I did a three day transfer. When I was there (9 years ago) they did a lot of co-culture, which is only good for 3 day transfers anyway. I had several 8 celled embryos left that I did not transfer on day three but none of them made it to freeze. To this day, I regret not pushing harder to have them freeze something. They had very high standards for what they will freeze. They say this is because they don't want to waste your $$$. But I did not have the money or ability to go back to Cornell for another fresh cycle so I couldn't have another kid even though I wanted one. For me, it would have been worth it to freeze on day 5 even for a 1% chance of a later pregnancy. I realize I am not going to get any sympathy from people trying desperately for DC1. I am sharing this only because if you too can only afford one trip to Cornell, I recommend begging them to lower their standards a bit on what they will freeze for you. And good luck

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Anonymous wrote:He does low dose stim with clomid start. I did a variation of this protocol with femara start, low dose stim, HGH, prednisone, metformin and neupogen. A lot better survival rate to day 5, but alas, all of mine were PGS abnormal. Close, but no cigar...

Did you use femara because of a bad reaction to clomid? Did Dr. Davis prescribe the prednisone, metformin and neupogen (and what were those for)?

clomid results in thin lining sometimes. Femara is similar, but is used off label. The rest were prescribed by immunologist in home country in Europe. Davis/Cornell don't do immune stuff.

Anonymous wrote:He does low dose stim with clomid start. I did a variation of this protocol with femara start, low dose stim, HGH, prednisone, metformin and neupogen. A lot better survival rate to day 5, but alas, all of mine were PGS abnormal. Close, but no cigar...

Did you use femara because of a bad reaction to clomid? Did Dr. Davis prescribe the prednisone, metformin and neupogen (and what were those for)?

He does low dose stim with clomid start. I did a variation of this protocol with femara start, low dose stim, HGH, prednisone, metformin and neupogen. A lot better survival rate to day 5, but alas, all of mine were PGS abnormal. Close, but no cigar...

You have better numbers than I did in my twenties. He does low dose + clomid in cases of dor or bad quality. He does day 3 for me, since I don't make blasts. I don't know his thoughts on PGS, because I don't make blasts.

I'm 40 years old with an AMH of 1.2, AFC of 8-9 and FSH of 14.5.

I've done multiple cycles and all of them have involved very high doses of drugs and pushing to Day 5-6 for PGS testing. I have a lot of drop off from Day 3 to Day 5 and struggle to get a decent number of embryos to blast for testing. Of the blasts so far, I miscarried 1 PGS normal and have 1 PGS normal banked.

Because time is not on my side, I'm thinking ahead should the next FET not work. For us, I think our next and last step before DE would be Davis.

I'm curious about your protocol if you worked with him:
Did he do lower dose stims?
Did he recommend 3 day transfers if you had limited numbers of blasts?
What were his thoughts on PGS?
In general, what's his approach or philosophy with DOR/high FSH?