Five failed IVF attempts

[ttcsince2017]

Hi All,

I just wanted to reach out to the mumsnet community and see what options I should explore.

I am 32, have endometriosis and have had five failed IVF cycles.
We collect a good number of eggs each time approx 12. However, the embryos are either highly fragmented, not dividing as expected, slow growers or poor quality. I have had a mix of day 3 transfers and a day 5 transfer with embryos which haven’t quite reached blastocyst. None of my embryos have ever reached blastocyst so I haven’t ever had any to freeze either.

I have tried combinations of Accupunture, fertility massage, healthy eating, supplements as recommended by “it starts with an egg” but nothing has made a difference so in my recent cycle I just decided to go with the flow instead and have a balanced diet with folic acid, vit d and coQ10.

I have been on a prostap followed by a combination of menopur and gonal f recently 450ui but still had no luck.

There are no Male factors as we have done all the tests.

Does anyone have any advice on what we should think about next please.

Xx

@Curious92 apologies for the late reply. I am going for is natural modified IVF this time. Just had my egg collection and they retrieved 5 eggs. Just hope they fertilise now

@ttcsince2017 Good Luck and Hope for the best 💐
I visited my doctor today and he suggested to go for second round of IVF and I asked him what will be different this time and what he understood from my previous cycle.
He said this time we will go for long cycle and will try to get and transfer two embryo at the same time.
I actually don’t know how long cycle is different from short cycle and will it work or not

@ttcsince2017- really curious as to how your natural modified IVF cycle ended? I'm about to give it a try

Hi @Namechange8787,
I’m afraid I’ve had no luck so far. I have just had a laparoscopy for endometriosis and then will try my third cycle in a few months time

@ttcsince2017
Thanks for replying. What a rollercoaster. Did you get any embryos from your natural modified cycles? x

@Namechange8787 nope, it was heartbreaking :(

I can only imagine. I'm so sorry. I'm sure you've heard of the book 'it starts with the egg', thought I'd mention it just in case x

I see you have from your first post, sorry. I couldn't conceive until I used thriva.co to get ALL the tests done. I realised my TSH was higher than it could be, my b12 was nuts, my liver wasn't perfect and my omega3 to omega 6 ratio was off the charts. Low omega 3, high omega 6. I took charge, researched supplements and brought all my levels to normal over 6 months and towards the end of this time conceived naturally by surprise. I also used bromelein that cycle (took it for a few days after realising i was pregnant). Sadly the bean didn't stick past 8 weeks, but I think all that helped with conception, or maybe it was just that during that time i wasnt trying to conceive!!

During this time my focus was on getting my body to optimum levels for a future ivf attempt so the pressure was off a bit. Coincidentally I started weekly accupuncture 4 weeks before I conceived to help me with headaches I was getting pre period, so maybe that also contributed.

Anyways, I'm now at that future IVF attempt after a failed IUI but hope all I did to help me conceive naturally and the continuing of weekly accupunctire like last time makes this successful. My accupuncturist is also going to put me on 'womb herbs' which is Chinese medicine I think. Best of luck to you. Dont give up X

There is always the donor egg option. But it's a big decision.

I would've considered adoption or surrogacy