Poor response to IVF age 39. Is there any hope?

[Annabel82]

Hi all,

Wondered if anyone had any experience of this? We had our first round of IVF a couple of months ago. We weren't successful. However, the embryologists were positive and said it had been a good round. Although we had a 4AA embryo, we only got three eggs. One developed slowly but was not good enough to freeze by day 6. The other didn't fertilize normally.

Having got a 4AA embryo, we felt relatively positive and assumed it could just be a case of keeping going (despite low egg numbers) until we found our golden egg. However, when we had our consultant review she seemed very disappointed with my poor response. She is willing to up my dosage to 450 meriofert for a second round but didn't seem very hopeful about our prognosis overall.

I'm feeling very defeated. Is it worth continuing? My AMH was 6 when tested over a year ago and my afc is 10 but according to a sonographer 'some of them aren't doing much.' I've had two miscarriages over last two years.

Any words of advice would be much appreciated,

TIA

@TwinkleInMyEye123 Sounds hopeful to me when you put it like that. Keep going xxx

@TwinkleInMyEye123 I had a round with 3 AA blasts and didn’t get any normals when PGS testing. Next round only got 1 BB blast and decided not to bother testing and just transfer and it stuck. Did NIPT testing and all fine so presume it was a normal. So it can just be bad luck and the grade they give doesn’t seem to mean much! Had a previous BFN with a AA embryo as well.

@Dochas12111 thats great news. Congratulations x

@Dochas12111 That’s really encouraging to hear. My clinic have said they see this happen a lot and that they don’t put so much emphasis on grading now for this reason.