Don't try this at home - a lot of people do not do better with higher levels of Gonal-F or whatever it was.

I did multiple rounds of IVF when I was 42. I still have some frozen embryos from that time. On the 4th or 5th cycle the drs on duty were pessimisitic about my stimulation results and my actual dr was out of town. I had skipped a cycle so I had extra stim drugs (can't remember which) and I just increased it myself. I had also read that the trigger shot should be weight based so I gave myself two trigger shots. I didn't tell anyone about that but the research was clear that overweight women need a higher dose and I had multiple cycles where I had more large follicles than mature eggs at retrieval. My dr encouraged a high number to transfer on Day 3 and it all worked out and I had a health pregnancy healthy baby at 43.

Anonymous wrote: I began trying for my first baby at age 42. Elevated FSH (16.4), low AMH (0.15) AFC never higher than 5. Severe DOR diagnosis, given less than 2% chance of conceiving with own eggs, got the donor egg IVF speech. I conceived on my 4th round of IUI, my son was 5 in early December. Hope is out there. If interested I've written blogs about how I took charge of my fertility that I'd be happy to share. xo

This is interesting because I've been TTC for 5 years with way better numbers than you and also younger and I have not had a single positive pregnancy test. This is also with doing IUIs and IVF. I eat mainly organic, exercise, do yoga, and have a low stress lifestyle. All tests normal other than low AMH (.60). Also had a lap, didn't help.

Anonymous wrote: I began trying for my first baby at age 42. Elevated FSH (16.4), low AMH (0.15) AFC never higher than 5. Severe DOR diagnosis, given less than 2% chance of conceiving with own eggs, got the donor egg IVF speech. I conceived on my 4th round of IUI, my son was 5 in early December. Hope is out there. If interested I've written blogs about how I took charge of my fertility that I'd be happy to share. xo

I am interested. Please share. Thank you.

I began trying for my first baby at age 42. Elevated FSH (16.4), low AMH (0.15) AFC never higher than 5. Severe DOR diagnosis, given less than 2% chance of conceiving with own eggs, got the donor egg IVF speech. I conceived on my 4th round of IUI, my son was 5 in early December. Hope is out there. If interested I've written blogs about how I took charge of my fertility that I'd be happy to share. xo

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Anonymous wrote:My SIL had #s so bad she couldn't do IVF, but ended up getting pregnant naturally after trying for over a year. She was late 30s.

I was 42, and docs gave me pretty good odds, but no luck after many cycles and nearing 44, I did DE.

NP, Did you get frozen eggs or use a fresh donor? How many DE transfers into did it take untli you were pregnant? Did it workout successfully?

Fresh proven donor, but we had MF. We looked at frozen, but docs recommended against it bc of the MF. Based on the results, we probably could have done frozen, but certainly no regrets! I'm 15 weeks after the first transfer.

We eventually did DE + GC. We have an awesome little kid. It's really about defining what your success parameters are.

Anonymous wrote:My SIL had #s so bad she couldn't do IVF, but ended up getting pregnant naturally after trying for over a year. She was late 30s.

I was 42, and docs gave me pretty good odds, but no luck after many cycles and nearing 44, I did DE.

NP, Did you get frozen eggs or use a fresh donor? How many DE transfers into did it take untli you were pregnant? Did it workout successfully?

My SIL had #s so bad she couldn't do IVF, but ended up getting pregnant naturally after trying for over a year. She was late 30s.

I was 42, and docs gave me pretty good odds, but no luck after many cycles and nearing 44, I did DE.

After 3 fresh 2 fet and 3 iui my RE said if this doesn’t work you need to move onto a gestational carrier. It worked and I have an almost 3 year old now!

I had PCOS and needed help ovulating. DH had low morphology and we were told that we needed IVF/ICSI to conceive. We chose not to and adopted instead. Three months after we brought our baby home, I got pregnant, much to our shock.

Diagnosed with severe DOR after 2 miscarriages in my early/mid 30s. Went on to have 1 healthy DD and am 18 weeks pregnant with another. Only "intervention" for our first was progesterone and estrogen after ovulation. Current pregnancy was conceived via medicated IUI (which was not likely to work, but it did!).

My RE didn't even expect my period to return after the birth of DD -- he thought I was really that close to menopause, with my numbers.

We struggled with unexplained infertility for 4 years starting in our mid 20s. It was a really dark time for me. At age 30 we spontaneously conceived twins.

Doctors had little hope for me (1% chance of getting pregnant on m own, less than 10% chance with IVF). I was unexplained secondary infertility/mild DOR. I was not able to get pregnant a second time over 4 years (have a son I got pregnant with quickly). I was shocked that they were so pessimistic because when I started infertility treatment my son was 15 months old. Anyhow it's been 5 years now and zero pregnancies.

Success stories when doctors did not have hope. I am in a situation like that. Any success stories will help