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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might consider DHEA - I looked into it, ordered it and then chickened out when my endocrinologist looked horrified when I raised it with her. Does it help with quality or quantity? I think maybe the former- in which case perhaps not really what you need, though better quality is certainly better. To get the number of eggs retrieved higher, I think your RE needs to get more aggressive with your protocol. Hopefully he/she has a revised plan. As I recall, over the course of my three retrieval cycles, my medication doses did ramp up some.

By the way, there are countless women on this forum doing IVF in their early 40s - [b]perhaps all the negativity getting thrown at OP is down to lack of information on current freezing technology[/b] but I’ll say it again: freezing now and doing IVF later presents very similar chances of success as IVF now.[b] A conservative estimate is that 90% eggs survive the thawing process.[/b] After that unique hurdle, the challenges of fertilization, implantation, chromosomal normality etc are basically the same as straight up IVF. [/quote]

No, it's not lack of information, it's because we *are* well-informed. Vitrification has been standard for eggs/ embryos for many years. Most people on this board probably have experience with it. My friend with vitrified eggs lost ALL of them at thawing, and had no chance at biological children at that point. I lost a vitrified, chromosomally normal *embryo* at thawing, which isn't likely, but it happened to me. And if your eggs aren't chromosomally normal (which most of them aren't once you're 40), vitrification isn't going to fix that. OP needs to be realistic about her options at this point.[/quote]

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