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[quote=Anonymous]Egg #-wise, you seem to be doing well this cycle, so best of luck!

I had issues getting blasts, too, but I'm over 40, so a little different.  I've done 7 cycles total, and 3 (cycles 3-5) at SG.  I'm wrapping up cycle 7 soon.  Cycles 1 and 2 had no blasts and few eggs.  SG did get me more eggs (all with estrogen priming on max doses of stims), but still not great quality.  In one cycle we did a fresh day 5 transfer of a morula, 1 cycle was a FET of a day 6 blast, and another cycle a fresh day 4 transfer of 2 still good looking embryos.  Each cycle at SG I got between 10 and 14 eggs. I did really like SG and save a bobble here or there, they are incredibly easy to work with.

I went back to the RE I was initially with and did a natural cycle and then a mini-stim (at my request based on a consult with Cornell).  NC egg wasn't mature.  The mini-stim cycle has been a totally different ballgame.  I got 3 good blasts out of 9 eggs.  The clinic I'm at now only does frozen transfers b/c studies show that stim meds are bad for implantation.  The changes it'll work are still low for me, given my age, but it's still a drastic improvement, particularly give that the stims were less than 1/3 of what they were in prior stim cycles.  I do take supplements, but have been since right after my first cycle which was over a year ago, so there really wasn't anything else different between at least the last 2 cycles I did at SG.  Everyone is different, so I'm not really advocating a mini-stim, but more that you ask questions (perhaps get second opinions - consults are usually about $650) and advocate for changes when a particular route isn't working.[/quote]

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