Poor Ovarian Response

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Hi, I'm 31 next week with a low ovarian reserve for some unknown reason. We had a fresh cycle of IVF with transfer last summer, 8 eggs collected, 3 embryos made and one transferred. The remaining 2 were transferred as FETs on separate occasions because I have a bicornuate uterus, so they'll only ever transfer one at a time.

I'm having another fresh cycle at the moment and my follicles have pretty much stopped growing for the past 2-3 days. The scan today showed they'd only grown the tiniest amount despite being upped to 350iu of Gonal F. I'm now on 400 units until Friday when I have another scan. I was slow to respond last time but not as slow, on Menopur that time.

Has anyone had a slow response like this and still been able to go ahead with egg collection? I'm terrified they won't grow anymore and I'll be having to abandon the whole cycle with 2mm to go 😟

Thank you so much for reading.

Hi - I am 36 and have been trying for 4 years to conceive. Iam also a poor responder, have low amh, endometriosis and adenomysis.
I had a failed cycle on the nhs last year with no eggs collected.
I then went private and did a 3 cycle package to see if I could bank eggs.
First cycle was expecting 4 eggs and they collected 6 - ended with 1 day 3 embryo and 1 day 5 blast.
Cycle 2 3 eggs collected and got 1 day 3 embryo from that
Cycle 3 I only had 1 follicle that was big enough for all of my scans until the last moment and got 2 eggs one day 3 which was transferred fresh and 1 day 5 blast in the freezer.
Unbelievably the fresh one has stuck and received the call yesterday to say I'm pregnant!
Keep the faith as even with such a low number it really can happen.
Wishing you all the luck in the world!

I had an AMH level of 0.3 when I had IVF a decade ago, and was told I'd never get pregnant naturally.

Only 5 eggs were harvested and they put them all in the wrong solution so only one fertilised and thankfully it stuck.

I'd have no chance of getting pregnant going by what the clinic said, but I fell pregnant completely unexpectedly aged 40, 9 years later, and it upended my life.

I then heard the AMH test was found not to be a reliable predictor of fertility and now I'm inclined to believe that.

I cheated the odds twice, so there's hope!

Good luck OP

Hi, I am sorry you are going throught this. I am not an expert but some ladies have mentioned they used RPR or DHEA to improve egg quality. All the best