Ask Our Doctors – Archive
Our Medical Directors are outstanding physicians that you will find to be very personable and compassionate, who take care to ensure that you have the most cutting-edge fertility treatments at your disposal. This is your outlet to ask your questions to the doctors.
I had an hcg blood draw at 11 dpo that came at 13. Another 3 days later at 54 (14 dpo) and then another 2 days later at 144 (16). I am going in at 5 week 5 days for a US for location as mu dr isnworried about ectopic becuase if the low initial level. Should I be concerned?
The rise is appropriate for a normal pregnancy!
Good luck!
Geoff Sher
Hi Dr Sher,
I have a 3yr old daughter from IVF. Since then I have had 5 miscarriages. I’ve been on immune protocols of steroids, clexane and for the last miscarriage I had one Intralipid infusion on egg collection day but none after that. My specialist has tested me for everything except Dq alpha gene as she doesn’t believe in it (most Drs in Australia won’t test for it).
I have endometriosis, all other tests including autoimmune tests are normal. I’ve been started on plaquenil anyway.
My question is, do you recommend treating recurrent miscarriage with plaquenil?
Secondly do you recommend having endometriosis removed prior to FET to reduce the immunological effects of it?
Any advice would be much appreciated as I’m really concerned I’m going to have another miscarriage.
Thanks so much for all the online advice you provide!
Kind Regards,
Katherine
Hi Doc,
hCG on Sept 21 – 1152 (PDG 2.8)
hCG on Sept 24 – 1010 (PDG 2.1)
LMP – Aug 22. My GYN is preparing me for a miscarriage. I had a previous Chemical pregnancy before and started bleeding in the 5th week. How should I go forward from here?
Dadly, this does not look very promising.
Have an US done for confirmation.
Sorry!
Geoff Sher
Hi had my first ivf tracking appointment today & both ovaries looked good & are responding to treatment. When they checked my uterus they found a polyp & said it’s possible after egg retrieval that they will need to freeze my eggs & do further investigation. I’m worrying about this, we had all initial fertility checks done a year back & this wasn’t flagged, could the ivf drugs be the cause of the polyp? Do you think it’s likely my transfer will be cancelled. I’m worrying I am completely infertile & useless. Thanks for your help. Jade.
It is likely and advisable trhat the ETbe canceled if you have a polyp. It is not likely that it was caused by fertility drugs.
Good luck!
Geoff Sher
Thank you Dr. Sher for this blog with a goldmine of information provided to us. I’ve been reading for over a year and now I have a question of my own. Can sperm be too young for fertilizing eggs? We did an IVF cycle and I found out later my husband did not abstain for more than 12 hours. There was some fertilization issues despite using ICSI, that I have never had before. I’ve done IVF with two different partners and I always get 83% to 100% fertilization across 4 different clinics, except for this time. A lot of clinics like to blame all problems in ivf on the couple but I know from lots of experience and lots of time in the infertility world that the labs can make a huge difference too. The doctor does his part with protocol and getting the eggs out. The rest is up to genetics and the lab in my opinion. Could very young sperm cause problems with fertilization such as not providing a pronuclei to contribute to life?
I frankly do not buy this as being a factor at all. The frequency of ejaculation will not affect sperm quality. It might reduce the concentration, but that’s about it!
Good luck!
Geoff Sher
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