anyone over 35 going for fertility treatments this year? IUI, IVF etc

[DaisyQ]

Let's hear the birth story!!

 

[Springy]

Hi Sarah daisy told me the good news!!! He is stunning!!!! Huge congratulations to you and DH. I can't wait to hear how you make out and do keep in touch!

 

[crystal443]

awww Sarah he is beautiful!!! Love the cheeks and lots of hair

 

[crystal443]

It is scary, and frustrating. Everyone is different. Some people like lilylove, drsquid and sarahincanada respond well to the stimulation drugs, have a fairly large number if eggs retrieved, good fertilization results, and good egg and sperm quality, which leads to a high proportion of blasts for transfer, so they end up extra embryos to freeze. Others are not so lucky. Out of 12 eggs retrieved, I only had three blasts. We had ours screened for chromosomal abnormalities, and one was abnormal, leaving us with 2. Of the two, one did not survive the thawing process so we were only able to transfer one. Thank goodness it worked, because if not, we would have had to started over from scratch. If we want siblings for this baby, we will have to do another cycle (or several). And I've seen others go through this and wind up with very few eggs retrieved, or poor quality, and have only one embryo to transfer. Its hard to know how it will go for you until you try. My only advice is to be an informed patient, do the research, pick a top clinic with high success rates in your age bracket, elect for chromosomal screening if it's available, and be your own advocate. I'd also consider starting on micronized dhea (25 mg three times a day) and coQ10 (600-800 mg daily) immediately to optimize egg quality.

I agree with everything Daisy said, I am one of the unlucky few that IVF does not work well for me I have yet to even get anything to fertilize but when it works well for some ladies it works really well. There's no way to know until you try Definately start taking DHEA and CoQ10 and my FS was also telling us that zinc is important as well for egg health and for the final maturing process

 

[Rona]

Congrats Sarah! He is so cute!

 

[DaisyQ]

True - I took a b complex with vitamin c and zinc along with my regular multivitamin.

I also took myoinisitol and melatonin, and baby aspirin.

 

[DaisyQ]

True - I took a b complex with vitamin c and zinc along with my regular multivitamin.

I also took myoinisitol and melatonin, and baby aspirin.

 

[Suzi Q]

True - I took a b complex with vitamin c and zinc along with my regular multivitamin.

I also took myoinisitol and melatonin, and baby aspirin.

Is baby aspirin considered an NSAID? I bought low dose aspirin (thought it was the same as baby aspirin) but it said it was an NSAID on the bottle so I didn't take them. My doctor hasn't told me to take it, but it seems a lot of women do. Is this something your doctor told you to take or did you just take it for good measure?

Has anyone on here taken Royal Jelly? I started that last week. Supposed to help with egg quality.

 

[DaisyQ]

To my knowledge, baby aspirin is the same as low dose aspirin, and I was under the impression that it is not a NSAID. I had read that it may improve blood flow to the ovaries and uterus. I asked doctor m about it and she was neutral on it - I guess there have been conflicting studies.

 

[Flipperty]

Huge congrats Sarah he's gorgeous

Well guys - this is it for me

I did post here

https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/t...63-signed-our-consent-today-starting-ivf.html

Final bloods taken for hubby and I today - and we are good to go next week!

I will get my drugs delivered mid week and I go on Friday to go through my protocol and to show me how to go on with my injections, I have my first at the clinic.

I am soooooo excited but a sudden huge pang of nerves have come over me, so many questions and so much I feel I have no idea about......

I am praying this works for us.

If anyone here can answer my question on the amount of follicles I had at my scan I'd appreciate it ...

cheers all xxx

 

[sadie]

Congratulations, Sarah!! He is beautiful!! xoxo

 

[Rona]

Hi Flipperty,

Good luck with your IVF.

 

[Flipperty]

Hi Flipperty,

Good luck with your IVF.

Thank you

I have PM'd you xx

 

[crystal443]

True - I took a b complex with vitamin c and zinc along with my regular multivitamin.

I also took myoinisitol and melatonin, and baby aspirin.

Is baby aspirin considered an NSAID? I bought low dose aspirin (thought it was the same as baby aspirin) but it said it was an NSAID on the bottle so I didn't take them. My doctor hasn't told me to take it, but it seems a lot of women do. Is this something your doctor told you to take or did you just take it for good measure?

Has anyone on here taken Royal Jelly? I started that last week. Supposed to help with egg quality.

Baby aspirin and low dose aspirin are the same thing FS has put me on it so I guess its ok but I will warn you AF can look pretty messy while taking low dose aspirin so heads up. I also take Royal Jelly, not sure if it helps but it can't hurt Here's what I take

DHEA-75mg
Royal Jelly- 2 capsules per day
Zinc- 1 75 mg per day (Leading up to ovualtion it gets put up to 2 per day)
Prenatal
CoQ10- 300mg per day (some ladies take more)
B complex
Vitamin D- 4000mg per day(I am deficient so this is prescribed)
B12 injection monthly
Folic Acid
Reservatrol
Vitamin C
low dose aspirin

 

[Flipperty]

Paid for my drugs - they all arrive next week - Start on Friday evening .... My day 21

We go to the clinic for my first injection and to go through the protocol....

Everything's going through my mind now..... nerves excitement and most of all hope.... Praying hard for us - and all of us wanting our babies xxxx

 

[Rona]

Good luck Flipperty. Hope this is the one for you.

 

[crystal443]

Good Luck Flipperty

 

[Bravemom]

Sarah he's beautiful ,

 

[Lola41]

i just turned 41 this week and found out i am pregnant! we did FET and my beta is 179. i couldn't believe it. this was my 3rd attempt after one failed IVF, another IVF that resulted MC last month. but we had one frozen embie from the last IVF cycle and that is the one that stuck. i highly recommend acupunture for at least 6 months. my acupunturist said she sees a ton of success rates from FET because you are not on all the drugs makes sense.

 

[LillyLove]

Congrats LOLA!!!!!!