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[quote=Anonymous]Hope you're changing your protocol and/or RE -  it makes a difference.  Egg numbers aren't everything.   There are some stats that show little improvement after 6 cycles and essentially none after 9.  Those are slightly older stats, but if you consider that technology has only improved, you'd expect those numbers to go down, not up.

I went 4 rounds with plenty of eggs, but low #s of blasts (2 different protocols, but higher doses of stims), plus 1 where I did a day 3 transfer before deciding that whatever was going on was not worth continuing.  I didn't test b/c of the low blast #s and insurance didn't let me do embryo banking.  I then did 2 NCIVFs and a mini-IVF.   I had the best results with a mini-IVF (similar to Cornell's recommendations), 3 blasts out of 7 fertilized eggs, but it ended with a chemical.  It was my last round.  I was over 40 when I started, so continuing at 43 seemed stupid on a number of levels, better results or not. Hopefully, you have better luck!  I did DE and the first transfer of a normal took.

Unless you are a high consumer of the personal care/cleaning products, I doubt it makes a huge difference, but there are plenty of products that have known toxins, including endocrine/hormone disruptors, in them, so it's just good to avoid them generally (and probably even more important when you have a baby).  I avoided those products before I did IVF anyway.  I think being generally healthy (i.e., reasonable weight, exercise and diet) is helpful, but I doubt the supplements are any sort of magic bullet, although I did take them and think that the ubiquinol was good.  I tried acupuncture, too, but didn't do it for my DE transfer that worked.[/quote]

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