My first round of ivf failed in February (started with16 eggs, 12 mature, day3 8 were doing well, day 5 transfer and only one made it, and sadly with no frozens.
Before my next round I’ve started taking Zita West supplements. Has anyone seen an increase in the quality of their eggs by taking supplements?
I've been taking them - both my fertility nutritionist and acupuncturist said theu are better than pregnacare.
No idea whether they improved anything.....but I didn't go back to pregnacare. We got a good standard of embryo.
Good Luck with your journey!
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I took ubiquinol which is meant to improve egg quality. I also switched to as much organic food as I could. It’s hard to say whether it made an improvement but I got more blastocysts on each round.
I started seeing a nutritionist after our first failed IVF, we had 5 fertilised eggs from 7 collected, by day 5 only had one poor quality blastocyst and she suggested some supplements which are a bit more expensive than zita West and I might change to them when I’ve used up the ones I’ve got not sure how well they’re working with egg quality but my cycles have gone from being 23-25 days (which is an indication of poor egg quality and/or poor ovulation/low progesterone) to having 3 full 28 day cycles, getting all the right signs I’m ovulating, weight is coming down and my periods are less heavy and painful - all good signs that my cycles and hopefully my eggs are healthier 🤞 all you can do is try, I’m not emotionally ready to go through more IVF yet but hoping I’m making all the right changes that it will work, good luck with your next cycle x
I took Ubiquinol, DHEA and Omega 3 as well as regular conception vitamin in an attempt to improve quality. We are 17 weeks pregnant but changed treatment so am not sure what worked but I felt better doing something than nothing. xx
Regards to zita West - I did a comparison of zita West, pregnacare, conceive plus and woman’s select. I narrowed it down to zita West & pregnacare as the other two were lacking in some of the essentials.
Zita West has more selenium than pregnacare.
Pregnacare contains l.arginine but ZW doesn’t.
ZW contains coQ10 (ubiquinol/ubiquinine) but pregnacare does not.
ZW also contains Alpha lipolic acid, pomegranate extract, lutein and lycopene. I wasn’t sold on these last 4 things as not heard enough about them...so I opted for pregnacare and bought extra selenium and coQ10 as it still worked out cheaper and pregnacare are 3 for 2 at Tesco 
Hope that helps xx
Coq10 / Supplements / Donor eggs
Massive drop off in fertilisation rate after higher dose stims, alternative trigger and lots of supplements
Should we postpone to get benefit of CoQ10 supplements?
Supplements while undergo ivf treatment 
