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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 9/4/2014, 16:01 poster who found this posting. To all of you who did DE, I think you took a good decision rather than putting your bodies through never ending IVFs with own eggs. My issue is I am "relatively" young (35 now and I was 33 when we started the process), and I have a few normal embryos from PGD right now. My RE wants me to try those out before I take next steps. First 4 IVFs were done without PGD and all of them failed. Then we banked embryos through the next set of cycles and did PGD testing. I feel very exhausted now and not sure if there is any light at the end of the tunnel. I am in the 5+ cycles category. [/quote]

8:42 here again.  I was also pretty young when we were going through this process (started trying at 32 and was 35-36 during the heart of our IVF tries.  For some reason our RE had us do IUI's for a while before moving to IVF.)  I think one of the reasons that our RE had us keep trying with OE was that we were relatively young.  The truth is that most people who go for fertility treatments at this age end up with a kid, so I feel like REs keep thinking that they can figure it out.  We took a 6 month break and then set up a donor egg cycle, so I was 37 when I got pregnant with DE (38 when I delivered.) For me, I wish I had gone to DE sooner.  (Although then I wouldn't have my exact kid, who is amazing, so I like to think that things worked out the way they were supposed to.)

You are in a tricky spot because you have frozen embryos.  We never had that so I have no advice.  My instinct would tell you to go ahead and try them since you have them and just going the implantation is a (relatively) cheap part of the IVF process.  DE is very expensive, so you have to consider that. Do you have enough money to use your embryos and then do DE if it doesn't work?

Whatever you decide, good luck. As a 5+ IVFer, you are in the small minority of the population who have really been through the infertility ringer.  I hope that you have success with whatever decision you make.

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Well, we have to work out finances if we have to go the DE route. We did multiple cycles to get those normal embryos from OE. It's hard when it's out of pocket. Hopefully at least one of those works out. Thanks for your wishes. [/quote]

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