QuestionHi,
I have been embryo tranfer for 10days , i am waiting to do a blood test next 4days. Today I have a period so i am really really sad...that means I am not pregnant !!!! Anyway, i have to go a blood text on next monday that my nurse told me.
I know that this is my first IVF cycle and this year i am 36 years old already so it is quite hard to me trying more. I only have another embryo frozen, i don't know how to get succeed for the next IVF cycle. Could you give me some advice what do I need to do before and after embryo transfer pls? Last time I didn't care about my health, I didn't rest enough and still did something as my life before, it is likely i haven't done embryo transfer.( I am not smoking,drinking and drugs person).
Thanks
phuong
AnswerHello Phuong from Australia,
First I would recommend that you have a blood pregnancy test done today. There is not need to wait 14 days after transfer. We do our test 8 days after transfer. It is possible that you are still pregnant, or that you became pregnant but have a chemical pregnancy. This is important information to know because the IVF technology ends at the embryo transfer. Implantation is a natural step and it would be good to know if it took place or not.
In terms of future IVF cycles, I would definitely advise you to keep trying. 36 years old is not too old and your chances of success are still very good. In my clinic we are getting a 61% pregnancy rate in your age group, per cycle. Recently in New York, there was a report of a woman who delivered her first child at the age of 49 after doing IVF with her own eggs. It is the oldest known pregnancy and delivery of a woman using her own eggs with IVF. But, she tried IVF for two years continuously. That's perseverance! Of course in the U.S., you have to have the financial means to do that, but it shows that if you want it bad enough, you have to keep trying!
You are asking for a medical analysis of your IVF cycle, which I cannot give in this forum due to a lack of information. Implantation depends on many factors, so we would need to look over and review the IVF cycle to see where things might have not worked. Sometimes, implantation failure is just being unlucky and not anything that you or your doctors have done. Out of 11 patients in my January IVF cycle, only four did not get pregnant. In each of those patients the cycle went very well with very good embryos to transfer. 3 of those patients were under age 35, so their chances were very high. For some unknown reason, the implantation did not occur. I cannot explain it (that technology does not exist) and so I can only attribute it to luck.
Keep trying and Good luck,
Edward J. Ramirez, M.D., FACOG
Executive Medical Director
The Fertility and Gynecology Center
Monterey Bay IVF Program
www.montereybayivf.com
Monterey, California, U.S.A.
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