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[quote=Anonymous]If there were 15 follicles that they harvested, but only 4 eggs, it could have been an issue with the trigger timing or dose/type.  I used a lupron trigger once and got a number of "empties."  (they're not really empty, but they can't get the egg)  You'll always lose some that will be too mature or immature, but 4 from 15 is low.  I'd expect that to be more like 10ish mature eggs if you have the normal reduction in #s.  However, to get 100% to fertilize and 3 blasts from only 4 fertilized eggs is fabulous.  It's really about what you'd expect to get if you had 10 eggs mature eggs retrieved, so overall, I think you're in great shape.

I had the best response in terms of # of eggs from estrogen priming, using an estrogen patch and using a higher ratio of Gonal (Follistim) to Menopur.  First round I got 8, but that was with estrace pills and equal ratio.  Then I got 13 with the adjustments.  I also did a lupron flare, but only got 5 eggs from that and early on it looked like it might only be 1.  I had AFC of 9-10, FSH 6, but my AMH was 0.8.  Nothing has worked yet, though.

I'm going to try a minimal stim - I was always on really high doses of stims (400 Gonal and 125-225 Menopur).  Theoretically, this gets a low # of better quality eggs (kinda like it seems you did!) [/quote]

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