Low AMH / One egg - success story (sensitive)

[BlahBlah55]

I just wanted to share my news as I know I spent many many hours scrolling through these forums looking for stories to give me hope.

After 15 months of trying (and failing) to conceive we found out I had very low AMH which was rapidly declining (went from 4.8 to 1.7 in about 7 months) and my partner was found to have 0% morphology and poor motility. We were told that there wasn’t much hope trying IVF as my ovarian reserve was too bad.

But we wanted to try everything, so went ahead! 1st round I responded poorly and only got 3 eggs of which only one successfully fertilised and made it to a day 5 blast, but that failed. We went straight to a second round trying a totally different protocol and different drugs. This time I responded even worse! Only got 1 egg, we were gutted and at that point we assumed it was all over for us. Fast forward to today and I’ve had my 12 week scan and NIPT results through and we have a healthy baby girl growing. Still got a long way to go, but I can’t believe we made it to this stage given how awful our prospects were. The cliche is true - it only takes one!!

I hope this story gives hope to others, I know I’ve found so much strength from reading other people stories in these support forums.

[Hopewhite]

Huge congratulations! Thank you for spreading the hope ! I hope you’re well and hopefully more relaxed , and enjoying your pregnancy xx

[Here4ivfinfo]

congratulations!!! Thank you for sharing this. I’m about to have my third transfer so I will keep your story in my mind whenever I feel pessimistic 😊. Hope you have a smooth pregnancy and healthy baby in your arms in the near future xxxxxx

[BlahBlah55 in reply to Here4ivfinfo]

Good luck, hopefully you’ll be third time lucky 🤞

[Here4ivfinfo in reply to BlahBlah55]

I hope so too! We’re throwing in 2 embryos this time. So far I’m responding well to treatment and my lining is thickening at a quicker rate on this protocol. I’m hoping it’s 9mm on Monday 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[BlahBlah55 in reply to Here4ivfinfo]

Sounds promising. Is Monday transfer day?

[Here4ivfinfo in reply to BlahBlah55]

No Monday is just another scan to check if I’m ready to go on progesterone. I think you have maybe 5 days of this and then transfer so I think my transfer will be next weekend if all goes to plan.

[Christianbaby]

Wow, what an incredible journey you've been on! Your perseverance is truly inspiring. It's amazing to hear that despite the odds, you have a healthy baby girl on the way. Your story gives so much hope to others going through similar struggles. Wishing you all the best for the rest of your pregnancy. xx

[Tamaa]

Thank you for spreading hope!💕 Wish you a beautiful motherhood

[Twiglet2]

aww that’s so lovely 🥰 xx

[Jane8412]

congratulations! Such a wonderful story. Wishing you the best for the rest of your pregnancy 🩷

Just wanted to share for anyone else reading this with low AMH needing hope. I also have low AMH. First round of IVF failed. Went straight into a second round and got 2 eggs. Only 1 fertilised. Had a day 3 transfer which resulted in my son. I have since had a daughter at 38 after getting pregnant naturally (surprise). I felt IVF was hopeless after not responding well but you don’t know until you try.

[Alexie07]

thank you for sharing. Gives me hope

[Millbanks]

Ahhh congratulations! Amazing to beat the odds like that - fingers crossed for a smooth pregnancy xx

[Nakijo]

Congrats. Your story is inspiring. May I ask how old you are and if you took any supplements?

[BlahBlah55 in reply to Nakijo]

I turned 41 a couple days before my egg collection.

Supplements I took were CQ10, Vit D, Omega oil, and Prenatal multivitamin.

Partner took Impryl, CQ10 and Vit C.

We made small life style changes such as reducing alcohol and caffeine, but nothing major.

[MontsJ]

Huge congrats to you!! I’m over 40 with very low ovarian reserve too. Would you mind sharing more about your protocols, which ones worked and which didn’t. Did your successful embryo make it to blast and did you do PGT-A?

[BlahBlah55 in reply to MontsJ]

Hi there, I did short protocol first time using max dose of Reckoville and 5mg Letrozole for stims and then adding Ganirelex (not sure of spellings). The second round I did long protocol - started with nafarelin as buserelin was out of stock but switched when it came back in. Then I was on max dose of Menopur for stims.

Hard to say which was better as one got me higher number of eggs, but the other got me the one good quality! I’m sure it is also a bit random as the drugs and protocol you’re given can only work with what our body has available each month!

I didn’t do PGTA testing, I know there’s different opinions about it and my clinic weren’t that keen. With such low numbers I didn’t feel it was worth it. But if I was getting 6+ embryos I would prob do the extra testing as there’s more to work with.

How are you getting on?

[SKC111]

Congratulations to you! I love reading positive stories on here of dreams coming true! Wishing you a happy & healthy pregnancy!!!! I have my first EC tomorrow, my partner has low morphology at 1%, I’m 40, it’s even better to hear positive stories of people in our age group! All the best x x x

[BlahBlah55 in reply to SKC111]

Thankyou Hope your egg collection went well! How’s it all going so far?