6 donor embryo failures
I had a baby a couple of years or so ago, first try, no drama. We tried assisted fertility right away due to me being early 40s and the advice of the fertility clinic. We tried for two years and nothing so we took the advice to move to donor eggs. We are on our 3rd donor. I’ve had 6 transfers which includes 1 blighted ovum, 1 miscarriage at 4+6wks and four failure. One of the failures is with a new donor and our first grade A we’ve ever got from donors. We paid for a larger cohort of eggs to get better than a grade B this time. It still failed. We’ve spent about £25k plus travel / accommodation etc overseas almost every month. I’m not working as a result of being away all the time.
I’ve just had an endometrium biopsy to see if I’ve picked up endometriosis bacterial due to miscarriage. I’ve also just paid for immunology blood tests. But what does it end? I obviously want answers - do I need more tests? Is it bad luck? The accumulative success rate is supportive be 98% after 4 transfers. I can’t believe I’m still in this fertility hole. Do I give up? Do I ask for something new? Can anyone help.., please? 🙏🏽
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It took me 6 transfers which included 3 miscarriages to finally get my baby. Are your embryos tested? As well as testing for endometriosis, you can also test the general microbiome with the Alice/Emma test. Have you had a recurrent miscarriage blood test? This looks at various things such as blood clotting issues. If you go down the immune route, I would recommend testing your embryos as the treatments are pretty expensive and it would be pointless spending the money if your embryo is aneuploid. I’m so sorry it’s proving a tricky journey for you but there are definitely things that can be done/treated if needed
Also are you doing medicated transfers? Maybe try a natural/modified natural transfer
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