failed donor egg cycle

[redhead68]

2010 - 2 IVF's with own eggs both implanted and had chemical miscarriage. Last month proceeded to DE cycle and failed completely. I respond very well to meds, all hormone levels are normal through process. I am 43, husband 48 we are both in good health. Are there many failed DE cycles???

[Fluffy1234]

I am so sorry to hear about your failures. I am in the same boat.. My history had 1 IVF chemical pregnancy, 2 IVF neg results, 1 pregnancy by nature m/c on week 9th, 1failed IUI, next tried donor very expensive 30k, ended up with 9 embryos had first transfer August 2013, 2 transferred got pregnant :) but m/ c week 6. Second try with FET on March 25 went for HCG test yesterday NEG Test :( Have three frozen embryo left, but I can't anymore!!!

[lanna40]

Hi Tanja,
We have also done SO MANY IUIs, IVFs that I have lost the count now. and then we did one donor egg cycle and after giving my RE $6000 and all the meds expenses he just said that all the eggs retrieved form donor were not viable and all the money went to drain.
then we did cycle with another donor but same RE and were able to have frsh cycle with 2 embies and had 6 frozen. Fresh cycle didn't work, did another cycle with 2 FET no success, another cycle with new RE, no success. and now we have one 1 FE left.
This new RE is our 3rd RE and no none of these REs have any clue as why we don't get pregnant.
We are going to do our last FET in May2014. We are also going to try acupuncture this time. and after this ....we may have to face the same reality....childfree life (which really *****...excuse my language) but I am frustrated and desperate especially because Drs just keep taking the money and just advise to keep trying...but never able to say WHY it's not happening

[Tanja1979]

I am in a similar boat as you, we had 2 cycles of our own eggs and were advised to move on to donor eggs. We have just completed our second failed donor egg cycle. We still have 2 frozen embryo's. Our doctor has also not been able to tell us why these cycles have failed. I am devastated by the outcome of our last 2 cycles and am terrified that we will never get pregnant using assisted reproductive procedures. I now fear that if the frozen embryos do not work we will have to face the reality of living a childfree life. I am utterly miserable :(

[KorrieK]

I've had 4 failed DE cycles, with no known cause. I've had all kinds of testing done, so has my husband. Sometimes it just does not work. I am sorry it did not work for you (I know you posted this a year ago and I'm chiming in late but I wanted to say this anyway in case you come back to read it). I've had immunology testing done, the whole bloodwork panel, two hysteroscopies, and HSG, my husband had sperm fragmentation testing done. Nothing came back suspicious, and for now all I can do is focus on finding a better clinic and better donor. I hope somethign eventually works out for both of us.

[KorrieK]

Thanks so much for that information, it will be very helpful to me for my next cycle.

[JamarieS]

It's hard to hear the words no especially when you are trying to be a mother but know that you are not alone.  I'm 43 (44 in march) we started last year and had a cancelled cycle with own eggs-no response at all to meds.  We decide to move on with a donor and 19 fertilized, 18 made it to day 5. 2 transferred the rest frozen but results ended in neg test.  We are now going for our 3rd cycle with 2 frozen sched next week.  We'll see how this goes.  It was very hard physically and emotionally the first 2 times but now I know it's only hard because I know we are trying.  We are trying to control something that nature will always have control of.  If it doesn't happen this time we accept the fact that we were meant to take care of children already here.