Just retrieved ONE yes one egg from a traditional IVF cycle

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Anonymous wrote:Your AFC sounds really low so I'm surprised they kept you on such low doses of stims. Did you take birth control pills before stimming?

no i didnt. their thought was i didnt perform much better on high stims (300 gonal 150 menopur yielded 3 eggs) so why make me spend more on meds if i'm not a great responder

Have you considered moving on to DE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your AFC sounds really low so I'm surprised they kept you on such low doses of stims. Did you take birth control pills before stimming?

no i didnt. their thought was i didnt perform much better on high stims (300 gonal 150 menopur yielded 3 eggs) so why make me spend more on meds if i'm not a great responder

Have you considered moving on to DE?

yes, but I am 35 so I felt like I still have a year or so to exhaust OE before it becoming unrealistic.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP. That was my experience with two rounds of IVF (a third got cancelled for poor response). Same scenario for both retrievals: 2 eggs retrieved, 1 fertilized and made it to blast. 1st round did a day 5 transfer, second a day 3. Both resulted in chemicals. I was 33 at the time, diagnosis also DOR. After the two chemicals, RE figured the high doses of stims probably impacted the egg quality. We were going to try a mini cycle as one last hail Mary, but I actually ended up getting spontaneously pregnant that cycle, go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, OP. That was my experience with two rounds of IVF (a third got cancelled for poor response). Same scenario for both retrievals: 2 eggs retrieved, 1 fertilized and made it to blast. 1st round did a day 5 transfer, second a day 3. Both resulted in chemicals. I was 33 at the time, diagnosis also DOR. After the two chemicals, RE figured the high doses of stims probably impacted the egg quality. We were going to try a mini cycle as one last hail Mary, but I actually ended up getting spontaneously pregnant that cycle, go figure.

that's great! congratulations. where did you cycle?

[Anonymous]

Shady Grove, K Street office.

[Anonymous]

I think GW looking at approx 3 eggs on your E2 number is quite pushing. I notice that as women age, need more E2 to get more eggs (like E2=400/egg, so E2=1200+ will give you 3 eggs). Unfortunately, with E2 in 600s, I'd have to expect one or two eggs. GL on your next move!!

[Anonymous]

op here -- BFN!

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Anonymous wrote:op here -- BFN!

I’m so sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think GW looking at approx 3 eggs on your E2 number is quite pushing. I notice that as women age, need more E2 to get more eggs (like E2=400/egg, so E2=1200+ will give you 3 eggs). Unfortunately, with E2 in 600s, I'd have to expect one or two eggs. GL on your next move!!

I don't agree with this. 200 is about the E2 for a mature egg. It can actually be as low as 150-200 if I recall correctly.

[Anonymous]

I agree with PP. I'm 40 and I just had a retrieval on Monday My E2 was close to 1000 with 5 mature eggs retrieved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think GW looking at approx 3 eggs on your E2 number is quite pushing. I notice that as women age, need more E2 to get more eggs (like E2=400/egg, so E2=1200+ will give you 3 eggs). Unfortunately, with E2 in 600s, I'd have to expect one or two eggs. GL on your next move!!

I don't agree with this. 200 is about the E2 for a mature egg. It can actually be as low as 150-200 if I recall correctly.

This is interesting to me because my last cycle I had an E2 of 1700 and got just 4 mature eggs (from 7 follicles close in size). It’s bothered me ever since and RE had no answers. Anyone ever gotten an answer as to why this happens?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think GW looking at approx 3 eggs on your E2 number is quite pushing. I notice that as women age, need more E2 to get more eggs (like E2=400/egg, so E2=1200+ will give you 3 eggs). Unfortunately, with E2 in 600s, I'd have to expect one or two eggs. GL on your next move!!

I don't agree with this. 200 is about the E2 for a mature egg. It can actually be as low as 150-200 if I recall correctly.

This is interesting to me because my last cycle I had an E2 of 1700 and got just 4 mature eggs (from 7 follicles close in size). It’s bothered me ever since and RE had no answers. Anyone ever gotten an answer as to why this happens?

I think the 200 is just an estimate for how many follies there are. I had an E2 of 645 and only got one egg. I also had a previous E2 of 1200 and only got 3. So it's kind of a crapshoot and the 200/250 number is just an estimate. Also depends on your age and healthiness of eggs, etc.

[Anonymous]

Sorry op