Hi all,
I have just had one failed IVF-ICSI. I am 32 and DH is 34, my AMH, Thyroid, Progesterone, FSH and Antral Follicle Count all came back above average and I have regular periods and regular ovulation. My DH has a sperm count of 5mil.
However when we did the IVF I barely responded to stims, poor growing follicles and only 4 eggs. Of these 3 fertilized but by day 5 we only had one that wasn’t even at Blastocyt and got a poor grade.
My frustration is with the clinic. I wanted to do a DNA Frag test to see if we also have a fragmentation problem that would explain why our embryos were so poor and I want my meds to be increased as my response was nearly worse than someone with female factor. The clinic say there’s no point in doing a DNA Frag test as it’ll still be ICSI and that they’ll increase my meds from 150 to 175 of Gonal F which seems tiny and unlikely to make much impact.
It feels a bit like the definition of madness to do the same thing over and over and expect different results.
We were constantly told at the start that they expected my response to be great and to get great quality embryos due to our age and no female issues.
Does anyone have any advice? Am I overreacting? Are the clinic being unreasonable?
We don’t really want to change clinic as it’s very close to both our work, linked to the national maternity hospital and I also have a tricky embryo transfer and they’ve done a trial and perfected how to do it. But I don’t want to go through next round with toy bit better stimulations then another increase then another increase with no change to my DH plan (I’ve read taking sperm from testicles can help with high DNA fragmentation)
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Stressed out with clinic - please help
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AnnaSteen · 26/04/2019 11:19
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