Ivf chances decrease the longer you have been ttc - anyone heard of this or know why?!

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As the title really! We have been try for 2.t years and it will probably be around the 4 year mark by the time we save for it. However, I have seen the longer you have been ttc the less likely it is to work. Does anyone know why? We have severe ME I and I have PCOS so it's not like we have any chance of conceiving naturally anyway, so why would it make any difference if we have been trying for 1 year or 5? If anyone can explain I'd really appreciate it. Tia x

Hi OP

I don't know for sure but presumably people who have been trying for longer are also older?

Speaking from person experience, my fertility declined rapidly beyond anything the specialists had seen before. The reason: my body was pumping out eggs naturally without any meds/drugs/stims at the rate of 8 a month which would answer your question.

Common sense would tell me that as you age the less fertile you are. As time goes on, your fertility lessens

The other thing is, people whose fertility issues respond well to IVF don't need to keep doing it, because they have success through an early attempt. If you succeed on round one or two, you don't progress to round three or five or eight. There's a lot that's still unknown about fertility and why and how IVF attempts may succeed or fail, and there may be people it just isn't going to work for - some for reasons we can currently understand and others for reasons we don't yet know about. This is likely to be the case for some of the people who have been through large numbers of attempts without success.

Women are born with the eggs they will produce for their lifetime. We cannot generate anymore. Therefore the longer we try the less eggs (supposedly) we will have. This is why they say a women's fertility declines rapidly after 35