Fertility and time limits. Realistic chance of success?

[Ruth_the_friend]

Hi all. I'm new to this website and to fertility treatment, so please forgive me if I ramble. I'm 29 years old and have always naivley presumed I would one day be a mummy. Recently my doctor told me that I must start taking a new medication which causes birth defects. (more info on my profile if interested) I've been given 5 months to get pregnant and have told doctors that if I do, I will go through the pregnancy with no medication. (This would cause me great pain physically, but would not halm a baby) I would then have to get a historectomy before starting the medication, to eliminate the risk of further pregnancy. Basically the doctors have said that 'it's now or never' and that this is my once chance as I will then be on the medication for life. My first fertility appointment is on 28.01.19. I am a tablet controlled diabetic, I weight about 14.5stone (on a diet right now), have high blood pressure and Psoritic Arthritis. I don't wear Rose coloured glasses and i am realistic. Do you think they will put me forward for Ivf straight away, knowing the situation? Has anyone, with similar conditions, managed to get pregnant quickly with the support of fertility experts? Thank you for reading this and for any information you may be able to provide. Lots of love, Ruth x x

[Kempton]

Hi Ruth. I don't have a similar experience but what I would say is that youth is on your side. At 29 your eggs are still young (ish) so are hopefully better quality. I was around your age when I went through ivf after many years of unexplained infertility, or subfertility as I prefer to call it.

I only had a few eggs but the embryos that we ended up with were high quality and I got pregnant after my second transfer, sadly the first embryo didn't stick. My baby is absolutely perfect, it's hard to believe that he was once frozen (really, I just can't get my head around it - science is amazing! ).

Obviously your situation is different but the experts would only give you the best advice.

Good luck on your journey!

[Flimzee]

Hi there, gosh what pressue - I thought the ticking of my body clock was hard enough. Do you mean to get ivf on the nhs or privately? Although you never know, I am not sure NHS would fast track you, given everyone’s experiences of accessing ivf on nhs and the typical (long) care pathways. Are you able to fund privately? As the previous person said, age is on your side. Wishing you success with it all xxx

[jengi]

Hi Ruth,

If you have the funds available, it might be worth considering going privately as they will treat you much more as an individual and more quickly. The first things they will do is assess your AMH to look at your egg reserve, if this is good then this is great news. I started my journey on the NHS in Jan last year and started my first IVF treatment in May. After my first appointment, there were tests that needed to be done and once these were done and they gave me the go ahead to start there was a 2 month waiting list to get my nurses appointment to show me the drug protocol and how to use the drugs. Then I had to wait for my period to start the drugs so all together this took 5 months. It is worth chatting to a few private clinics. Feel free to private message me if you want to ask any other questions. Good luck my lovely

[jengi in reply to jengi]

Also I should mention that at my first appointment they weighed me and took my BMI. Some NHS clinics require you to be within the normal BMI range to start treatment, however with private clinics this may not be the case.