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Shutterbug
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Thanks so much for your assistance.
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karystos
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Dr. I am very concerned:
I did ICSI with 17 eggs retrieved. 11 fertilized and on day 2 they tell me they will do a day 3 transfer. I was hoping for a blast stage...I don't understand with so many embies still dividing, why they wouldn't wait it out a litte. My first ivf they did it on day 4 and my first fet they implanted two blasts which resulted in a chemical pregnancy. So does this mean that my embies are bad quality? This is my last shot at ivf and I am quickly losing hope. Your opinion?
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Red
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me 36, DH 38, ttc 1.5 years
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Karystos~I see you posted to this site and this dr. is gone. Post this to Dr. Jacobs on Fertility 101 and he'll reply tomorrow morning (usually). Take care and remember to breathe  !
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God bless all of us on our journey to motherhood!
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dees
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I am concerned about potential abnormalities in ICSI children. It is not the ICSI process that worries me, but rather, the genetic make up of the sperm. It is my only option as we did IVF but the sperm did not bind to the egg. I would appreciate your comments on this.
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TheMuzys
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Dear Doctor,
I am 32 and my husband is 37 and we have just had our 1st cycle of ICSI. I responded well to the drugs and produced 12 eggs of which 9 were mature enough, 3 were said to be immature and by English law could not be injected. Of the 9 mature ones, 3 fertilised abnormally and 6 did not fertilise at all. Obviously we are both devastated. We cannot understand how this could have happened. I have blocked fallopian tubes but are otherwise fine and my husband has 98% abnormal forms (morphology). His count this time was about average and he has a 6 year old daughter from a previous relationship. I have conceived twice before at a very young age (16 years ago). We dont know what to think, we trust our clinic and what they have said but we cannot help but think that human error could have played a part in this. The clinic had a power cut before we arrived and was running from generated power. Saying that we have been told ICSI was performed on other couples the same day and was successful. We have decided that we will have another attempt but we wondered what tests could be done on my husbands sperm? The consultant said that it could the eggs or it could be the sperm. Is there some sort of DNA test he could have before we set ourselves up for more heartache? They also mentioned something about the sperm breaking down??
Is this what you refer to as decondensaton?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Steve and Melanie
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HeatherT
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I am trying to get a handle on our likelihood of success with IVF/ICSI and have found some very helpful information here. I am 36 and do not have a factor, except that one year ago I had a fibroid removed in preparation for IVF. (It was my understanding that the fibroid would not necessarily have effected my fertility but since my husband has severe ogliozoospermia and we were going to have to go the IVF/ICSI route, removing the fibroid was indicated to make sure my uterus is as friendly as possible.) My husband had TESA done a week and a half ago and just had a follow up with his urologist who said that the two vials they were able to freeze from the procedure were adequate for moving forward with IVF/ICSI. A couple questions:
1. Everything I read gives a much higher rate for IVF with fresh donor egg. Why is this? If I don't have a factor would this not apply and does it in fact give us a bit better chance on my end? I do understand that IVF/ICSI has only about a 20%-30% chance of producing a live birth overall, but is this at all improved by not having a female factor?
2. My husband tried twice to produce sperm for freezing before the TESA, but had only a couple of poor quality sperm the first time and none detectable the second - nothing that could be stored, anyway. For the past two and half months, leading up to the TESA he was seeing a acupuncturist recommended by our clinic and taking many vitamins and herbs prescribed by the acupuncturist. Of course, we have no way of knowing if this helped, but on the chance that it did, would you recommend he try to produce and store another sample before my procedure? I'm worried that the two viles won't be adequate after all as I understand that even though they are deemed adequate to proceed with the procedure that doesn't guarantee the sperm will be good the day of.
3. A related question: our Dr. said he wants my husband to try and produce sperm the day my eggs are harvested. Didn't you say that with ICSI that fresh sperm isn't any better than frozen sperm? Is this just to try and get sperm to use so that we might not have to use the viles in case we need to go another round and don't want to put my husband through another TESA?
Thank you very much for your response.
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