How many ICSI/IVF/FET before a positive - POLL

[chocci]

Hey sorry if this has already been done but i am in need of inspiration after failed ICSi and trying to console myself with people who also had a first time failure but then got lucky 2nd, 3rd or 4th time with either fresh cycle or FET. Would love to hear your stories in a nutshell and it might cheer me up thinking there is always hope x

 

[Mendy]

I would love to see some results on this as well, as my first ICSI failed and I'm currently going for round #2.

 

[jam-on-toast]

Hi ladies, sorry to hear that things havent/didnt work out for you as wanted.

Things will happen for you - fingers crossed & baby dust.

We had 3 BFN IUI's then opted for ICSI as we didnt want to wait any longer.

Fortunatley for us our first ICSI was successful and we now have a very healthy and happy 13month old daughter. It was a blessing and I count my lucky stars everyday.

 

[chocci]

Would be good if we could have some info about embryo quality, any problems people had, how they felt during 2ww wait etc?

Come on girls there must be more of you out there with some stories of encouragement, we would love to hear them

By the way, thanks jam on toast!! Glad you got your well deserved BFP after a few tries!! x

 

[chocci]

Maybe i should post a link to this post on the pregnancy boards or something? what do you reakon?

 

[akcher]

My problem was irregular cycles. When I do ovulate, it would be an immature egg. I don't produce enough hormones. I tried Clomid for 3 cycles. I did FSH injections for 3 cycles. All were BFN. We were lucky to have our BFP on our first IVF/ICSI cycle. We retrieved 15 eggs, 10 fertized. Out of the 10, 5 were growing normally as of day 5. I had 3 grade A embryos and 2 grade B. We transfered 2 grade A embryos.

 

[chocci]

Thanks hunny, any more inspiration and encouragement out there? x

 

[chocci]

My problem was irregular cycles. When I do ovulate, it would be an immature egg. I don't produce enough hormones. I tried Clomid for 3 cycles. I did FSH injections for 3 cycles. All were BFN. We were lucky to have our BFP on our first IVF/ICSI cycle. We retrieved 15 eggs, 10 fertized. Out of the 10, 5 were growing normally as of day 5. I had 3 grade A embryos and 2 grade B. We transfered 2 grade A embryos.

Hey Akcher would you mind me being nosy and asking how come you had to have ICSI? Was there male factor involved to or was it strictly female reasons? X Congrats by the way X

 

[Dilek]

Would be good if we could have some info about embryo quality, any problems people had, how they felt during 2ww wait etc?

Come on girls there must be more of you out there with some stories of encouragement, we would love to hear them

By the way, thanks jam on toast!! Glad you got your well deserved BFP after a few tries!! x

Hi Chocci and girls,

I am 27, DH is 33 I have severe and aggressive endometriosis and have had 2 surgieries in a year to my reproductive organs and then I was on down regulation drugs for 4 months before i could attempt my 1st IVF. I am one of the Maybe Baby girls and i was on 450iui of menapur and suprefact. I was on 5 days at 1st at 300iui menapur drugs but by day 6 scan i only had 5 follicles. I was almost classified as a poor responder and then i was given the max dosage to stimulate my ovaries. AT EC I was told there were 10 follicles, and only 5 eggs.

The next day it embyologist called and confirmed we only had 1 egg!!!!!!!!
At ET, FS confirmed the other 4 eggs were fragmented and immature and i was LABELLED WITH BAD EGGS at 27!!!! Those 4 eggs were tossed in the bin and fertilisation was not attempted. Its tough hun, very tough. I dont know how i got through it. But our only egg that was fertilised through ICSI was grade 1 and 8 cells on day 3. A perfect egg. The doc almost had given up on us and we were talking about our next protocol. And here i am just over 5 weeks pregnant.

I call it a miracle. My consultant has confirmed the disease of endometriosis is the worst possible fertility issue you can have besides a histerectomy. Endo affects egg quality, it sends toxins to your womb kills a chance of a baby, it glues ovaries to your bowels and affects the ovaried functioning, it causes failure with implantation and high chance of misscarriage. I have had this disease for just over a year!!!! I do feel very lucky and feel we have been blessed and this road we have to go through is so tough and my heart goes out for us girls who have to go through this many times. I did not want to offend but wanted to send an encouragement and answer your questions.

I hope the road gets easier for you and your DH.

What i did in the 2WW? I was in allot of pain and was bloated, as the stim drugs causes endo to grow. I was at home most of the time and slept through out the day. The 2nd week my mum and brother have been here from sydney and we have been travelling london together. It helped to take my mind off things but i lost it. Its natural. I have a journal in this section and feel free to go through it. I also subscribed to fertility friends and its a site of hundreds of ladies going through IVF.

I hope i have helped some way and pray our survivor stays with us.

 

[akcher]

Thank you! My husband was going on a business trip so he had to freeze some sperm. His morphology is little low so the doctor suggested we do ICSI to get more viable empryos.

 

[chocci]

Dilek, thanks so much for taking the time to respond, and WOW congrats on your BFP, i wish you all the luck and love for the future and lots of sticky embie vibes XXX Take care hun and best wishes, will have a read of your journal too XX

My story in a nutshell was we had pretty good result all way though considering the quality of my DH sperm we did pretty well. After hearing your problems Dilek, i count my blessings that i do not have problems like you and have to suffer pain like endo We had approx 16 follies little dissapointed with only 10 eggs but think some were immature...not sure need to ask. My clinic has an average of 7 eggs (not like in americ where you seem to get 40 eggs per cycle from massivly over stimming!) Out of the 10, 9 could be injected with ICSI, 5 fertilised which is not a great number but we had qulaity on our side and 4 were top quality and 1 just below. Embryologist was positive at our results.

I do wish i had made them transfer 2 of my embies now though, i feel its the biggest mistake i made in my whole story so far, they said due to "young age" age (i am 33!!!! haha), having the best embryo quality and my so far good history (no probs identified) basically only one should be transfered.... i would say to others do what you want to do, i feel mine did not work as i was negative from the day they transfered only one, i had it in my head i wanted 2 transfered so it sent me in a spin really....i know thats all nonsense but then we have to believe in stupid things like that to get us through our failures and give us some reasons i suppose !!
Stick to your guns and do what you want to do if you want 2 have 2, see, my apparently "perfect" embryo did not take, since then i have read many people who transfer apparently poor quality embies thinking they will not take AND THEY DO, i tell this just in case someone is reading it thinking i only had one "poor one" transfered....truth is they dont really know what is good and bad they can only choose ones that look good..... this does not mean to say they are......many lower grade embiees result in great, perfectly healthy babys!!!!

We need more success stories girls....come on XX

 

[chocci]

Arhhh ic akcher, i understand now x

 

[vineyard]

2 IUIs, both medicated, and our first ICSI worked. I'm 17 weeks pregnant with twins. We had decreased sperm motility and I wasn't ovulating consistently.

I started with 16 eggs, 11 were mature, 9 fertilized. By day 3, 8 of the 9 were going strong and by day 5 there were 3 left. 1 was perfect and 2 were mediocre so we put back all 3.

 

[latestarter]

Hi there,

Well my first IVF was a bust. Didn't do ICSI though. They completely gave me the wrong stimulation protocol the first time and overstimulated my ovaries. By the time I had my first blood draw (4 days of stims) my E2 was over 5000. We stopped it then and I had to start with a new protocol 3 months later. So now I'm 8 weeks pregnant with twins. It was heartbreaking to fail the first time around, but so worth it to get to the second where they knew how I would respond.

Before IVF I had 8 IUI's and 2 of those were with clomid.

Good luck!

 

[chocci]

Thanks girls, and congrats on your BFPs and pregnancys and all the luck for a healthy bouncing baby!! Anymore inspirational stories out there?? xx

 

[chocci]

Come on we need more, i think i am gonna go to fertility friends.co.uk soon as that board seems to get far more response!

 

[vineyard]

Go to the May IVF thread. There are tons of s there.

 

[chocci]

I have been on there, would but would be nice if people shared there stories on here so its all in one place never mind, i have praticially given up on this forum, people dont seem to be able to be assed!!

 

[Mervs Mum]

I have been on there, would but would be nice if people shared there stories on here so its all in one place never mind, i have praticially given up on this forum, people dont seem to be able to be assed!!

You cant make people answer your threads hun

 

[Lilly123]

I have an idea.. lets post a thread with IVF success stories... which details how many times it took before BFP, how many eggs, how many embies, how many embies transferred and then reason for infertility. what do u guys think?

xxx