Verified stats on success rates at each clinic

[Sja1981]

What are you accepting as the most reliable sources?

I met with the LWC Brighton on Saturday and want to know their success for women my age (43) or plus 40 but they've got nothing, apparently due to some issue with the HFEA website. Their stats only run to 2019 and the website seems all buggy.

So what other sources might I examine, and how much weight do you give to the stats?

When it's such a lottery anyway based on your own body, I wonder how much stats should play into who you choose?

They also don't factor in stuff like quality of patient care and being treated like a human. Stuff my previous clinic failed miserably at, which caused so much unnecessary stress and the EC triggered my PTSD. Now paying for private fertility counselling to help my balance out. Brain fog and very variable mood is almost preventing me from being able to work.

[Kitkat10]

I deliberated over stats at different clinics using the HFEA website but as you say, it’s so dependent on the individual patient so I went with location and middle of the road stats. The HFEA website stats also seem to be out of date 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sja1981 in reply to Kitkat10]

How did you know which stats to trust?Each clinic can seemingly claim whatever they want.

And yes the HFEA website is useless.

[Kitkat10 in reply to Sja1981]

I just looked at the HFEA, they seemed to mostly be around 18-25% for my age (39 - 41) but don’t take into account reasons for treatment. Did your consultant give you an estimate. Mine told me 30% then after 2 failed transfers, dropped it to 15%, then the third transfer worked, so back up to 33%. She also told me it was a ‘lottery’ which gave me no hope in the process at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sja1981 in reply to Kitkat10]

I was told my doctor had 60% live births at home for women my age, from healthy embryos, which is obviously very impressive - for 43 years old, I typically see 5%.

No I wasn't given an estimate - when I asked for a plan B, the doc was so optimistic that he requested we dont discuss this yet.

That's good in some ways they were honest about it being a lottery - yet I'm starting to read/hear about women who improved nutrition, managed stress carefully - who then had positive outcomes after initial fails and being told "you cant improve egg quality / might as well move to donor eggs".

I'm in the process of locating a fertility nutrionist to review my diet and possibly my immunity, as my body still hasnt fought off HPV which I've had for almost two years, and I wonder whether it's to do with inflammation as I used to love my sugary treats. I've cut those now and am looking into gut health.

[Vix12345 in reply to Sja1981]

Just my opinion, but this sounds like two different criteria to me and the wording doesn't make it clear. I think what that stat is actually saying is 5% success rate overall for that age group, but from those that do get pregnant in that age group, 60% go on to have a live birth. It isn't written very clearly tho. x

[Twiglet2 in reply to Vix12345]

This is what I was thinking too. My clinic display their stats on their wall and website and this is how they do it. Successful transfers and then % of those successful transfers that have live births and those 5% and 60% stats match up to the over 40s age group more xx

[Norregirl in reply to Sja1981]

Hi! Interested in the clinic you are referring to if possible.

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Take a look at recent publication from HFEA hfea.gov.uk "Fertility treatment 2022: preliminary trends and figures " for most recent update

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