Egg collection- more than half my eggs 'abnormal'

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Long story short, having IVF for MFI. first cycle of icsi 11 eggs 2 of which were abnormal, swapped from long to short protocol and got 20 eggs about 8 abnormal, 1 good blast but bfn. Third cycle on the same short protocol but a few extra days of stims, 19 eggs but found out today 10 were abnormal and 3 immature so only 6 could be injected of which 4 have fertilised.

Needless to say I'm pretty devastated. Each cycle my number of abnormal eggs seems to be getting worse despite adding supplements and more protein and green veg to my diet. I'm a little overweight and do admit I probably eat too much sugar could that be enough to explain poor egg quality? My AHM and AFC were fine and I had a hysteroscopy to check for anything affecting egg quality but nothing was found.

Can protocol be affecting egg quality? The embryologist said it's unlikely and just the eggs I have anyway but on the long protocol I didn't get many abnormal eggs?

Anyone gone through anything similar who found out the cause?
I know it's still too early to predict what will happen so just trying to take each day as it comes. xx

My egg quality got much better when I changed from short protocol to natural modified IVF - previously on short protocol was getting 14 eggs each time but less than 30% were fertilising and average/low quality blastocysts - when I changed to natural modified IVF I was getting 2-7 eggs but 100% fertilised and top quality blastocysts- I don't think diet plays as much of a part as doctors would like Us to think x

@tiggerwhocamefortea thanks, I will keep this in mind. IVF is really such a rollercoaster isn't it. X

It seems like you're doing as much as you can, have you asked your clinic if they suggest anything else to try?

@dutchessmom thank you xx

Could age be a factor? I think issues with abnormal eggs increase after age 35 (which I am so no doubt may have the same issues ahead...)

@Rosiestraws I'm 30 :/ xx

Ah that seems unlikely then...

I guess the clinic is the best place to advise you then... sorry i can't help..

Can I just ask... when is it they tell you they're abnormal? Is it something they can determine just by looking at them like when they decide if they're immature or mature on the day of egg collection? Or is it only when they fertilise etc? Sorry I'm just asking for selfish reasons as I'm doing egg freezing and wondering if they'll be able to know/ check this on egg collection or i wouldn't know until I use them?

@Rosiestraws they told me after egg collection. All they said was there were 'abnormal structures' which meant they weren't suitable to inject for isci. I will admit I didn't ask if it was conventional IVF if they would have been ok, as we have known from day 1 we needed icsi Xx

@Rosiestraws I was told a couple of hours after my EC whether they were mature and also whether there were any abnormalities detected. I had a few immature eggs but no abnormalities found but I must be honest I’m not entirely sure what they consider ‘abnormal’ for egg freezing! But they can tell prior to egg freezing. Of course that doesn’t preclude further abnormalities being found when they fertilize later on.

Ah ok thank you for the replies and sorry to hijack the thread.

@Rosiestraws don't worry and good luck xx