What are your favorite and unique to Albany only places to eat a person should go to if only here for few days?
Vegetarian friendly and affordable would be great.
Here are few I tried and my assessment so you get an idea.
Loved the most:
Shwe Burmese
Liked:
Oaxaquena Triqui
Suwun Thai
Didn’t Like:
The Hollow Bar
The skinny Pancake
I am trying to decide to try freezing Day 3 embryos vs day 5 and beyond when they become blastocyst. I understand you cannot for PGT-A on Day 3.
I had one embryon that survived till Day 7 in the past and then was discarded as it never blasted. I have heard that ovarian environment is better than lab to reach a blast and specially in older patients, freezing and transferring Day 3 might have better outcomes.
Have you frozen Day 3? If you thawed did it survive thaw? Did you then let it blast in lab or transferred right away? Did it result in successful pregnancy?
My first embryo came back polyploid. Even though I knew it could happen, I am just sad. And knowing the gender made it just more real.
Does it get ever easier to take this kind of news? Does your mind and heart become more clinical as you do more rounds?
I am seeing studies about anueploid embryos producing healthy babies. Has anyone had success with polyploid?
I was in a deep relationship with someone who was into polyfidelity in past and also wounded that nobody ever loved him truly.
Despite being monogamous, I truly fell in love with him, gave him true love and he truly loved me too and was just with me (at least thats what he said, but honestly I was always looking around corners).
After being together for several years, he kept bringing up that he wants to be with me and I would be primary, and he wants other hookups only as he really likes that novelty and the rush of meeting new people. I totally understand that feeling and don’t judge it all, but it’s just not the kind of relationship I wanted.
He tells me he broke up with me for other reasons, but I think this was a big one as I didn’t want this.
More than the breakup, what is hurting is the feeling of him leaving true love for his sexual only encounters lifestyle and in my hurt and vulnerable state, I am taking this very personally. If he was in love with other people I would be ok with that honestly, but he wasn’t and only wanted others hookups.
I am looking for perspective from people who are poly that might help bring me some peace please. How do you feel about this? Does the rush of being with people overrides true love with one person? Not that one is better than other but just trying to honestly understand more.
Thank you.
I just want to give kudos to all of you who have been on this journey for a long time. My journey to get to be able to even do IVF has been a very long one. But I am only my second stim cycle and have already lost both patience and energy. I am literally dragging myself to just clinically do injections. I think the impact on mood is making this worse than it needs to be.
I admire you all so much who have been at it, specially if you are doing it solo. This is such a hard journey in so many ways and the worst part is there are no guarantees of success. I so wish I had started this sooner, not being older I just feel like I can’t even take a month’s break and am so paranoid.
Hugs and love to anyone who needs, I know I need all of that so much to keep going so sending it to anyone who does.
After ER and before you get your period, has anyone experienced extreme PMS? Like a very heightened version of it? Extreme restlessness and mood fluctuations. I am fine physically.
I called my nurse and she said maybe read a book or something and I am not a psychologist so I can’t help you, hahahhaha such a weird comment and not helpful.
I was reading online that post ER hormone crash can cause this chemical panic. Was it really bad for you and how did you get through and not punch holes in walls???
I have a new level of respect for everyone here, specially people who have been doing this for a long time. We all know IVF attrition risk at each stage, but going through it the first time, it has hit me harder than expected and I am just here for support. I know there are many threads on this, but I wanted to add mine too.
First retrieval: 5 AFC, 3 retrieved, 2 mature and fertilized, 1 Day 6 blast and frozen.
I feel so lucky and grateful honestly to have at least one in the bank (pending PGTA), but also just mourning the loss of others.
Its a long journey with many rounds and want to prepare myself for them.
Thank you for your thoughts and support.
For embryos that are past Day 5 but have not made it to blastocyst yet (lab will watch for 2 more days), has anyone saved them still?
If they do not reach blastocyst till Day 7, has anyone still frozen them for future transfer? I was watching a video from CHR about having healthy babies even from embryos that tested negative in PGT-A and was wondering if there is any success in also trying embryos that don’t make it to blastocyst. Thanks.
I am looking for clinic names, any location, that do confirmed Rescue IVM.
Note some labs lets just eggs mature naturally overnight, this is not what I am looking for. I want the eggs to be in cultured media and assisted IVM technology please.
I currently use CNY and I am finding their lab process to be a big limiting factor, they do not have IVM, they won’t try to fertilize anything below M2, and won‘t consult me before discarding anything. These are other things I am looking for as well in a lab if you happen to know.
It’s really hard to do so much effort and then have the lab protocol and tech as limiting factor so please help me find a better match.
On stim day 6 (Wednesday) and had my monitoring today and they are recommending I trigger tomorrow (Thursday) or I can wait and trigger on Saturday. Due to 40 plus they do think there might be a risk of early ovulation but my P4 and LH don’t seem that high.
I know there is not a good 1:1 correlation in mapping growth as we don’t know which one is what, LOL, but based on rate of growth for each (assuming sorting by size), I have projected the size at trigger.
I am so torn, this is my first cycle. One thought I have is do another round of monitoring Thursday morning but not sure if within a day I will get meaningful new data to make a decision. Any advice for what worked for you?
AMH: 0.96
Protocol: Estrogen, Testosterone, Progesterone Priming.
Stim: Clomid, Provera, Follistim, Menopur, Omnitrope
| Follicles | Fri Baseline | Wed Actual | Thu Projection | Sat Projection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right | 4.7 mm | 11 mm | 12.26 mm | 14.78 mm |
| Left | 10.1 mm | 18 mm | 19.58 mm | 22.74 mm |
| 5.1 mm | 14 mm | 15.78 mm | 19.34 mm | |
| 4.8 mm | 8 mm | 8.64 mm | 9.92 mm | |
| 3.6 mm | 7.5 mm | 8.28 mm | 9.84 mm | |
| Bloodwork | Fri Baseline | Wed Result | ||
| E2 | 127.8 | 776.2 | ||
| P4 | 0.66 | 1.13 | ||
| LH | 5.7 | 9.9 | ||
| FSH | 16.1 |
I have done several initial consults and did not like anyone, proceeding with first cycle at CNY and they are not good either.
Has anyone had a good experience with a clinic and what was the cost and outcome?
What I am looking for most is a doctor who creates highly individualized protocol to your needs and actually cares for the outcome and has experience with DOR and AMA.
Hi, I am currently mid stim with CNY and trying to influence my choices below, currently the clinic is not supportive so trying to get some info to help understand.
Save all follicles: I want every follicle retrieved (safely) regardless of the size, even if it doesn’t mature it gives me data. They don’t want to aspirate anything below 17mm (my AFC is only 5).
Discarding: I want nothing discarded without my permission. They are saying lab decides what gets discarded.
Detailed Reporting: I want very detailed report of egg and embryo maturation, and PGT-A results at chromosome level. I want access to all my data so i can study trends and see how I want to tweak my future cycles. I am being told I will be getting very basic data.
Blastocyte: I want every embryo to be given chance to reach blastocyte, I am hearing that labs decides this.
As an embryologist, if you can shed any light on this I would deeply appreciate. I am trying to advocate for best data-driven outcomes for me.
Hi, I am currently doing my first cycle (freeze all) at CNY Fertility and am not sure if the protocol is right for me. When I had a consult with another clininc, they wanted to go full on with a high dose antagonist protocol. CNY has put me on what appears to be PPOS lower dose. It might be ok but just not sure as they were unable to explain any rationale to me and finalized this before seeing any baseline data and refuse to re-evaluate. I know there are different stim philosophies and they are all ok but as the clinic just cannot explain the reasoning to me, asking here.
Specially I am concerned that my FSH was elevated at baseline showing that my ovaries already need more signaling so maybe the FSH doses should be higher. Also the Omnitrope 6 units feels very low compared to 33 units that another clinic wanted to give. Also the cohort sizes are very varied, the first monitoring is 5 days after baseline which might be too late to help the lagging ones.
AFC - 5 (ranging from 3m to 10mm)
Age - 44
AMH - 0.96
FSH - 16
o Clomid 50 mg,2 tablets daily x 5 days
o Follistim 225 IU, Inject 225 IU SQ x 1 daily
o Menopur 75 IU, Inject 75 IU (1 vial) SQ x 1 daily
o Provera (medroxyprogesterone) 10 mg, 1 tablets x 1 daily
o Omnitrope 5.8 mg, Inject 0.33 mg (6 units) SQ x 1 daily
Hi, I am currently doing my first cycle (freeze all) at CNY Fertility and am not sure if the protocol is right for me. When I had a consult with another clininc, they wanted to go full on with a high dose antagonist protocol. CNY has put me on what appears to be PPOS lower dose. It might be ok but just not sure as they were unable to explain any rationale to me and finalized this before seeing any baseline data and refuse to re-evaluate. I know there are different stim philosophies and they are all ok but as the clinic just cannot explain the reasoning to me, asking here.
Specially I am concerned that my FSH was elevated at baseline showing that my ovaries already need more signaling so maybe the FSH doses should be higher. Also the Omnitrope 6 units feels very low compared to 33 units that another clinic wanted to give. Also the cohort sizes are very varied, the first monitoring is 5 days after baseline which might be too late to help the lagging ones.
AFC - 5 (ranging from 3m to 10mm)
Age - 44
AMH - 0.96
FSH - 16
o Clomid 50 mg,2 tablets daily x 5 days
o Follistim 225 IU, Inject 225 IU SQ x 1 daily
o Menopur 75 IU, Inject 75 IU (1 vial) SQ x 1 daily
o Provera (medroxyprogesterone) 10 mg, 1 tablets x 1 daily
o Omnitrope 5.8 mg, Inject 0.33 mg (6 units) SQ x 1 daily
Hi, I am currently doing my first cycle (freeze all) at CNY Fertility and am not sure if the protocol is right for me. When I had a consult with another clininc, they wanted to go full on with a high dose antagonist protocol. CNY has put me on what appears to be PPOS lower dose. It might be ok but just not sure as they were unable to explain any rationale to me and finalized this before seeing any baseline data and refuse to re-evaluate. I know there are different stim philosophies and they are all ok but as the clinic just cannot explain the reasoning to me, asking here.
Specially I am concerned that my FSH was elevated at baseline showing that my ovaries already need more signaling so maybe the FSH doses should be higher. Also the Omnitrope 6 units feels very low compared to 33 units that another clinic wanted to give. Also the cohort sizes are very varied, the first monitoring is 5 days after baseline which might be too late to help the lagging ones.
AFC - 5 (ranging from 3m to 10mm)
Age - 44
AMH - 0.96
FSH - 16
o Clomid 50 mg,2 tablets daily x 5 days
o Follistim 225 IU, Inject 225 IU SQ x 1 daily
o Menopur 75 IU, Inject 75 IU (1 vial) SQ x 1 daily
o Provera (medroxyprogesterone) 10 mg, 1 tablets x 1 daily
o Omnitrope 5.8 mg, Inject 0.33 mg (6 units) SQ x 1 daily
I am about to have my first egg retrieval and the nurse told me any follicle below 17mm is not gong to be aspirated as chances of survival are just low. My AFC is only 5 and I want every follicle to be retrieved and given a chance in the lab, if it doesn‘t survive that is fine but why not give it a chance. This is infuriating me and I just do not understand this rationale for such a low AFC count. I am continuing to pursuade them to retrieve it all but wanted to see what have others experienced in such cases. Did you get them all retrieved or just above a certain size? How did you advocate if you were in this situation? FYI, this is at CNY Fertility. Thank You.