Age 30, I can’t make blasts
EDIT - had a call this morning from the lab, it’s day 5 and I made one blast! It’s such low quality it can’t be frozen, but I’m so happy and feel this is a move in the right direction atleast?!
I’ve just had my second egg retrieval, and it’s looking like I’ll have the same zero blast outcome that I had the first time. I’m 30, live in the UK, and I have no idea what to do
AMH: 21.2 pmol
AFC: 23 follicles
PCOS.
regular cycles (only with insolitol) and never had a positive test.
IVF cycle 1
Gonal F original dose was 150, but it ended up being increased to 450 because I was a very slow responder. I stayed on this for around 17 days. eventually ended up with 23 eggs retrieved, 19 mature, 13 fertilized with ICSI and all arrested on day 3.
IVF cycle 2
started taking 1500mg metformin and 400mg COQ10 for three months prior.
switched to menopur. starting on 150mg and increasing to 375mg. egg retrieval was 13 days after beginning stimms. 10 eggs retrieved, 9 mature, 7 fertilized with ICSI. As of day 2, I have six still progressing but apparently the quality isn’t great and similar to last time. I have 1 x 2 cell, 2 x 3 cells, 2 x 4 cells and 1 x 5 cell.
i’m using my husband‘s frozen sperm (he passed away). Sperm has been described as looking ok apart from being a bit slow, hence why we’ve used ICSI. My eggs apparently look fine, apart from some not offering much resistance when injected.
I don’t thing omnitrope is available for IVF in the UK. My clinic (along with most others it seems) don’t have Zymot.
is it worth considering doing another round with donor sperm to try and get some answers?