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[quote=Anonymous]CCRM Lone Tree is definitely the clinic of last resort.  They used a lot of innovative techniques and options that other clinics do not use such as different triggering techniques, different culture to increase fertilization, human growth hormone, Acai clinic study....etc.

All that being said, I didn't end up getting pregnant after three cycles there and thawing of eggs I froze in my thirties. They gave me the donor egg speech, and I had to regroup. Despite great retrievals of 16 to 19 eggs, they were all "dark" colored and had poor fertilization rates.

Afterwards I did a really horrible cycle at Shady Grove Fertility Center in which they overstimulated me, and of course, it failed. My last cycle was through Walter Reed (The ART Institute of Washington, Inc.), and it worked.

I had a long discussion with the director of the laboratory at Walter Reed while waiting pessimistically for my egg retrieval which was delayed. In her experience, IVF was a crap shoot. She nor any of her lab technicians could calculate who would be successful or who would not. Many women came to their center after multiple failures and became pregnant while others who failed at Walter Reed would get pregnant at the next clinic. She said there was no way knowing whether the sperm or egg was the issue unless you experimented with donor eggs and donor sperm to tell if it was more of an "egg" vs "sperm" quality factor.  There were just too many variables involved. Success was guaranteed by two things:  a good egg and a good sperm. Her theory: IVF is like gambling....the more you play, the more you increase your odds of winning...however small those gains. The one factor she could identify is that the difficult to get pregnant couples were more likely to find success if they continued trying.

I thought CCRM was my Hail Mary, but it wasn't. I realized it is really about trying over and over again until you find the right egg AND the right sperm. In my experience, it isn't about finding the "right" clinic. Just my two cents....I could have afforded a lot more IVFs with what I paid CCRM....and the cost to travel there.[/quote]

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