Hello everyone, I'm new to the group....just looking for moral support and others in the same process to chat with, especially since the DH and I are keeping our infertility struggles private from friends and family at this time.
A little history, DH and I have been together for 4 years, married about 18 months and TTC for 18 months with the RE and about 6 months before that. I have 4 children from previous marriage and my younger years, for which I never had an issue with conception, but did have 4 early miscarriages between my last 2, which was then attributed to my newly diagnosed thyroid condition 14 years ago. My children are 22, 20, 17 & 14.
I had my tubes tied with last child and had a reversal in hopes of getting pregnant, but after 6 months of trying and being 39 at the time....I went to see an RE. I should mention I had an ectopic not long after the reversal, still have the tube...it was in my abdomen and a spontaneous 6 week miscarriage. My baseline screen by the RE 18 months ago showed that I had no egg reserve and my day 3 U/S had low follicle count. Regardless, they decided to give me a chance. I had to try 3 IUI attempts before my insurance would pay for IVF, so we did that first....I was canceled several times for cysts and elevated baseline estrogen and was able to try 2 injectable cycles with IUI. Both with a max follicle count of 2 at time of trigger shot with high doses of stims. The insurance agreed to allow the IVF and counted my canceled cycles, so we moved forward with IVF. I only got one IVF attempt in...high doses of stims and got 2 follicles...RE allowed us to proceed to retrieval vs. Cancel because I begged. We got 2 eggs...1 fertilized and they did a day 3 transfer of a 1A embryo that divided to 5 cells rather than the preferred 6 at that stage. BFN from that transfer :-(
The RE decided to try a special protocol to see if he could suppress any cyst growth and rest all the follicles in hope they will respond better...but they didnt...I had one follicle growing and I was canceled. At that point they gave us our only option of donor eggs, stating it was unethical for them to keep stiming me.
DH originally wanted to try a couple times with our own DNA before considering donor eggs, so I'd say we gave it our best shot. The RE told us from the beginning we'd likely need a donor. DH checks out fine...so we're going to use donor eggs, his sperm. We have currently selected a donor and she is almost done all the prerequisites, waiting for her genetic testing results and then if all checks out, we will hopefully plan for a June or July fresh cycle. We are using an anonymous donor from our REs bank....praying she does well for us, this is her first time....so she's not proven. I'm almost second guessing our decision to not choose a proven donor...I didn't realize that may be a better option until reading thru some posts on here. Due to the donor egg cost, we can really only afford this one donor round. Thankfully we get all eggs retrieved and can freeze any leftover good embryos...so fingers crossed that all goes well.
So enough about me...I look forward to reading about everyone's journeys and baby blessings.
Jenn
A little history, DH and I have been together for 4 years, married about 18 months and TTC for 18 months with the RE and about 6 months before that. I have 4 children from previous marriage and my younger years, for which I never had an issue with conception, but did have 4 early miscarriages between my last 2, which was then attributed to my newly diagnosed thyroid condition 14 years ago. My children are 22, 20, 17 & 14.
I had my tubes tied with last child and had a reversal in hopes of getting pregnant, but after 6 months of trying and being 39 at the time....I went to see an RE. I should mention I had an ectopic not long after the reversal, still have the tube...it was in my abdomen and a spontaneous 6 week miscarriage. My baseline screen by the RE 18 months ago showed that I had no egg reserve and my day 3 U/S had low follicle count. Regardless, they decided to give me a chance. I had to try 3 IUI attempts before my insurance would pay for IVF, so we did that first....I was canceled several times for cysts and elevated baseline estrogen and was able to try 2 injectable cycles with IUI. Both with a max follicle count of 2 at time of trigger shot with high doses of stims. The insurance agreed to allow the IVF and counted my canceled cycles, so we moved forward with IVF. I only got one IVF attempt in...high doses of stims and got 2 follicles...RE allowed us to proceed to retrieval vs. Cancel because I begged. We got 2 eggs...1 fertilized and they did a day 3 transfer of a 1A embryo that divided to 5 cells rather than the preferred 6 at that stage. BFN from that transfer :-(
The RE decided to try a special protocol to see if he could suppress any cyst growth and rest all the follicles in hope they will respond better...but they didnt...I had one follicle growing and I was canceled. At that point they gave us our only option of donor eggs, stating it was unethical for them to keep stiming me.
DH originally wanted to try a couple times with our own DNA before considering donor eggs, so I'd say we gave it our best shot. The RE told us from the beginning we'd likely need a donor. DH checks out fine...so we're going to use donor eggs, his sperm. We have currently selected a donor and she is almost done all the prerequisites, waiting for her genetic testing results and then if all checks out, we will hopefully plan for a June or July fresh cycle. We are using an anonymous donor from our REs bank....praying she does well for us, this is her first time....so she's not proven. I'm almost second guessing our decision to not choose a proven donor...I didn't realize that may be a better option until reading thru some posts on here. Due to the donor egg cost, we can really only afford this one donor round. Thankfully we get all eggs retrieved and can freeze any leftover good embryos...so fingers crossed that all goes well.
So enough about me...I look forward to reading about everyone's journeys and baby blessings.
Jenn