Hope after 5 rounds of ICSI & 10 transfers *sensitive*

[miracleneeded]

Hi All,

Last year when I was deep in my 4th round of IVF with no hope in sight, I searched on here for success stories from people in a similar situation as myself and found very few, so I thought I’d share my story in case there is someone out there right now looking for a glimmer of hope.

Our ivf journey began in Jan 2020, I was 33 and the outlook was good according to my doc. Throughout the year we did 4 rounds of ICSI, always getting good numbers of eggs, good fertilisation but very low numbers of blastocysts. Out of the 10 we transferred in 2020, only 2 were graded above a C.

By the end of round 4, I thought it was just impossible for us to have our own genetic children and started looking at the egg donor process.

I posted on here asking the community for advice and some lovely people reassured me to not give up hope, to seek a second opinion and have more tests done before moving down the donor route.

My husband persuaded me to see another doctor he had found for a second opinion and eventually we decided to give it one more try with this new doc. He changed up our protocol, added in the growth hormone and even took sperm directly from my OH’s testicles (even though he didn’t have fragmentation). He literally threw the book at us. From that we ended up with FOUR high grade embryos in the freezer!

Because we had already done ten transfers with our previous clinic, he allowed us to transfer two embryos with the hope that one worked…

Fast forward a couple of months and we are 12 weeks pregnant with TWINS!

What made the difference? Was it the new protocol? The change of lab conditions? The growth hormone? The testicular sperm? We’ll never know!

I hope this success story reaches someone who is feeling like they’re never going to get there, and gives them a little bit of renewed hope. Your rainbow baby could be just around the corner!

💜

[butterfliez]

What wonderful news , huge congratulations on your twin pregnancy

After all that treatment/ transfers finally this is your time , wishing you all the best with the pregnancy xx

[try2020]

Congratulations 🧡

[RhinoCat]

Fantastic story of hope on a Friday 🥰 amazing 🤩 congratulations 🥳

[Millbanks]

Aww congratulations! Love a happy story!! Best of luck with your pregnancy xx

[Picalilli99]

What lovely news - congratulations!! xxx

[Latetotheparty38]

That’s great to hear! What was the rest of your protocol? I’m trying Saizen human growth hormone this month after 5 failed full rounds and doing “estrogen priming”

[miracleneeded in reply to Latetotheparty38]

I was on 225 Gonal F, 150 Pergoveris, 12 Saizen and then the normal Orgalutran from day 8.I also did the priming before hand and on transfer day he gave me one dose of Decapeptyl to aid implantation.

Good luck! I’d love it if you updated me. This could be the one!! 💜

[Linzeeee]

Thanks very much for sharing !! And congratulations! I was just researching about growth hormone and whether I should take it! Also May I ask what protocol you were put on in this last round?

[miracleneeded in reply to Linzeeee]

Thank you. See my reply to Laterotheparty38 above. 😃

[Core]

Congratulations and thanks for sharing, after transferring 10 embryos and still nothing I think it was what I needed to hear xx

[miracleneeded in reply to Core]

I know exactly how you’re feeling. If you ever need a chat just DM me. X

[Core in reply to miracleneeded]

Thanks lovely xx