Thursday, March 7, 2013

Long time no see... Update on us!


It has been far too long since I have posted.  I haven't had many positive thing to post write about so I decided to take a break. 
DH and I have decided explore a new road in order to, which will hopefully help us bring home a Whistler/Mindy baby.  On Tuesday 3/5 we had a consult with ccrm.  Even though it was not all rainbows and butterflies it was full of a lot of useful information.   For those who have read about the consult else where I apologize.
He began by giving us 80% likelihood of getting knocked up with donor egg (seems like a really high, possibly an inaccurate or inflated number).  He feels that I should have more testing completed before moving on with IVF using my eggs to find out why I have DOR.  He is in disbelief that I haven't been tested for fragile x and highly recommends I have that done.  He also recommends karyotyping, and sperm frag test.
He went on to say that it was a good sign I had an embryo grow to blast, but feels that I should have ccs testing on any embryos in the future. He recommends an "improved protocol” most likely testosterone priming for one or two cycles.  Bank all the embryo's and when I have a good number of embryos (I have no idea what that number would be) move forward with CCS testing with our embryos. He believes that if are Embryos are normal we have a 60% chance of getting pregnant with less than a 5% chance of MC. 
DH and I have talked.  I am still not sure if we should do another IVF with my OE's.  However, we would like to go there for the ODWU and see what ccrm finds.  If I am not a carrier of fragile x I think we may move forward with IVF.  If I am a carrier of fragile x we will move onto DE--Locally. 

What I'm scared of is moving forward with IVF using my OE's, not having success. Then waiting another 5 years to cycle with a DE, since we are oop it will take us that long to pay off the horrific debt. According to all the REs I've ever seen there is no limitation on age using a DE, so I guess I have that going for me. 

As we all know, nothing is certain, DE is not successful for everyone.  I would hate to use all my financial resources on something that will not work, such as IVF with my OE, but I want to make sure that I am ready to move forward with DE.  My ultimate goal is not to regret anything! 

I wish I had a crystal ball!!!