Anyone with PCOS had problems with egg quality/chromosome abnormalities with embryos?

[Greyeverything]

I’m struggling to remain positive.

I have had a failed fresh transfer and a failed FET and most recently a FET that ended in a chemical pregnancy all with top quality blasts. Absolutely gutted as I really though it was finally happening this time!

Anyway I tried to reassure myself that we still have 5 embryos frozen BUT I’m reading ‘It Starts with an Egg’... I’ve just read about how PCOS suffers have a much higher chance of having poor egg quality and embryos with chromosome abnormalities 😫 I’ve never been told this by doctors. All I’ve ever been told is that it I’m not ovulating because of it and I have a high AMH which is common. Never have they mentioned poor egg quality so I’m panicking now big time 😭

In my fresh cycle we got 22 eggs, 10 fertilised all good quality, we only lost one when freezing. Great results I thought 👍🏻 now 3 failed transfers in I’m starting to think that potentially all those embryos are abnormal and this is why it’s not working because lining etc all seem great. The fact I had a chemical tells me that it’s possible for implantation to happen but most common reason for chemical pregnancy is embryo abnormality...

I’m trying to find out whether I can get my remaining embryos PGS tested but as I’m NHS I don’t know if I can. I don’t mind paying but I’m not sure they will even let me do it.

Can anyone with PCOS tell me their experience with egg/embryo quality? Is it likely that due to PCOS most, if not all, of my embryos are abnormal?

If I’m honest I’m really struggling to get over the chemical and having now read this about embryo quality I’m just so depressed about it all. Can’t see it ever happening for me.

Any comments welcome, sorry for the long post!

[patyfb04]

I'm in the same situation. I have PCOS, and already had 6 failed IUI, 2 failed FET, 1 FET ended up in ectopic pregnancy. I'm in the 2weeks waiting of the 4 FET and my last 2 embryos but Im not hopeful, after so many failures. I know your feeling. After the 3rd failure I read the book it starts with the egg and i'm taking lots of vitamins to increase my egg quality.

[Greyeverything in reply to patyfb04]

Have you had your embryos PGS tested at all?

I’ve started supplements but can’t do anything to improve the already frozen embryos that’s the issue 😩

[patyfb04 in reply to Greyeverything]

I started the vitamins 2 months ago (right after the 3rd FET failure) already thinking in the next IVF round because I'm not hopeful about this last FET, because I just heard about the book when I already had the embryos frozen so there wasn't much to do at the time if they were already frozen. I never thought about PGS because my doctor never asked for that. Just after the 3rd FET failure she thought about doing more tests. I'll be doing other tests like ERA test, PGS, etc to increase my chances. I don't think there's much you can do by now, if you already have frozen embryos...