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So, had our Repromed appointment last night and here is all the results.
They did another blood test for chromosome defects, won’t have that result for 6 weeks though. But all my other tests were great. My resting follicle count (internal scan) showed 20 resting follicles which is normal, FSH was 6.7, also good and AMH which I really was shitting myself about was 20.9 (higher end of normal for my age). He said that my maternal age for conceiving was actually around 35 with these results. So feel fantastic after that. However, still doesn’t explain the miscarriages.
He said that he was reading only the night before new studies that have come out in England that it maybe with recurrent pregnancies loss patients (which I am now in), that if the egg doesn’t implant on a certain day it will miscarry. He said the study was new and only being trialled on animals at the moment, so not sure if it is accurate or not.
After the chromosome test, there is nothing left to test for and he is hoping it really is bad luck that we have had so far.
So the plan now is, try ourselves until the end of the year. If I’m still not pregnant with a viable pregnancy by then, in February I go in to have my uterus vacuumed for a biopsy to look for Natural Killer Cells which attack an embryo once implanted. It’s apparently a rare condition but he wants to rule out everything. Also for reasons they can’t explain, after you have it done, the success rates for pregnancy the next couple of months rises. However, he did say is was very very painful as they can’t numb the area because its inside my uterus and they use a vacuum type thing. Great, looking forward to that one!!!
And then start IVF in March. He seems to think that with my results and AMH follicle count I will response really good. There is a test that is brand new to Repromed, they have only been doing it for 6 months now and yet to prove it works 100% through studies but they are confident of it, where they test the eggs for any defects before they implant so you don’t waste time inserting an already defect egg which would cause miscarriage even if it took. That’s $500 an egg. Expensive exercise!!!
And again there is the problem that even if it takes, I could miscarry again and again but by testing the egg before implanting, they hope to lower that chance by not inserting a defective egg.
So that’s where we are at…………….happy though, I feel like there is hope, even if its going to cost a lot of money.
They did another blood test for chromosome defects, won’t have that result for 6 weeks though. But all my other tests were great. My resting follicle count (internal scan) showed 20 resting follicles which is normal, FSH was 6.7, also good and AMH which I really was shitting myself about was 20.9 (higher end of normal for my age). He said that my maternal age for conceiving was actually around 35 with these results. So feel fantastic after that. However, still doesn’t explain the miscarriages.
He said that he was reading only the night before new studies that have come out in England that it maybe with recurrent pregnancies loss patients (which I am now in), that if the egg doesn’t implant on a certain day it will miscarry. He said the study was new and only being trialled on animals at the moment, so not sure if it is accurate or not.
After the chromosome test, there is nothing left to test for and he is hoping it really is bad luck that we have had so far.
So the plan now is, try ourselves until the end of the year. If I’m still not pregnant with a viable pregnancy by then, in February I go in to have my uterus vacuumed for a biopsy to look for Natural Killer Cells which attack an embryo once implanted. It’s apparently a rare condition but he wants to rule out everything. Also for reasons they can’t explain, after you have it done, the success rates for pregnancy the next couple of months rises. However, he did say is was very very painful as they can’t numb the area because its inside my uterus and they use a vacuum type thing. Great, looking forward to that one!!!
And then start IVF in March. He seems to think that with my results and AMH follicle count I will response really good. There is a test that is brand new to Repromed, they have only been doing it for 6 months now and yet to prove it works 100% through studies but they are confident of it, where they test the eggs for any defects before they implant so you don’t waste time inserting an already defect egg which would cause miscarriage even if it took. That’s $500 an egg. Expensive exercise!!!
And again there is the problem that even if it takes, I could miscarry again and again but by testing the egg before implanting, they hope to lower that chance by not inserting a defective egg.
So that’s where we are at…………….happy though, I feel like there is hope, even if its going to cost a lot of money.
But at least you have your appointment on Wednesday.
