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[quote=Anonymous]I was 43 at the time of my final cycle, which was done at my doctor's urging because he underestimated the implantation potential of the embryos I had already banked.

I did estrogen priming with a higher dose of stims than I had done before.  Also used HGH for a few days at start of stims and triggered with Lupron.  I had more than 20 eggs retrieved, but the physical quality was significantly worse than it was in the cycles I did at 40 and 41.  Most embryos arrested in the dish before day five.  Three were tested on day five, and one was normal.  I never ended up transferring it because we ended up completing our family with a 100% success rate doing transfers from banking cycles I did at 40 and 41.

I realize I was lucky to get a normal at 43, and I have no idea if the higher doses and HGH helped or hurt.  I do know that in the cycles where I used the lowest doses with a natural day one start, I had fewer eggs retrieved but a bigger percentage of genetically normal, highly-graded day five blasts.  In the cycles where I was put on higher doses of meds, I had more eggs retrieved and more blasts, but fewer normal and more middling grades.  Doctor thinks it was just the normal variation that occurs in egg quality from month to month.[/quote]

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