2have4kids
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Hi all, we've tried so hard to get preggers and now that we're going to Czech to do donor egg IVF, our coordinator mentioned her story with unexplained IVF and I thought it was really interesting.
She said that unless you shell out between $2000-$10,000 for autoimmune testing, you won't know if you are having one of many immunity issues that fs's won't test for. So having arthritis and a mom with the same IF issues that I do, she suggested low dose therapeutic prednisone while I go through the donor egg IVF, just to cover all bases. She said normal dose is 20mg or more but they only use 10mg to ensure my body won't attack the embryo since I haven't had the testing. I think it's a great idea, I'm so sick of failure and so depressed right now, well, it really hurts. I can't handle another failure especially when we're going across the world and having to go the donor egg route.
Had I known this I would have asked my gp for low dose prednisone while we were ttc for at least a few months out of the last 3 years. If autoimmune is my problem, I may have been able to get preggers naturally, just like she did. She did all the testing and then took heparin, prednisone, baby aspirin, the typical concoctions in the studies in the link below. They keep you on the low dose until you get scanned for the heartbeat and then take you off it then.
Would anyone else try this? Do you think it's a weird thing?
I read a little on prednisone and it's giving me more hope:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscarriageresearch/supplements-and-miscarriage/prednisone
She said that unless you shell out between $2000-$10,000 for autoimmune testing, you won't know if you are having one of many immunity issues that fs's won't test for. So having arthritis and a mom with the same IF issues that I do, she suggested low dose therapeutic prednisone while I go through the donor egg IVF, just to cover all bases. She said normal dose is 20mg or more but they only use 10mg to ensure my body won't attack the embryo since I haven't had the testing. I think it's a great idea, I'm so sick of failure and so depressed right now, well, it really hurts. I can't handle another failure especially when we're going across the world and having to go the donor egg route.
Had I known this I would have asked my gp for low dose prednisone while we were ttc for at least a few months out of the last 3 years. If autoimmune is my problem, I may have been able to get preggers naturally, just like she did. She did all the testing and then took heparin, prednisone, baby aspirin, the typical concoctions in the studies in the link below. They keep you on the low dose until you get scanned for the heartbeat and then take you off it then.
Would anyone else try this? Do you think it's a weird thing?
I read a little on prednisone and it's giving me more hope:
https://sites.google.com/site/miscarriageresearch/supplements-and-miscarriage/prednisone
