I just wanted to post my story on here as I ended up visiting mumsnet a lot for advice and reassurance when I was doing my IVF.
So I have ttc twice. Once with first partner for 2 years when I was aged 20-22. Nothing happened. We broke up.
Then tried for 4 years with current partner aged 26-30. Nothing happened. After 3 years I called docs. A year later and after IVF I am 17 weeks pregnant finally! IVF worked first time and we got 8 good looking embryos so a huge success.
The bizzare thing is there is absolutely no reason for our infertility. We are/ were both young (fiance is 5 years older than me). We are both active and healthy, perfect BMI's, no health conditions known about. His sperm are fabulous. Every test I went for I thought this is it, they will find my tubes are blocked or polycystic ovaries of endo or even poor egg quality/ low ovarian reserve at egg collection. Nothing. Everything's perfect on paper. The fact that I didn't get preg when I was with my first partner makes me think its def my body not cooperating and not him.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I just don't get why I couldn't do it. Unless it was just stress. My entire life has been pretty stressful and I have a load of trauma from childhood so part of me thinks it may be down to severe childhood physical and emotional abuse and neglect but there's nm research that that can cause infertility.
I just want to post this too because there's a lot of women ttc recieving bullshit advice like oh eat more greens or go for walks. Sometimes there is nothing you can do apart from IVF. I'm glad I didn't waste time doing daft diets and just got on with IVF.
Also I can honestly say the worst thing about IVF is worrying it won't work and also the ttc bit before IVF is horrible because you just feel like a failure. Thats worse than any of the appointments. I had a fab clinic though.