If you used supplements to improve egg quality for IVF

[Anonymous]

If you used supplements to improve egg quality for IVF, what did you use? What dosage? How long did you use it? Do you think it helped you?

S/N: I'm a patient @ CCRM and I have a quite a cocktail of recommended supplements to use.

[Anonymous]

CoQ-10, DHEA and melatonin. I don't remember the dosages, but I think I used what was recommended in It Starts With the Egg. I can't be sure it helped, of course, but my RE was pretty dim about my prospects initially and was very pleasantly surprised with my retrieval (16 eggs). We noe have 1.5 year old DD plus 4 more PGS-frozen.

[Anonymous]

I have moderate DOR and am taking 600mg CoQ10, 75mg DHEA, 5mg melatonin, plus a vitamin D supplement (it was low), prenatal, and fish oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CoQ-10, DHEA and melatonin. I don't remember the dosages, but I think I used what was recommended in It Starts With the Egg. I can't be sure it helped, of course, but my RE was pretty dim about my prospects initially and was very pleasantly surprised with my retrieval (16 eggs). We noe have 1.5 year old DD plus 4 more PGS-frozen.

Wonderful. How old were you?

[Anonymous]

Would love to hear what’s on your cocktail list from CCRM (supplements and doseages).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CoQ-10, DHEA and melatonin. I don't remember the dosages, but I think I used what was recommended in It Starts With the Egg. I can't be sure it helped, of course, but my RE was pretty dim about my prospects initially and was very pleasantly surprised with my retrieval (16 eggs). We noe have 1.5 year old DD plus 4 more PGS-frozen.

Wonderful. How old were you?

I was 37. Also remembered that I took (and am still taking) a vitamin D supplement, 5000 mcg and a prenatal of course. I started taking all of this about 5 months out from retrieval.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear what’s on your cocktail list from CCRM (supplements and doseages).

Same here. Could you post?

[Anonymous]

I have been taking 400mg of CoQ10 twice per day and 2000mg of myo-inositol (Pregnitude) twice per day for three moths in prep for my IVF cycle, based on CCRM's suggested supplements for PCOS. I also take prenatals, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium and fish oil. If taking CoQ10, you should consider buying the ubiquinol version, which is easier to absorb. I agree that It Starts with the Egg has good recommendations as well, and that book also notes that myo-inositol isn't useful in women who don't have PCOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear what’s on your cocktail list from CCRM (supplements and doseages).

Same here. Could you post?

COQ10- 400mg twice a day
L-Arginine 1000mg twice a day
Vitamin C 500mg once a day
DHA 1000mg once a day
Vitamin E 400IU once a day
Melatonin 3mg at bedtime
Pycnogenol 100mg twice daily
DHEA 25 three times a day
Myo-inositol 750mg 3 tabs/twice a day

I don't take all of these because my testing isn't complete yet so my RE doesn't know my situation and what I need yet but I am doing the C, E, DHA, and COQ10 (400MG/DAY of ubiquinol. I'll know more soon about what else I will need to take.

[Anonymous]

Which CCRM location are you at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which CCRM location are you at?

Colorado.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear what’s on your cocktail list from CCRM (supplements and doseages).

Same here. Could you post?

COQ10- 400mg twice a day
L-Arginine 1000mg twice a day
Vitamin C 500mg once a day
DHA 1000mg once a day
Vitamin E 400IU once a day
Melatonin 3mg at bedtime
Pycnogenol 100mg twice daily
DHEA 25 three times a day
Myo-inositol 750mg 3 tabs/twice a day

I don't take all of these because my testing isn't complete yet so my RE doesn't know my situation and what I need yet but I am doing the C, E, DHA, and COQ10 (400MG/DAY of ubiquinol. I'll know more soon about what else I will need to take.

It takes about 90 days to see the effect of supplements on your egg quality.

Please stay away from L-Arginine folks. And honestly be careful with this cocktail list. It is specifically for people with DOR I believe. With the exception of the vitamins and CoQ10 I would be very careful with taking these other items unless you are being followed by an RE who recommends the entire list of treatments. As someone who was where many of you are years ago, I found this same list and took l-arginine along with ubiquinol. L-arginine really messed up my cycle. I know for a fact it did because I did IVF that cycle (90 days later) and had high fragmentation which I did not have in any previous cycles. Fragmentation typically doesn't change cycle to cycle unless something is impacting it. I subsequently read the chapter in It starts with the egg about L-arginine and l wouldn't you know, it had the same effect on me as the book mentioned. Mind you I was not DOR so that may have also played a significant part. Please just be careful about trying things.

[Anonymous]

DHEA (not DHA) is also one you should be careful of. It’s a precursor to estrogen and testosterone so it will affect hormone levels. Definitely don’t take it without doing your research.

[Anonymous]

For those of you ladies who tried the CCRM cocktail list, would you say it worked? Would love to know your outcome. And difference before you took it and after.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I am DOR and took Vitamin D, DHA, DHEA, CoQ10, and Melatonin. Did 5 cycles and didn't seem to make a difference at all, unfortunately. DHEA had nasty side effects too - cystic acne, facial hair growth, etc.