Fertility Questions - Page 6 of 12

Low ovarian reserve

I’m 41 and had a blood test to check my egg reserve. Was told it’s 2% and have a reverted womb. I’ve been trying for a baby for 12 months, is there any chance I can fall pregnant with an egg reserve as low as mine?

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Questionable Infertility

I have seen a fertility specialist and was told that my best option for a live birth was IVF with an egg donor. I am 37 years old and my FSH was 19 and AMH was .3. I'm wondering if I should get a second opinion or ask for the CCC test, Thoughts?

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Elevated FSH

I am 36 years old, and I’ve recently been told my FSH levels are elevated (1 of 10 & 1 of 12.4) but all other tests for me & my husband are normal. Not entitled to IVF on the NHS because of this so wondering where we can go from here? They have suggested Clomid, is this likely to work? I'm worried that due to elevated FSH we are running out of time.

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Isolated tetrazoospermia

My husband has been diagnosed with having very poor sperm morphology. His best sample has been 1% normal forms, but his count and motility is within range. Is ICSI the best option for isolated morphology problems? What would be the potential cause of this problem, and why would the motility and count not be affected?

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Very low AMH

I am 42 years old with an AMH of 1.7 pmol/l. I am still ovulating, have regular cycles and all other hormone tests i.e. Prolactin, FSH, LH, Oestradiol, Progesterone etc are all normal. I was told the best chance for me is IVF. Would IUI on a natural cycle be a waste of time for me with these results or is there still a good chance I could get pregnant through IUI/donor insemination?

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Fertility

I am a female aged 29 years old and 6 months ago I got married. I have a lymphnode in my pancreas area of 3 inch in size, so now I am going through anti TB treatment, rest reports are normal so now I wanted to know whether this disease will affect my fertility?

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Fourth time implantation failure

I'm 32 and have low AMH but I retrieved good quality eggs. Last time I transferred 8 cell A grade embryos, but implantation didn't occur. What are the reasons behind this? Please suggest what I should do next.

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Empty follicles?

Hi there, I am quite upset as just had my egg pick up last week and they retrieved only two eggs (which appear to be not right either). This is my second cycle. Our history: 3 miscarriages in 9 months (all very early), then moved on to IVF to try to bank some embryos to implant later with immune treatment.

First IVF cycle, no pill prior to it, Puregon 225IU daily and a day 10 collection and 5 eggs retrieved, though they were very different in sizes and only two over 17mm at trigger. None made it to blast. They did a 3 day transfer of a 10 cell embryo with mild to moderate fragmentation which didn’t work.

Second cycle, (current) they put me on the pill for 21 days, I then came off it for two days and started stims right away on second pill free day – 300 Puregon, 75 Menopur. I also was on Growth hormone for 8 days – 2.5iu daily.

My ultrasounds were showing six follicles that appeared to be mature (one in the left ovary and the rest in the right), sizes 14,15,16,17,19 and 22. Others were under 11mm. My oestrogen was 2045 pg/ml (I thought this would mean at least 4 mature eggs). However, they only got 2 eggs! This was a freeze all cycle, but seems like it was all for nothing!

I am 35 years 8 months, have an AMH of 8.6 (in Australian measurement which is 1.2 in USA measurements), my day 3 FSH has been between 6-8 (6 was more recent). Do you think this protocol is what has caused such a bad result? What do you think went wrong??

A blood test four hours post-egg pickup showed 140IU HCG (i.e. trigger worked), LH 0.1, Progesterone of 15.1. So I guess this is genuine empty follicle syndrome? What would you suggest in future? Should I bother going on the pill to cause more even growth?

I don’t know if there is any point doing IVF for us. The only things they have found is high uterine NK cells and homozygous MTHFR. All my T cell surface markers and cytokines have been in normal ranges last 2 months. Any help is very much appreciated!

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