To transfer or not

[Lemons1986]

Hi everyone . I went through stims in February and got 6 eggs ,5 fertilised and 4 made it to day 5. I had one transferred and 3 frozen . Sadly my fresh transfer failed and pgt testing revealed just 1 embryo was viable .

I wanted to transfer this embryo this month . I wanted to give my body a break but my two periods I’ve had since ivf have been 4 and 10 days late. I also stopped acupuncture and just got tired of all the restrictions after trying for so long qnd then failed Ivf .

Should I wait until my period is normal again?

im 38 and if this frozen one doesn’t work its back through stims . I’ve always said I’ll do that but I wanted to to that late summer as I’m panicking about my age now .

also worried as I’ve not done acupuncture or been caffeine free since March . I’m considering waiting another month or so as I’m also going away so the next time I could go for the transfer is the end of June .

Sounds silly but I’m convinced it’ll fail as I haven’t done all the things everyone says to do in preparation. I just wanted to live a little after the failure .

Part of me thinks I should spend the next 7 weeks no caffeine no alcohol and back through acupuncture and make sure I’ve done my best .

[Chowlady14]

hi Lemons this is very similar to my situation, I’m 37 and had 7 cancelled transfers and 2 failed in the last 12 months. We’ve just done two cycles of back to back egg collection in hope of harvesting some embryos as I’m so concerned about my age and have seen the rapid decrease since we originally started IVF 5 years ago (9 embryos from that round, 1 failed transfer, double transfer resulting in son, then pgs tested and have 2 embryos left frozen) we did another cycle which resulted in 4 embryos and 0 births last year and a cycle earlier this year with 3 embryos and egg collection of 8 viable eggs yesterday so waiting to test them all together. I have been toying with the idea of having summer off and relaxing a little then being super healthy but I find I end up beating myself up and think about the what ifs. As a result we’re full steam ahead. Praying my lining thickens a little as it was on the thin side yesterday so we can do a fresh transfer Thursday. There is never a good time to do IVF or pregnancy and at our age I think time weighs so much heavier. xxx

[Lemons1986 in reply to Chowlady14]

My heart goes out to you . I hear of all these transfers but most of these seem to be frozen embryos from one cycle . I only got one good egg out of my last one all my other embryos were missing chromosomes. So I’m going to have another full cycle . I’ve decided to wait to have my healthy embryo transferred until June to get myself back to optimal health . Then stims again hopefully in August/ September . And hope I get more eggs that are viable . They say nothings wrong but my eggs are clearly bad. It’s just so heartbreaking. I wish you all the best with your transfer! Xx