Ask Our Doctors – Archive
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Hi Dr. Sher. I’m 38 with DOR. I had 4 eggs retrieved after a low-dose IVF cycle. Out of the 4, 3 were mature and all 3 fertilized. Today is day 2 and they seem to be doing well. My clinic is doing a freeze all (preferably on day 5 if things progress well). Assuming they survive until day 3, should I freeze some on day 3 to be on the safe side? I worry about no embryos making it to day 5. What percentage of day 2-3 usually make it to day 5? Thanks!
Hi Dr.
I am 42 with two healthy children conceived first try at age 32, 38. My cycle is usually 28 days (never late but occasionally a couple days early) with 6/7 day bleed. I have a 16 day LP. I normally produce a lot of Ewcm starting around day 8/9.
My FSH 6 months ago was 8. I conceived this summer, on first try. Ended in CP at 4 3. I bled for 3 or 4 days (heavily, with clots). My period took 6 weeks to return! It felt as if I had a cyst on my ovary – I was producing lots of CM but OPK was – and no temp shirt. A few days after sharp pain around ovary that bucked me over, my OPK finally went positive and a day after the positive OPK, my temp shifted to 36.7 (sustained for 3 days). My period showed up 16 days later, as I expected. That period, I had my bloodwork done day 3 as Dr recommended fertility clinic due to my age and the miscarriage. My FSH was a whopping 29 and my E2 was low (40 pmol/L). No CM, dry vagina. Still too early to expect OPK but I am tracking daily.
Is it possible to suddenly hit menopause after a CP? Should I start DHEA? Please help. I cannot get answers from my Dr.
Oh, I have been taking ubiquinol 200mg per day for 6 months and folate 1000 mcg a day.
Hi Dr. Sher
I had my 4the for FET 2 weeks ago and put in one pgs tested 6day 5bb embryo. I am 38 with no issues and my husband is 41 with low motility, morphology and high Dna fragmentation. My beta at 10dp6dt was only 53 my second beta was also 53. I am going for my third beta tomorrow but have no hope at this point. Can this turn out to be a viaypregnancy after such low and not increasing numbers?
Also can high DNA fragmentation cause chemical pregnancies? I have had a 8w MM, a chemical pregnancy and a negative test in prior pgs tested embryos.
Thank you!
Sadly, this does not look promising. AND although possible, I doubt that your husband’s sperm DNA fragmentation is the cause.
Geoff Sher
Hello Dr. Sher,
I wonder if you can help me out because I’m not knowledgeable about HCG. I did a 5 day embryo frozen embryo transfer (I transferred two embryos), and 14 days later I did an hcg rest and the number was 1689. Is this considered high for that time frame? I’m asking because I’m concerned about having twins. Please tell me your thoughts. Thank you in advance.
Michelle
Hi Dr. Sher,
I have a 2.5 yr old completely healthy daughter, no complications in her pregnancy labor or delivery, and took about 4 months of trying to conceive her. We have been trying since last August/September and while we’ve gotten pregnant multiple times nothing has worked out. I had a “chemical pregnancy” last December and then a missed miscarriage that ended at 10 wks in April (the baby stopped growing at 6wks). At that time I got blood work done at about 5wks and my progesterone hcg were perfect, thyroid numbers as well. I’ve now had 2 more “chemical pregnancies” since then. I have yet to get any testing as most docs brush off the chemicals and see the mmc as a good sign we are able to get pregnant. My question is what testing should I be asking for? Since reading your article on autoimmune implantation dysfunction and autoimmune implantation dysfunction I’m very afraid one of those is happening. I just find it hard to believe ALL of our eggs and sperm have gone bad but maybe they have?
I should also note I am 31 today and my husband is 35. And one of those should say alloimmune. Thank you for your time!