would definitely reco trying an IUI next round just to make sure you have it all timed just right. Even for "normal" ladies, I think there is only a 25% chance of success each month. Since its been so hard to get you to ovulate, definitely want to up your changes however you can!!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
@AC9369- sorry for the BFN I echo the above an IUI could totally give you better odds...its hard when trying for so long to move on to the next stages but I 'm sure you'll be glad you did.
AFM: Glad ER is over, I was more nauseous coming to this round as well. They say that you're body going through something can just change on a whim like that...so I think my body is ready for the next step - a transfer right Thrilled they got 7 golden eggs, yay! The Dr was like "i think we have 6 were looking at" and I'm like no, I think we have more like 6-8. SO he assured me he would get everything. One hurdle down now on to the next...
@JamieH2000 where are you now...things will start up soon right?
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom WOW!! That is amazing!! So happy for you!
@jamieH2000 Yes, I will definately talk to the RE about IUI for the next round on Wednesday. I still have some meds left but I think I might wait a month before starting up again. Need to save up some money.
@hopeful_mom- wow, 7 is great!! is that your highest yet? Maybe the month off gave your body just the rest it needed. FX for a great update tomorrow!!
@ac9369- the meds are so expensive I think there are sometimes manufacturer coupons online, worth googling! and maybe your clinic has some donated from other patients that they may give yoU!
AFM- just waiting.. and getting a little worried since somehow I am spotting a little? I don't know how that is possible since I just took my 21st active BC pill last night. I am going straight into a second back for another 18 days, but I'm worried my body is somehow overriding the BC and now I will get my period and mess up all the timing they had laid out. If it continues or gets any heavier, I will send them an email. Hopefully I can just keep taking the pill and get a true period in about 3 weeks from now before my baseline in 23 days....There is just always something in this process!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
JamieH2000 hmmmmm thats interesting hoping the spotting isn't anything...thats kind of crazy where here your AF took so long to start up the last time! I would reach out to your clinic regardless. SO I think I wait for AF again and then I get started right? Hopefully we'll be in it together again
AFM: How is it every time you try to rest the phone rings. the 2 times I fell asleep the head lab dr called and then later my brother. Anyhoo I didn't think I'd already have an update but I do. Dr mentioned that one egg was ND, now I was still half out of it and confused and basically said it was a dead egg... huh...not something you really want to hear. Not sure I mentioned but I used a frozen sample instead of fresh and I have to say that the motility was not as great after the thaw as they wanted so they did all icsi. Trying to stay positive and praying they will all have a good outcome.
I have to say this is the most nauseous I have ever been this late in the day after this procedure. Its amazing how you can feel different every time. I think have the reaction to the trigger is just showing my body is a lil off with all the meds this round. All the numbness and nauseous must still be from the anesthesia.
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom- Good advice.. I did email them.. I'm hoping its ok and that I won't get full flow or anything if I keep taking the BC. I just feel like it wasn't working this month or something and I still ovulated. I am scheduled for baseline in 3 weeks, so we should be really close together I think! Can't wait for your update today! Sorry about the bad egg, but 6 is still a great number I think!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
JamieH2000 good i'm glad you emailed...did you have sex near the bleed? Don't mind me for asking but a lil fun can cause irritation too? Just thinking as its so not your norm!
AFM: We know I got 7 but since one was a pooper from the beginning will say, out of the 6, 5 fertilized...I know I should be happy I'm just hella nervous! What is wrong with me? Maybe cause i know this is it...5 is better then 1,2,3,and 4. I think i'm stressing thinking they might not be as strong since there were a few more this cycle AND they keep reminding me his sample wasn't great. Which thats fine as most of my normies are the ones that were icsi'd only one normie is through IVF. However I repeatedly said to the Dr if the sample after the thaw is not good then he will give a fresh one. I think I'm mad at myself for not just giving it in....I don't know.
I'm annoyed at myself for being this stressed. Did I do everything right? I only got 2 acupuncture session in more toward the end of the cycle not the beginning, was it not enough?
Side note: I can't believe i'm still so crampy. Ive done this 6x and this cramping has lasted the longest now WTH! My head is first coming back to normal....definitely this round is taking the longest to bounce back from.
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom- haha you crack me up. We did actually have some fun, but it was also the cramping and bloat that made my concerned AF was coming. I heard back from the clinic and they just said it was normal. I am just hoping it goes away! I know you always want more, but you seem to do really good at getting a good percentage to blast from your fertilitzed, so hopefully you get at least 3 to day 5 and can test them. No matter how many times you do IVF, its still nerve racking each time! just try to relax and enjoy your next few weeks since hopefully they will be your last ones until you are preggo for 9 months!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
I am new to this forum and just found out that my AMH is low as well at 0.898 ng/ml. I have spent the last couple of days reading through this forum and it has given me so much hope when i thought there isn't any left. I have my appointment with my RE this coming monday after all my testing is done to come up with a plan. I'm still trying to figure out how to post little footnotes on the bottom about myself. Can anyone tell me how they did theirs? Thanks in advance.
***** child/loss TW ***** Age: 32 DH: 35 natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014 9/2015 chemical pregnancy Initial workup: AMH: 0.898 ng/ml Antral Follicle Count: 5 FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
babyhopeful442 hi and welcome - sorry you find yourself here. I know hearing you have low amh feels like your dreams are over BUT as you can see from this thread if you read all the way from the beginning many have had success. And I know you are under 1...but .89 is still pretty good and you should be just fine. Good luck with your appointment.
My suggestion for adding a signature to your profile is this: You need to do it on a laptop first. Up at the right corner there are lil icons, click on the one that looks like a person and go into PREFERENCES.
Then on the left hand sign you'll see signature setting as an option and there you go! Type in the box what you like and hit save. Did I go back and forth to see what it looked like and make sense sure...so you're not alone!!
Hope that helps - good luck!!
AFM: Just started a new job and i have a feeling its going to interfere with my FET time BUT I'm going to have to figure out how to not stress and work around it! My Day 2 report is all my embabies are looking good! One is even ahead of the game at 5AB and the others are at 4 cell where they should be...I'm so relieved and praying tomorrows update will be just as promising!!!
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@AC93639 I'm sorry about the negative:( I hope that you can move on to an IUI. I hate that money has to be such an obstacle for us in regards to this fertility struggle!
@JamieH2000 I'm glad your clinic got back to you and said it's normal! I hope it goes away. It's always something right?? Never a dull moment with our bodies. Lol.
@Hopeful_mom congrats on ER!! 5 fertilized sounds pretty great to me, I can't wait for you to move onto the next steps in this process!! It's about to get really real! I'll be sending all the positive vibes to your growing embabies and soooo hope you get some normies this round!!!
@babyhopeful442 Welcome:). I'm very sorry you find yourself here, and like Hopeful_mom said .89 is pretty good!!!
AFM I had my consult with my RE last week. It went ok. Was a full hour and I got all my questions in. She said based off my last two cycles, she really thinks endo. Which is causing poor egg quality, hence the unmature eggs in the last cycle and all abnormal the cycle before. So she said I could consider a surgery for official diagnosis but also isn't really sure what that would accomplish. I've said this before but it seems most RE's don't recommend doing endo removal if you don't have physical symptoms and are over 35 because it won't necessarily help with the other issues (DOR, poor egg quality) and can end up wasting time when the goal is to get pregnant asap when you have super low amh like me. So I'm still not sure what to do about that. She is still hopeful for me and basically just says it's going to be harder for me to find a good egg but they are in there. So I'll just have to try and go with that I guess. We scrutinized my last two cycles going over all the differences and similarities and looking at all my scans as well. She talked a lot about how for her she really thinks it's less protocol changes that help and more just each cycle is different but also said she would be willing to do any of the protocols I felt like I wanted to try. We laughed a lot and had a very good talk, I could tell that she really wants me to try fresh transfers on day 3 to see if that makes a difference since we are having such shit luck with making it to day 5 with the lab. She still says she thinks that if it's going to make it to day 5 in the uterus it should also in the lab but also said that she has had plenty of women who after having no luck trying to get to day 5 in lab, have opted for day 3 fresh transfer and gotten pregnant. So there is no way to know if that cycle the embryos would have made it in the lab to day 5 had they not changed to a fresh transfer, but it's worth a shot.
After talking through all the protocols I was interested in and different things I was thinking of adding we settled on coming in right after ovulation to check out my situation and possibly start a luteal stim for one last frozen cycle and add in HGH. The HGH is my recommendation. She thinks based on my age I likely still produce enough on my own but I worry I don't because of auto immune issues so I'm gonna pay for it and we are gonna give it a shot. If it doesn't look like a good time to start, then I'll wait for AF to arrive and will do the A/ACP protocol which is pretty similar to what I was doing but adding Cetrotide to the beginning of the cycle prior to stims and adding HGH at some point as well. Looking at how low my FSH got from Estrogen priming she doesn't think I really need that either, but I just wanted to try something different.
So I'll try to get to day 5 with an embryo this round and then we shall see what I do after that. I'm trying to remain hopeful but it feels like if things keep going like this, I'm not sure what the point is to continue on. It's not like things will suddenly turn around. So we shall see. I'm leaving on vacation with the DH, for my friends lakehouse with his wife. It's my happiest place in the world so I'm going to try and just disconnect and relax. I of course have to get medicine delivers though so now it looks like I might end up telling them about the Ivf's and get the medicine delivered to the lakehouse. lol. Bad timing as always. Love to you all.
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@babyhopeful442 Welcome to the group! I'm sorry that you are
here but glad that you found us. These ladies are amazing and give so much
support. Good luck with your appointment on Monday!
@hopeful_mom That is an awesome update. FX that everything
works out for you!!!
@hopefuljj I'm going to move forward with the IUI. So far, I
have 12 days’ worth of meds left so I should be able to start as soon as the RE
approves it. I'm sorry to hear your status. I honestly feel that the doctors
are just trying to figure it out as they go along. I'm glad your RE is willing
to work with you and is letting you take control. Take some time for self-care
and have fun at the lake house!
AFM- No AF yet but I'm having cramps. RE took my blood
yesterday to see if I might be pregnant. Apparently, the test only reads
positive at 50+hcg. They want to make sure before starting me back up again. I
will be anxious until I get that call today. At this point, I just want to know
so that I can move forward. I don’t like the feeling of being in limbo.
@babyhopeful442 - welcome to the group! Glad the board could give you some hope. Low AMH is a hard diagnosis, but so many still have success. I hope your RE has some good next steps! Mine told me with lower AMH that we should just be aggressive and not waste too much time. You can see in my siggy, but we tried a few IUIs before IVF. Keep us posted!
@hopeful_mom- yay for 5 in the game!! that is so awesome! I am waiting to see a great day 3 update today! How long is your new job? Hopefully you can still do your FET! since we are on a similar schedule, here are my dates- Lurpon 8/28, baseline on 9/6, monitoring on 9/13 and 9/20. THen transfer between 9/24-9/28. So its a good 3-3.5 weeks after you start AF. hopefully it will all work out!
@hopefuljj- Good to hear an update from you and glad your RE spent a good amount of time with you going over everything. It is very hard at this point in treatment since they really just don't know, and there isn't much option but to keep trying or move on to donor. And of course it is OUR decision and they really can't tell us what to do. Assuming you can swing it finanicaly, I think its definitely worth one more round to try to find a golden egg. I would just take it one cycle at a time, and then assess from there. So glad you are getting away! Its hard to tell others, but maybe talking it through with your friend will help? I hope you have the best time and forget about all of this for a few days!
AFM- got my med calendar and it looks like lupron starting on 8/28 and then continuing all the way until the donor triggers. Starting estrogen patches after my baseline. Then once the donor has retrieval, we will start PIO and estrogen. Not looking forward to PIO again (was on crinone last round and preferred that), but I think they always do PIO with FET protocols. Still spotting and hoping that goes away goes soon!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
@Hopeful_mom Thanks to you, i was able to add my little signature about myself. I've followed your journey on this forum and i'm praying these 5 will be your golden eggs! You deserve this so much! Grow embabies grow!! I look forward to your next update
@hopefuljj sounds like you have a great RE. Who's not giving up and you shouldn't either. Sounds like a good plan you've got going forward after your vacation. I understand how frustrating everything is especially with autoimmune disorders; i have hypothyroidism as well as psoriasis. My husband is convinced it's my autoimmune disorder that's causing my low AMH. I also understand that telling friends who haven't gone through infertility can be so hard. Most of my friends keep telling me to just relax and it will happen when it happens. I know they are just trying to comfort me, but relaxing is really easier said than done after 3 years and god knows how many ovulation kits and pregnancy tests I've gone through. Also, since i've gotten my AMH level, i've been reading forums day and night and day 3 transfers have really made a difference in other ladies that have not had luck with day 5. Either way, good luck and have fun at the lake house!
@AC93639 FX for you. It sounds promising! It would be even better if you don't need it and are already pregnant. Can't wait for your update! PUPO right?
@JamieH2000 hope your spotting stops soon. Yay for your med calendar! Everything is about to get real. I can't wait for you to meet your donor. What day is the retrieval scheduled in September?
AFM i called last week to find out my preliminary blood work results and that's how i found out about my AMH level. My RE's clinic doesn't release any test results until you've had a consult after with the RE. I didn't know this, so i called to have my results released to me last week and then cried for 2 straight days after finding out my AMH and having no one to talk to (my nurse said she can't interpret results and i have to wait to see the RE) I had my hormone levels done this past Tuesday (day 3 of my cycle) and i didn't call again to have my results released. I'm going to try to hold out until i see my RE on Monday so that if my FSH is bad, at least i can talk to her about it. On Monday is also my HSG test and i heard it's going to be very painful. All I've got is tylenol and advil and I still have to drive myself home after( DH has work and can't drive me). What was your experience with the HSG test? Was is very uncomfortable or excruciatingly painful? I'm nervous.
***** child/loss TW ***** Age: 32 DH: 35 natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014 9/2015 chemical pregnancy Initial workup: AMH: 0.898 ng/ml Antral Follicle Count: 5 FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
JamieH2000 so I want you to know i'm suppose to be working but now decided to stop and look at where my FET might land me so exciting you have dates! When do we find out when your Donor starts stemming? Do you get updates on that process or just whats retrieved? Does DH then give a fresh sample on that day, so exciting!!! My RE will have me using crinone and the PIO (just not as often) I'm terrified of the PIO as I hear all of the horror stories! I think we'll be in it together for sure!! I'm stressing though as this new job now I'll still be doing a crazy week when its time. Not sure when I should hope AF shows up now The difference is I know the company i'm working for so hopefully I'll be able to manage it all!
AC93639 really glad to hear you'll be moving on with an IUI if you need it...could be just want you need! Still hoping u will get a positive beta though
@hopefuljj- awesome update really glad to hear you got to go through everything with your RE. Its interesting hearing her thoughts on endo and to just keep going! I was going to suggest trying a 3dt as well...there is some magic to that process too!...just not testing. I would put all 3 in at this point. I asked about HGH and my clinic does not do it, maybe that will be the magic potion that you need!! I know its really hard to have faith in this process when the first 2 cycles have not been ideal to say the least. BUT remember there are people on this board that had poor cycles as well and the 3rd cycle was way better for them! Really hoping that will be the case for you! Financially this sux balls on every aspect for sure!! Hoping you can continue to manage it! I didn't want to work prior to the FET BUT I need the money to pay for it so here I am....hoping it will work out for me in the end!! Maybe you do another 2 cycles, try getting to 5day and the following do a 3dt? What about mini IVF? What does she feel about that? maybe thats an avenue you should think of visiting...could be cheaper too. have a wonderful time away you deserve it!!
AFM: I've been typing this all morning you should know and finally got my update...not as promising as I would've hoped but they're still in it and thats what counts!! I have a 8A, 8AB, 8B , 6B and a 4C. I was hoping the one at 5AB would've been a 10 today...you know i'm an over achiever and I like my girls to do the same Still hoping for the best!!!
I'm still the big marshmallow man in ghostbusters. And i'm not over exaggerating i look ginormous...I would think I was pregnant at this point if I didn't know me
History of TTC in spoiler box
TTC since 2014 Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30 7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle RE thought I would get at least 10. IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP with TWINS // MC both at almost 10wks IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!! IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!! IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@babyhopeful442- I just saw your siggy and that you have a DD already! I think having one child really ups your odds with low AMH. I know its still terrifying, but hopefully your RE can give you some more insight on your specific chances! Hoping you are doing something fun this weekend so Monday comes fast!
@hopeful_mom- Yay for great results. My clinic actually told me you want 6-8 cells on day 3 and if they are more, that can actually be bad if they grow too fast! So i think you should be thrilled with 4/5 in the optimal range! I hope you start to feel less bloated soon! I think your body is just saying i am DONE with the stims and ER!! Hope you gotten your FET protocol/calendar? I start lupron about 1 week before my baseline, and then add in patches after my baseline while continuing the lupron to keep the ovaries quiet. I just had a friend ovulate through a ton of estrogen during an FET, so it turned into more of a "natural" cycle.
For me, the donor starts around 9/10 I think, with ER estimated between 9/21-9/23. I should get updates whenever she has monitoring, so its going to be almost as stressful as me going through the process. but hopefully the results will be so much higher than mine, that it won't be bad news each time, but rather good news. DH did do a frozen sample just in case something came up (like a car accident or something), but he will go down the day of ER to give a fresh sample. I did PIO for 10 days during IVF #2, and it wasn't fun, but it wasn't horrible either. Hopefully it won't be too bad for you also. I would gladly take having to do it for 10 weeks to have a baby, but still not fun of course!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
@JamieH2000 Thank you for the encouraging words. I hope you are right. Surprisingly, my clinic just released my lab results without me asking for them. I've posted them. I'm so glad my FSH is within range. Is FSH testing for quality and AMH testing for quantity?
***** child/loss TW ***** Age: 32 DH: 35 natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014 9/2015 chemical pregnancy Initial workup: AMH: 0.898 ng/ml Antral Follicle Count: 5 FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
@babyhopeful442 just popping in super fast on vaca because I needed to say, PLEASE don't worry about the HSG. Yes it is painful for some ladies but for many it is nothing more than the discomfort of a Pap smear. I worked myself into such a crazy state for days prior to mine and it was a literal cake walk. So I think it's easier to just assume it won't be bad and if it ends up it is, at least you didn't spend days agonizing over it and hopefully it ends up totally fine.
Me: Hashimoto Autoimune Disease Homozygous MTHFR Cr677 DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high) 2 iui's to start - BFN IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5 IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol Chemical pregnancy FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos 1st transfer - chemical pregnancy 2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@babyhopeful442 - yay for FSH being in the normal range. I have heard that about quality and FSH/AMH, and I hope it is true for you! Unfortunately for me, that wasn't the case. My FSH has always been fine and my AMH isn't even that low (1.5), but somehow I have quality issues, likely from endo and maybe other autoimmune issues since my thyroid antibodies are slightly out of range. The lab results only mean so much, so just try to stay hopeful and positive until you see how treatments go. Also, for the HSG, it was very painful for me while they were doing it, but that literally lasted for 30 secs. Just think about how soon it will be done and why you are doing this. Its all worth it if it will give you a baby!
History in Spoiler
Age: 32 (same with DH). Together since 2006, Married June 2013 and TTC since August 2015 Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive) March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary. August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze ), BFN May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e Back for # 2!
Re: Low AMH Level
a lot to consider for sure!
First off I know Dr Braverman supposed to be the best so I'm not doubting him but I'm wondering what the heck your mother having Hashimoto has to do with anything. What would you be a carrier exactly? I'm just confused because I've done a shite load of research around hashi seeing as I have it and aside from it making you prone to other auto immune issues that can cause reproductive issues and it making you hypothyroid so you have to deal with that for sure before getting pregnant, I don't understand why it would matter at all if your mom had it if you don't.
And I'm glad you are going to keep going with this stim cycle because the egg quality issues doesn't seem to be an issue for you. I have been told twice now that they suspect "silent" endo and yet the goal has been to get me pregnant asap because of that and not to explore it's removal because of how risky that is. I believe it's endo on the ovaries that affects egg quality. I mentioned that again after this last horrendously failed cycle when my RE brought it up again, on my Kindara chart and at least 4 of the ladies who follow me all chimed in saying they too were advised based on age to not peruse the endo they were suspicious of but to get pregnant inspite of it. They were all ladies 36 or older saying that. So I would be very interested to see what his plan is for you in regards to his endo suspicion.
Back to the Hashi for a moment, have you had testing for TPO and TGAb antibodies? If you don't have them I would not be concerned at all with Hashi. I'm glad that you are getting a full work up, I hope the bloodwork and other tests you get will ensure you get your sticky bean ASAP! I wish it was not so expensive! I would totally be doing it too if it wasnt!!!
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
hopefuljj thats very interesting I didn't even realize you could be my moms kid
AFM: went for bw and us, E2 is pretty low at 75 but thats how i normally start. But in exciting news I had 4 follies on the left and right today woohoo. They range between 5/10 Just hoping when I go back on monday they are all still growing together!!! And I was sooo tardy taking my meds tonight too ugh!!
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
When is your follow up with your RE?
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopefuljj- hope you are hanging in there and can get a good plan from your RE!!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
AFM had an emotional week, my sweet sweet big sister did a bunch of HW behind my back to find out if a girl currently pregnant would be able to be a donor after she turns 39 and completes breastfeeding when her baby turns 6 months old. I mean, whhhhaaaat?!!!! Have you ever heard something so sweet and amazing before in your life??? She contacted my clinic (I can't even believe she remembered where I go) and had a consult about it all and The clinic said YES and she would need her FSH and amh tested and to not be breastfeeding but yes they have had siblings her age act as donors before!!! so she emailed me a novel about how she is 100% on board to do that for me and I basically cried for days. I still can't even write about it without crying. I'm not sure I could ever really put her through that, especially with a baby and everything and what if my body just didn't take the embryo anyway and it was all for nothing but the gesture is everything to me. Literally everything.
I'm going to keep truckin and see what happens and give this thing a fair shot but if I get through round 3 with still NOTHING to even consider transferring, I'll need to start considering other avenues. So much for "banking".
Anyway, follow up is Thursday! My list of things to discuss with my RE is LONG, I'm worried about getting it all into one hour!
And all my symptoms and issues from my stupid autoimmune disorder have been at 100% the past 2 weeks...ever since retrieval, I'm really hoping to get one minute of peace where I'm not totally uncomfortable:-/ we shall see! I'm sure the stress and hormones are not helping!
@JamieH2000 how are you doing lady?! Enjoying your summer fun before the big day??? Transfer time will be here before you know it!! When will your donor begin her cycle?
love to all you ladies:)
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@hopefuljj- wow, that is so kind of your sister and great to know you have a back up plan! So kind that she looked into it all before she got your hopes up about it!! I know your genetic is important given you history so this may be a good option eventually! I agree with trying at least one more cycle and then assessing again after that! Hopefully your RE will answer all of your questions on Thur and I really hooe you start feeling better soon!
AFM, we talked with the psychologist today about the known donation and they said the donor was open to whatever level of contact we wanted. We decided on exchanging emails and names. We plan to email the donor in the next few months and say thank you and share some info about us. So now hopefully we can finish the legal contract! I start lupron in 3 weeks and then baseline in 4. Transfer in 7ish hopefully! Starting to get nervous again about how many embryos we will get!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
@hopeful_mom That is amazing!! So happy for you!
@hopefuljj That is so nice of your sister! I do agree that you should do one more cycle to see what happens.
@Jamieh2000 Getting close!! So glad the donor is ok with communication. So happy for you!
AFM, still waiting... Today is one week from ovulation. I was thinking of testing on Friday. So far I have no symptoms (which scares me). Trying to stay busy and not think about it.
~AC~
Me: 31 | DH: 33 | Married: 11/11/2011
Me: Empty Sella Syndrome
AMH: 12/2016=0.97, 06/2017=0.70
TTC#1 (11/18-12/12/2016): Menopur 75iu increased to 225iu= 5mm follie * Cancelled
TTC#2 (3/17- 4/06/2017): Menopur 225iu increased to 300iu = 8mm follie RS& 7mm follie LS. * Cancelled
TTC#3 (6/20/17): Progesterone for 14 days.
(7/8-7/17): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 75iu= 5.59mm LS & 5.09mm RS.
(7/18-7/27): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= 6.14mm LS & 6.23mm RS.
(7/28-7/30): Gonal F 150iu and Menopur 150iu= 11.6mm LS & 11.79mm RS.
(7/31/2017): Ovidrel shot - TIC 07/31-08/02/2017 - TWW- BFN
TTC#4 (8/25-Currently) Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= appt. on Wednesday
@hopefuljj that's so awesome of your sister!!
natural pregnancy: 2008
Me: 28 (Hypothyroid), DH: 35
Together since: 2010
Married: 2013
TTC: 2013
Infertility: severe MFI, low AMH (0.5)
Met RE: January 2016
ER: 3/14 (4 follies, 6 eggs retrieved, 2 fertilized)
fresh 3dt of 2 embryos= BFP (1 implanted)
EDD w/ baby boy= 12/6/16
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@AC93639 no symptoms is fine is sooo early!! keeping everything crossed for you!!
@JamieH2000 yay!!! I'm thrilled to see your donor is down with communication, such good news! Hoping everything will keep moving in the right direction! I'm pretty sure we're going to be transfer buddies
capps42613 wow 8 months amazing!! I probably should get my bw done again...I'm sure once i finally have a baby my thyroid will act up on me as well...At least we know you still had successful pregnancies without extra meds which is exciting
Edit for my update...
AFM: Yesterday was a tough day - having twins I shouldve delivered sooner but it was my due date and its just sad.
My E2 in 3 days did rise from 75, 242, 400 so thats looking good for me and 7/8 follies are all on point...one is at 6.5 so we shall see if it perks up. I feel like after 5/6 days of meds I already have a follicle at 13 so a lil nervous that i haven't even gotten to acupuncture yet so hoping that wont effect anything and I've got normal eggs cooking in there. I went to acupuncture today and hopefully that will help make this eggs super strong and normal! I can't believe I still have a killer headache, not sure if its the meds or just lack of sleep.. I already started the cetritide last night so i'm certainly progressing a bit faster this cycle...so praying thats a good thing!!
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopefuljj- good luck on your follow up tomorrow!!
@hopeful_mom-I am sure it was such a hard day
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
Happy Friday ladies!
10dpo= BFN will test again tomorrow.
~AC~
Me: 31 | DH: 33 | Married: 11/11/2011
Me: Empty Sella Syndrome
AMH: 12/2016=0.97, 06/2017=0.70
TTC#1 (11/18-12/12/2016): Menopur 75iu increased to 225iu= 5mm follie * Cancelled
TTC#2 (3/17- 4/06/2017): Menopur 225iu increased to 300iu = 8mm follie RS& 7mm follie LS. * Cancelled
TTC#3 (6/20/17): Progesterone for 14 days.
(7/8-7/17): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 75iu= 5.59mm LS & 5.09mm RS.
(7/18-7/27): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= 6.14mm LS & 6.23mm RS.
(7/28-7/30): Gonal F 150iu and Menopur 150iu= 11.6mm LS & 11.79mm RS.
(7/31/2017): Ovidrel shot - TIC 07/31-08/02/2017 - TWW- BFN
TTC#4 (8/25-Currently) Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= appt. on Wednesday
AC93639 sorry to hear but hoping it will turn around for you tomorrow!!
@hopefuljj- hope your appointment went well!
AFM: We're still measuring 8 but i'm not sure all will make it to the party. I've got my mama running the pack at 19, 17, (2) 18.5 (2) 15.5 a 13 and 11. Praying I can at least get these 6 and hopefully the 13 can at least make it. AND i have to pray none of them are empty...so many unknowns in this process my E2 is 756 it should be higher today but the nurse forgot to tell me...so i have to remember when i go in tomorrow to ask. I"m close will probably trigger tomorrow or sunday....
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom- those sounds like some good follie sizes!! Hope your E2 is rising good and I'm betting you will trigger tomorrow!! Hope this last round is the best round!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
@Hopeful_mom I can't even imagine how sad that date must be for you. It's too much to even try and wrap my head around. I so wish things had gone differently for you and your little angels had been born healthy and strong:(. Im really hoping this cycle really is the end all be all of IVF success cycles for you.
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
JamieH2000 well my lovely you are correct dr
AFM: I got the call and it's trigger time y'all!! I feel like its the world series and i'm being called to the plate...its hilarious. This is it game 7...even though its cycle 8
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
As I took my trigger shot last night I actually had a terrible reaction to the medication and had this numbing feeling in my left arm and leg. This is the 6th time I'm taking it and I've never experienced an issue prior. The dr on call said I should go to the hospital and that was the last thing I wanted to do. He was concerned i could have a blood clot, I took a baby aspirin in hopes that wasn't the case. Luckily this morning my leg was feeling better but my arm was still tender. Since I'm on the mend the dr wasn't too concerned. Can't get over the reaction my hand still feels like its sleeping ugh!!! They said it was smart that I took the baby aspirin as having the leg pain was concerning. I think if that persisted I wouldve went to the hospital.
Glad i got the call and i'm ready for ER tomorrow. Lets hope my hand is feeling back to normal by then...its so weird!!
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@hopeful_mom That is crazy! I'm so glad you are ok. Good luck today!!!!!
AFM: 13dpo=BFN today. Have an appt with RE on Wednesday.
~AC~
Me: 31 | DH: 33 | Married: 11/11/2011
Me: Empty Sella Syndrome
AMH: 12/2016=0.97, 06/2017=0.70
TTC#1 (11/18-12/12/2016): Menopur 75iu increased to 225iu= 5mm follie * Cancelled
TTC#2 (3/17- 4/06/2017): Menopur 225iu increased to 300iu = 8mm follie RS& 7mm follie LS. * Cancelled
TTC#3 (6/20/17): Progesterone for 14 days.
(7/8-7/17): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 75iu= 5.59mm LS & 5.09mm RS.
(7/18-7/27): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= 6.14mm LS & 6.23mm RS.
(7/28-7/30): Gonal F 150iu and Menopur 150iu= 11.6mm LS & 11.79mm RS.
(7/31/2017): Ovidrel shot - TIC 07/31-08/02/2017 - TWW- BFN
TTC#4 (8/25-Currently) Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= appt. on Wednesday
@AC9369- so sorry about the BFN
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
AFM: Glad ER is over, I was more nauseous coming to this round as well. They say that you're body going through something can just change on a whim like that...so I think my body is ready for the next step - a transfer right
Thrilled they got 7 golden eggs, yay! The Dr was like "i think we have 6 were looking at" and I'm like no, I think we have more like 6-8. SO he assured me he would get everything. One hurdle down now on to the next...
@JamieH2000 where are you now...things will start up soon right?
@hopefuljj how did your appt go?
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom WOW!! That is amazing!! So happy for you!
@jamieH2000 Yes, I will definately talk to the RE about IUI for the next round on Wednesday. I still have some meds left but I think I might wait a month before starting up again. Need to save up some money.
~AC~
Me: 31 | DH: 33 | Married: 11/11/2011
Me: Empty Sella Syndrome
AMH: 12/2016=0.97, 06/2017=0.70
TTC#1 (11/18-12/12/2016): Menopur 75iu increased to 225iu= 5mm follie * Cancelled
TTC#2 (3/17- 4/06/2017): Menopur 225iu increased to 300iu = 8mm follie RS& 7mm follie LS. * Cancelled
TTC#3 (6/20/17): Progesterone for 14 days.
(7/8-7/17): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 75iu= 5.59mm LS & 5.09mm RS.
(7/18-7/27): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= 6.14mm LS & 6.23mm RS.
(7/28-7/30): Gonal F 150iu and Menopur 150iu= 11.6mm LS & 11.79mm RS.
(7/31/2017): Ovidrel shot - TIC 07/31-08/02/2017 - TWW- BFN
TTC#4 (8/25-Currently) Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= appt. on Wednesday
@ac9369- the meds are so expensive
AFM- just waiting.. and getting a little worried since somehow I am spotting a little? I don't know how that is possible since I just took my 21st active BC pill last night. I am going straight into a second back for another 18 days, but I'm worried my body is somehow overriding the BC and now I will get my period and mess up all the timing they had laid out. If it continues or gets any heavier, I will send them an email. Hopefully I can just keep taking the pill and get a true period in about 3 weeks from now before my baseline in 23 days....There is just always something in this process!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
AFM: How is it every time you try to rest the phone rings. the 2 times I fell asleep the head lab dr called and then later my brother. Anyhoo I didn't think I'd already have an update but I do. Dr mentioned that one egg was ND, now I was still half out of it and confused and basically said it was a dead egg...
I have to say this is the most nauseous I have ever been this late in the day after this procedure. Its amazing how you can feel different every time. I think have the reaction to the trigger is just showing my body is a lil off with all the meds this round. All the numbness and nauseous must still be from the anesthesia.
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
AFM: We know I got 7 but since one was a pooper from the beginning will say, out of the 6, 5 fertilized...I know I should be happy I'm just hella nervous! What is wrong with me? Maybe cause i know this is it...5 is better then 1,2,3,and 4. I think i'm stressing thinking they might not be as strong since there were a few more this cycle AND they keep reminding me his sample wasn't great. Which thats fine as most of my normies are the ones that were icsi'd only one normie is through IVF. However I repeatedly said to the Dr if the sample after the thaw is not good then he will give a fresh one. I think I'm mad at myself for not just giving it in....I don't know.
I'm annoyed at myself for being this stressed. Did I do everything right? I only got 2 acupuncture session in more toward the end of the cycle not the beginning, was it not enough?
Side note: I can't believe i'm still so crampy. Ive done this 6x and this cramping has lasted the longest now WTH! My head is first coming back to normal....definitely this round is taking the longest to bounce back from.
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
I am new to this forum and just found out that my AMH is low as well at 0.898 ng/ml. I have spent the last couple of days reading through this forum and it has given me so much hope when i thought there isn't any left. I have my appointment with my RE this coming monday after all my testing is done to come up with a plan. I'm still trying to figure out how to post little footnotes on the bottom about myself. Can anyone tell me how they did theirs? Thanks in advance.
Age: 32 DH: 35
natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014
9/2015 chemical pregnancy
Initial workup:
AMH: 0.898 ng/ml
Antral Follicle Count: 5
FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml
LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml
Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
My suggestion for adding a signature to your profile is this:
You need to do it on a laptop first. Up at the right corner there are lil icons, click on the one that looks like a person and go into PREFERENCES.
Then on the left hand sign you'll see signature setting as an option and there you go! Type in the box what you like and hit save. Did I go back and forth to see what it looked like and make sense sure...so you're not alone!!
Hope that helps - good luck!!
AFM: Just started a new job and i have a feeling its going to interfere with my FET time BUT I'm going to have to figure out how to not stress and work around it!
My Day 2 report is all my embabies are looking good! One is even ahead of the game at 5AB and the others are at 4 cell where they should be...I'm so relieved and praying tomorrows update will be just as promising!!!
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@JamieH2000 I'm glad your clinic got back to you and said it's normal! I hope it goes away. It's always something right?? Never a dull moment with our bodies. Lol.
@Hopeful_mom congrats on ER!! 5 fertilized sounds pretty great to me, I can't wait for you to move onto the next steps in this process!! It's about to get really real! I'll be sending all the positive vibes to your growing embabies and soooo hope you get some normies this round!!!
@babyhopeful442 Welcome:). I'm very sorry you find yourself here, and like Hopeful_mom said .89 is pretty good!!!
AFM I had my consult with my RE last week. It went ok. Was a full hour and I got all my questions in. She said based off my last two cycles, she really thinks endo. Which is causing poor egg quality, hence the unmature eggs in the last cycle and all abnormal the cycle before. So she said I could consider a surgery for official diagnosis but also isn't really sure what that would accomplish. I've said this before but it seems most RE's don't recommend doing endo removal if you don't have physical symptoms and are over 35 because it won't necessarily help with the other issues (DOR, poor egg quality) and can end up wasting time when the goal is to get pregnant asap when you have super low amh like me. So I'm still not sure what to do about that. She is still hopeful for me and basically just says it's going to be harder for me to find a good egg but they are in there. So I'll just have to try and go with that I guess. We scrutinized my last two cycles going over all the differences and similarities and looking at all my scans as well. She talked a lot about how for her she really thinks it's less protocol changes that help and more just each cycle is different but also said she would be willing to do any of the protocols I felt like I wanted to try. We laughed a lot and had a very good talk, I could tell that she really wants me to try fresh transfers on day 3 to see if that makes a difference since we are having such shit luck with making it to day 5 with the lab. She still says she thinks that if it's going to make it to day 5 in the uterus it should also in the lab but also said that she has had plenty of women who after having no luck trying to get to day 5 in lab, have opted for day 3 fresh transfer and gotten pregnant. So there is no way to know if that cycle the embryos would have made it in the lab to day 5 had they not changed to a fresh transfer, but it's worth a shot.
After talking through all the protocols I was interested in and different things I was thinking of adding we settled on coming in right after ovulation to check out my situation and possibly start a luteal stim for one last frozen cycle and add in HGH. The HGH is my recommendation. She thinks based on my age I likely still produce enough on my own but I worry I don't because of auto immune issues so I'm gonna pay for it and we are gonna give it a shot. If it doesn't look like a good time to start, then I'll wait for AF to arrive and will do the A/ACP protocol which is pretty similar to what I was doing but adding Cetrotide to the beginning of the cycle prior to stims and adding HGH at some point as well. Looking at how low my FSH got from Estrogen priming she doesn't think I really need that either, but I just wanted to try something different.
So I'll try to get to day 5 with an embryo this round and then we shall see what I do after that. I'm trying to remain hopeful but it feels like if things keep going like this, I'm not sure what the point is to continue on. It's not like things will suddenly turn around. So we shall see. I'm leaving on vacation with the DH, for my friends lakehouse with his wife. It's my happiest place in the world so I'm going to try and just disconnect and relax. I of course have to get medicine delivers though so now it looks like I might end up telling them about the Ivf's and get the medicine delivered to the lakehouse. lol. Bad timing as always. Love to you all.
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
@babyhopeful442 Welcome to the group! I'm sorry that you are here but glad that you found us. These ladies are amazing and give so much support. Good luck with your appointment on Monday!
@hopeful_mom That is an awesome update. FX that everything works out for you!!!
@hopefuljj I'm going to move forward with the IUI. So far, I have 12 days’ worth of meds left so I should be able to start as soon as the RE approves it. I'm sorry to hear your status. I honestly feel that the doctors are just trying to figure it out as they go along. I'm glad your RE is willing to work with you and is letting you take control. Take some time for self-care and have fun at the lake house!
AFM- No AF yet but I'm having cramps. RE took my blood yesterday to see if I might be pregnant. Apparently, the test only reads positive at 50+hcg. They want to make sure before starting me back up again. I will be anxious until I get that call today. At this point, I just want to know so that I can move forward. I don’t like the feeling of being in limbo.
~AC~
Me: 31 | DH: 33 | Married: 11/11/2011
Me: Empty Sella Syndrome
AMH: 12/2016=0.97, 06/2017=0.70
TTC#1 (11/18-12/12/2016): Menopur 75iu increased to 225iu= 5mm follie * Cancelled
TTC#2 (3/17- 4/06/2017): Menopur 225iu increased to 300iu = 8mm follie RS& 7mm follie LS. * Cancelled
TTC#3 (6/20/17): Progesterone for 14 days.
(7/8-7/17): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 75iu= 5.59mm LS & 5.09mm RS.
(7/18-7/27): Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= 6.14mm LS & 6.23mm RS.
(7/28-7/30): Gonal F 150iu and Menopur 150iu= 11.6mm LS & 11.79mm RS.
(7/31/2017): Ovidrel shot - TIC 07/31-08/02/2017 - TWW- BFN
TTC#4 (8/25-Currently) Gonal F 225iu and Menopur 150iu= appt. on Wednesday
@hopeful_mom- yay for 5 in the game!! that is so awesome! I am waiting to see a great day 3 update today! How long is your new job? Hopefully you can still do your FET! since we are on a similar schedule, here are my dates- Lurpon 8/28, baseline on 9/6, monitoring on 9/13 and 9/20. THen transfer between 9/24-9/28. So its a good 3-3.5 weeks after you start AF. hopefully it will all work out!
@hopefuljj- Good to hear an update from you and glad your RE spent a good amount of time with you going over everything. It is very hard at this point in treatment since they really just don't know, and there isn't much option but to keep trying or move on to donor. And of course it is OUR decision and they really can't tell us what to do. Assuming you can swing it finanicaly, I think its definitely worth one more round to try to find a golden egg. I would just take it one cycle at a time, and then assess from there. So glad you are getting away! Its hard to tell others, but maybe talking it through with your friend will help? I hope you have the best time and forget about all of this for a few days!
AFM- got my med calendar and it looks like lupron starting on 8/28 and then continuing all the way until the donor triggers. Starting estrogen patches after my baseline. Then once the donor has retrieval, we will start PIO and estrogen. Not looking forward to PIO again (was on crinone last round and preferred that), but I think they always do PIO with FET protocols. Still spotting and hoping that goes away goes soon!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
@hopefuljj sounds like you have a great RE. Who's not giving up and you shouldn't either. Sounds like a good plan you've got going forward after your vacation. I understand how frustrating everything is especially with autoimmune disorders; i have hypothyroidism as well as psoriasis. My husband is convinced it's my autoimmune disorder that's causing my low AMH. I also understand that telling friends who haven't gone through infertility can be so hard. Most of my friends keep telling me to just relax and it will happen when it happens. I know they are just trying to comfort me, but relaxing is really easier said than done after 3 years and god knows how many ovulation kits and pregnancy tests I've gone through. Also, since i've gotten my AMH level, i've been reading forums day and night and day 3 transfers have really made a difference in other ladies that have not had luck with day 5. Either way, good luck and have fun at the lake house!
@AC93639 FX for you. It sounds promising! It would be even better if you don't need it and are already pregnant. Can't wait for your update! PUPO right?
@JamieH2000 hope your spotting stops soon. Yay for your med calendar! Everything is about to get real. I can't wait for you to meet your donor. What day is the retrieval scheduled in September?
AFM i called last week to find out my preliminary blood work results and that's how i found out about my AMH level. My RE's clinic doesn't release any test results until you've had a consult after with the RE. I didn't know this, so i called to have my results released to me last week and then cried for 2 straight days after finding out my AMH and having no one to talk to (my nurse said she can't interpret results and i have to wait to see the RE) I had my hormone levels done this past Tuesday (day 3 of my cycle) and i didn't call again to have my results released. I'm going to try to hold out until i see my RE on Monday so that if my FSH is bad, at least i can talk to her about it. On Monday is also my HSG test and i heard it's going to be very painful. All I've got is tylenol and advil and I still have to drive myself home after( DH has work and can't drive me). What was your experience with the HSG test? Was is very uncomfortable or excruciatingly painful? I'm nervous.
Age: 32 DH: 35
natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014
9/2015 chemical pregnancy
Initial workup:
AMH: 0.898 ng/ml
Antral Follicle Count: 5
FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml
LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml
Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
My RE will have me using crinone and the PIO (just not as often) I'm terrified of the PIO as I hear all of the horror stories! I think we'll be in it together for sure!! I'm stressing though as this new job now I'll still be doing a crazy week when its time. Not sure when I should hope AF shows up now
AC93639 really glad to hear you'll be moving on with an IUI if you need it...could be just want you need! Still hoping u will get a positive beta though
@hopefuljj- awesome update really glad to hear you got to go through everything with your RE. Its interesting hearing her thoughts on endo and to just keep going! I was going to suggest trying a 3dt as well...there is some magic to that process too!...just not testing. I would put all 3 in at this point.
I asked about HGH and my clinic does not do it, maybe that will be the magic potion that you need!!
I know its really hard to have faith in this process when the first 2 cycles have not been ideal to say the least. BUT remember there are people on this board that had poor cycles as well and the 3rd cycle was way better for them! Really hoping that will be the case for you!
Financially this sux balls on every aspect for sure!! Hoping you can continue to manage it! I didn't want to work prior to the FET BUT I need the money to pay for it so here I am....hoping it will work out for me in the end!!
Maybe you do another 2 cycles, try getting to 5day and the following do a 3dt? What about mini IVF? What does she feel about that? maybe thats an avenue you should think of visiting...could be cheaper too.
have a wonderful time away you deserve it!!
AFM: I've been typing this all morning you should know and finally got my update...not as promising as I would've hoped but they're still in it and thats what counts!! I have a 8A, 8AB, 8B , 6B and a 4C. I was hoping the one at 5AB would've been a 10 today...you know i'm an over achiever and I like my girls to do the same
I'm still the big marshmallow man in ghostbusters. And i'm not over exaggerating i look ginormous...I would think I was pregnant at this point if I didn't know me
Unexplained Infertility - but I am 40...Low AMH .30
7 - IUI (50mg-150mg Clomid) Feb - August 2016 all BFN
IVF#1 August 2016 (Antagonist protocol 4/5 eggs) Cancelled cycle
IVF#2 Sept 2016 (microdose luporn pro - disappearing follies, ONLY ONE, convert to IUI) BFN
IVF#3 November 2016 (4 ER, 3 F, 3DT)-BFP
IVF#4 March 2017 //EPP (10 ER (1 wonky so 9 ER) 7F, 3B (5AB, (2)5BB) PGS tested- ALL abnormal
IVF#5 April 2017 // EPP (7 ER, 7F yes! 6B) 2/5 day 4/6 day - 2 PGS normal! yes!!
IVF#6 May 2017 // Antagonist didn't have time for Estrogen Priming...(4 ER, 3 F, 3B) (5AB, (2) 5BB) 2 PGS normal, yes!!
IVF#7 June 2017 // EPP praying this is it and then on to an FET!
@hopeful_mom- Yay for great results. My clinic actually told me you want 6-8 cells on day 3 and if they are more, that can actually be bad if they grow too fast! So i think you should be thrilled with 4/5 in the optimal range! I hope you start to feel less bloated soon! I think your body is just saying i am DONE with the stims and ER!! Hope you gotten your FET protocol/calendar? I start lupron about 1 week before my baseline, and then add in patches after my baseline while continuing the lupron to keep the ovaries quiet. I just had a friend ovulate through a ton of estrogen during an FET, so it turned into more of a "natural" cycle.
For me, the donor starts around 9/10 I think, with ER estimated between 9/21-9/23. I should get updates whenever she has monitoring, so its going to be almost as stressful as me going through the process. but hopefully the results will be so much higher than mine, that it won't be bad news each time, but rather good news. DH did do a frozen sample just in case something came up (like a car accident or something), but he will go down the day of ER to give a fresh sample. I did PIO for 10 days during IVF #2, and it wasn't fun, but it wasn't horrible either. Hopefully it won't be too bad for you also. I would gladly take having to do it for 10 weeks to have a baby, but still not fun of course!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!
Age: 32 DH: 35
natural pregnancy DD 2012 TTC #2 since 2014
9/2015 chemical pregnancy
Initial workup:
AMH: 0.898 ng/ml
Antral Follicle Count: 5
FSH day 3: 6.56 mIU/ml
LH day 3: 5.24 mIU/ml
Estradiol day 3: 46.75 pg/ml
IUI 1-4 BFN
IVF #1 After ovulation was confirmed with progesterone levels on CD19. Cetrotide ½ dose X4 doses and minivelle was started CD 20 to continue through stim. Upon AF, started follistim 150 bid and menopur 75 bid on CD3. Started cetrotide 1 dose when biggest follicle reached 13mm. Retrieved 4 eggs out of 12 follicles, 2 PGS normal, FET #1 9/14/18 BFP beta#1 10dp6dt 369, 12dp6dt 1210
Homozygous MTHFR Cr677
DOR - AMH .27 High FSH (don't even know how high)
2 iui's to start - BFN
IVF 1 -3 made it do day 5! 2 5AA 1 6BB PGS results = all abnormal
IVF 2 - stimmed for 19 days. insanity. Had 5 follicles that looked mature but only 2 contained mature eggs the others were empty. Nothing made it to day 5
IVF 3 - added in HGH - 4 mature follicles (had some empties again) 3 made it to day 5/6 for PGS (held for testing with next retrieval
IVF 4 - Upped my dosage for the first time - Canceled 11 days into sims - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 5 - Canceled - looked like 1 follicle and we were afraid it was empty
IVF 6 - 3 mature, 2 fertalized 1 made it to day 5 and sent for PGS
Sent in IVF round 3 and 6 (4 embryos) for PGS testing and got 2 normal embryos!!! 1Boy and 1Girl. Took a little over a year to get those two embryos so demanded all sorts of test prior to attempting transfer. Did EFT, ERA and NK Cells testing.
FET#1 - Intralipid drips, Prednisone, and did a depot lupron shot before starting the FET protocol
Chemical pregnancy
FET#2 - PGS normal boy - BFN
Natural pregnancy - cycle following the FET2???? Miscarriage at 8 weeks. viability scan had shown an enlarged yolk sac so I had been warned that it was likely not chromosonally normal
DEIVF cycle - picked a donor who is willing to be open! Her cycle resulted in in 4 PGS Normal embryos
1st transfer - chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer - success, May 17 2020 due date!
Diagnosis: Mild Endo, DOR (AMH of 1.5), Poor Quality Eggs/embryos, Displaced Window of Implantation (ERA Post Receptive)
March-May 2016: 1 TI and 2 IUIs- BFN
June 2016- Laproscopy- found/removed mild endo and confirmed only 1 normal healthy ovary.
August 2016- IVF #1 with Antagonist Protocol- Cancelled (2 lead follies), converted to IUI- BFN
Oct-Nov 2016- IVF #2 with Estrogen Priming Micro Lupron Protocol, 2 eggs retrieved, day 3 transfer of 1- BFN
January 2017- New RE, IVF#3 with Estrogen Priming Antagonist Protocol, 12 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 2 day 5 early blasts transferred (none to freeze
May 2017- Sept 2017- Starting Donor Egg process! Waiting for donor to be available... and then she is pregnant at baseline
Oct 2017- Donor #2: 25R, 22M,18F, 12 blasts frozen! Fresh transfer cancelled due to thin lining with fluid
Nov 2017- Hysterscopy to remove polyp
Dec 2017- DE FET #1 on 12/8 on 2 perfect blasts- BFN and devastated
Jan-Mar 2018- ERA #1- Post receptive by 24 hours, ERA #2 RECEPTIVE with 4 days of Progesterone
Apr 2018- DE FET cancelled for lining issues
Jun 2018- DE FET #2 of two 1AA blasts- first BFP ever! Beta 10dp5dt- 378, Beta 14dp5dt- 2840, Beta 16dp5dt- 4035, beta 18dp5dt- 10916. Due on 2/20 with one baby after a vanishing twin
Baby Born born early @ 33.5 weeks due to Pre-e
Back for # 2!