is anyone able to help me read this? i’ve been trying/testing for years. just started BTT but i’m really confused on what I should be looking at or for ..read more

Hi everyone! I’m Michelle. I had labs done over a month ago, honestly maybe two for my hormones. I had not gotten a period after having my second iud removed ( a year or two early) to try to get pregnant with my husband. About a week after my labs were done I had a scheduled call to review the results, but my doctor got pulled away so the call was with a PA. I looked at the results in my patient portal and saw I had low levels of estrogen and my FSH was high. I knew things were not as they should be but I wait to speak to a professional. The PA told me my labs were good and normal. They were n ..read more

Hello everyone, My husband and I decided 2 years ago we were ready for kids. We got pregnant right away and had a chemical. We kept trying, and a year later we were referred to a fertility clinic. I have since had uterine polyps and endometriosis removed. I got a positive blood test last week and was told today hsg has dropped and resulted in another chemical. I am so devastated. It took 2 years just to conceive again and I thought removing the polyps would fix the implantation issue. There is no way I can afford ivf or iui, especially considering it is not guaranteed. I wish i knew what I wa ..read more

Been ttc for over a decade. Got medical help since 2019. Went through numerous medicated cycles (oral and stim). Did three round of IVF. First round with one mature egg but didn’t make it to day 5. Second & third rounds ended in cancellation due to lack of responding. Low AMH, on thyroid medications, and poor responder to the medications even in highest dose. Tried antagonist, lupron suppression, & minimal protocols…none that work. Anyone in the same situation? I am so drained ..read more

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum but not new to infertility. I am a 38 year old woman and I started my fertility treatments 3 years ago after about a year of TTC naturally. I got pregnant with my first IUI in 2021 but that ended in an MMC at 9 weeks. After 3 more unsuccessful IUIs, we decided to try IVF. We were hopeful but little did we know that it would take us so long. Now about 3 years later, after 3 egg retrievals, 2 embryo transfers, 1 biochemical and 1 anembryonic pregnancy, here I am with nothing to show for it. My latest embryo transfer in December was the anembryonic that I just ..read more

Hello! My name is Avery Siegel and I am the producer of Colton Underwood's new podcast, Daddyhood. As you all know the journey towards parenting is different for everyone - for some it’s easy to welcome a little one into this world but for others, it can come with surrogacy, IVF, IUI, adoption, lifestyle changes and so much more. This podcast will document Colton and his husband's journey from fertility issues to becoming dads. We would love your support as we go down this journey. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddyhood/id1731396669 ..read more

Hello ! First time IVF-er, first time forum poster :-) I'm 41 and my partner and I have unexplained infertility. We began IVF/ICSI and had 22 follicles, 12 had eggs in them, 9 of the eggs were mature, 8 successfully fertilized and it has resulted in 4 happy blastocysts (3bb) frozen in two batches of 2 on day 5. I'm going in in a few days for the FET, my lining is looking good (the other day 8.5 mm), and throughout this process they have told me my hormone levels are excellent. We don't have a lot of money, and won't be able to do this many times like some stories I read, so I'm hoping to read ..read more

My new doctor found a 3 cm fibroid between by cervix and uterus which might have lead to infertility. Has anyone gone through this?  Just looking out for similar experiences. I am very new to this and freaking out.  ..read more

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone using estrogen priming protocol had low estrogen and small follicles on a day 6 monitoring appt - and what ended up happening with your cycle? We are on our third cycle of IVF (neither of the first two produced embryos). This time, I used estrogen priming (a patch every other day + ganirelix) before starting shots with the goal of more even follicle development. Today I had 16 follicles, but they were very small (biggest was about 8 mm, they didn't measure the others) and my estrogen was 230. Has anyone been in this boat before - small follicles and low E2 ..read more

Hi all, I have a situation which seems somewhat unique, and I can't find any forum posts that are specific to this.  If anyone has had a similar story, please please provide us some input.  Please bear with me, as this post is extremely TMI. First some background: I'm 41, my husband 38.  We had 3 successful pregnancies earlier in our lives, but we lost our 5 year old last December.  It's been a hard journey since then, but we felt like our family was incomplete, so we did a tubal reversal.  To be clear: I've felt like our family was incomplete even before that, but m ..read more