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Dr. Sher I am 6 weeks pregnant from Ivf with fresh transfer. My dr says it’s time to stop the estradiol. Do u agree or think it’s to soon. ?
My dr says only FET patients need to continue.
I agree with your RE.
Geoff Sher
Hi Dr. Sher
I might do a fourth egg retrieval. I am wondering if IVF increases my risk of getting cancer since I get very high dosages every time (500 Follistin and 150 Menopur a day). What do you think?
I am 30 and my mum got breast cancer at 50.
Thanks for your reply
It should not increease the risk significantly in my opinion.
Geoff Sher
Hello Dr. Sher,
This morning we went for our day 5 transfer. We learned that as of this morning it was a morula, grade 2, not a blastocyst or early blast.
Have you had success in patients after transferring a morula? Could it be that it is still early in the day and there is still a chance for it to become a blastocyst?
Sure, but I would have given it a day longer in culture because if it would have reached the blastocyst stage by day 6 you would have been able to have more confidence.
Geoff Sher
Hi Dr. Sher
I’m 36 and we’ve been TTC for 18 months (including 5 IUIs). I have not been diagnosed with PCOS because I have regular cycles but my AMH is 10.4. I froze my eggs when I was 32 and they extracted 24 eggs in a single cycle. From those 24 eggs, we created 5 chromosomally normal embryos (day 5/6 blastocysts) this summer. We just had our first failed transfer of one of these embryos. How many failed transfers of high quality embryos should happen before we start looking into implantation failure factors? I’ve never had a single positive pregnancy test so my gut says something may be going on with implantation. My lining has always been 8mm In each cycle, but my periods have always been very light (2 days). I don’t want to waste embryos, but it seems like the prevailing advice is to keep trying transfers without making that many changes until you’ve had 3 failures. That seems highly inefficient to me if we can run other non-invasive tests that can narrow down the culprit. Do I need to be more patient or should we be looking into alternative explanations at this point?
So it’s not probable that with superfetation you can release an egg during the 7th-9th month!
Highly unlikely in my opinion!
Geoff Sher