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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes these doctors pull statistics out of the air. I wonder how he came up with 5% when you gave birth less than 2 years ago.
How old are you?[/quote]

I'm 37.  My AMH is .01 (almost 0).  My FSH is 15.  My antral follicle count is 4.  In other words, all these numbers are pretty bad (I have the ovaries of a 44 year old).  It's very odd that I got pregnant on the second month of trying naturally.  I had an easy, healthy pregnancy and delivery.  But it's unlikely I can get pregnant again.  I'm not willing to go through IVF for such a low chance of success.[/quote]

OP, I spent 5 years in IVF treatments with similar stats and finally conceived my first child with DE. You were lucky you got pregnant easily with these stats. You may be lucky if you do IVF but you have to consider the cost and the emotional toll if you do not succeed. I was successful on my first round of DE. If you carried a pregnancy once, you could carry again and, if egg quality Is your only issue, you may want to consider using donor eggs. You will not have to go through stimulation and will only take estrogen for your lining. We used frozen eggs and it was really easy to schedule the cycle, we used RBA in Atlanta.

I hear you. And I know how you feel. I want a subling for my daughter and I am older than you and worry that I may not have time. I can't forgive myself that I spent 5 years trying to conceive with my own eggs, when I could have spent that time with my kids. [/quote]

OP here.  Thanks for sharing your story.  For me, I can't believe that I had these "bad" numbers when I got pregnant right away 2.5 years ago.  I think I probably had okay numbers then, and got lucky getting pregnant quickly, but maybe then things deteriorated really quickly with my egg quality to end up with such bad numbers now.  Because now it's been 10 months TTC and no pregnancy, and with an AMH of .01 and a high FSH the lack of getting pregnant makes sense.

Anyhow, I am not going to do traditional IVF--not for me with such low chances of success.  But I may do donor egg.  Egg quality is my only issue that I know of.  I am also looking into RBA in Atlanta.  From my research that seems to be the best place for donor egg.  The whole IVF process for donor egg scares me though.  Did you have to do PIO injections?  Can you tell me more about the meds?  I have had all my initial testing done.  Where did you do local monitoring?  Thanks.[/quote]

I had AMH of 1.1 at age 34, it was undetectable 2 years later. So yes, your hormones rapidly could change. I also had very low antral follicles count and we could only retrieve 2-3 eggs regardless of protocol and medications. It does not mean the same would happen to you. It is more of a question how long you could wait, keep trying and how you would bare the financial burden. In my case, I had a very good health insurance otherwise I probably would have stopped trying with my own eggs after 1-2 cycles( I ended up with 8)

I did not do PIO. I did progesterone suppositories and estrogens pills. This is all you need for a donor cycle. Believe me the medications for a donor cycle are nothing compared to what you need to take when you do own egg IVF. We saw dr Shapiro in Atlanta and loved him. Did local monitoring at CFA with DR Abassi in Arlington. [/quote]

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