Hey sorry if this has already been done but i am in need of inspiration after failed ICSi and trying to console myself with people who also had a first time failure but then got lucky 2nd, 3rd or 4th time with either fresh cycle or FET. Would love to hear your stories in a nutshell and it might cheer me up thinking there is always hope x

I would love to see some results on this as well, as my first ICSI failed and I'm currently going for round #2.

Hi ladies, sorry to hear that things havent/didnt work out for you as wanted.

Things will happen for you - fingers crossed & baby dust.

We had 3 BFN IUI's then opted for ICSI as we didnt want to wait any longer.

Fortunatley for us our first ICSI was successful and we now have a very healthy and happy 13month old daughter. It was a blessing and I count my lucky stars everyday.

Would be good if we could have some info about embryo quality, any problems people had, how they felt during 2ww wait etc?

Come on girls there must be more of you out there with some stories of encouragement, we would love to hear them

By the way, thanks jam on toast!! Glad you got your well deserved BFP after a few tries!! x

Maybe i should post a link to this post on the pregnancy boards or something? what do you reakon?

My problem was irregular cycles. When I do ovulate, it would be an immature egg. I don't produce enough hormones. I tried Clomid for 3 cycles. I did FSH injections for 3 cycles. All were BFN. We were lucky to have our BFP on our first IVF/ICSI cycle. We retrieved 15 eggs, 10 fertized. Out of the 10, 5 were growing normally as of day 5. I had 3 grade A embryos and 2 grade B. We transfered 2 grade A embryos.

Thanks hunny, any more inspiration and encouragement out there? x

Hey Akcher would you mind me being nosy and asking how come you had to have ICSI? Was there male factor involved to or was it strictly female reasons? X Congrats by the way X

Hi Chocci and girls,

I am 27, DH is 33 I have severe and aggressive endometriosis and have had 2 surgieries in a year to my reproductive organs and then I was on down regulation drugs for 4 months before i could attempt my 1st IVF. I am one of the Maybe Baby girls and i was on 450iui of menapur and suprefact. I was on 5 days at 1st at 300iui menapur drugs but by day 6 scan i only had 5 follicles. I was almost classified as a poor responder and then i was given the max dosage to stimulate my ovaries. AT EC I was told there were 10 follicles, and only 5 eggs.

The next day it embyologist called and confirmed we only had 1 egg!!!!!!!!
At ET, FS confirmed the other 4 eggs were fragmented and immature and i was LABELLED WITH BAD EGGS at 27!!!! Those 4 eggs were tossed in the bin and fertilisation was not attempted. Its tough hun, very tough. I dont know how i got through it. But our only egg that was fertilised through ICSI was grade 1 and 8 cells on day 3. A perfect egg. The doc almost had given up on us and we were talking about our next protocol. And here i am just over 5 weeks pregnant.

I call it a miracle. My consultant has confirmed the disease of endometriosis is the worst possible fertility issue you can have besides a histerectomy. Endo affects egg quality, it sends toxins to your womb kills a chance of a baby, it glues ovaries to your bowels and affects the ovaried functioning, it causes failure with implantation and high chance of misscarriage. I have had this disease for just over a year!!!! I do feel very lucky and feel we have been blessed and this road we have to go through is so tough and my heart goes out for us girls who have to go through this many times. I did not want to offend but wanted to send an encouragement and answer your questions.

I hope the road gets easier for you and your DH.

What i did in the 2WW? I was in allot of pain and was bloated, as the stim drugs causes endo to grow. I was at home most of the time and slept through out the day. The 2nd week my mum and brother have been here from sydney and we have been travelling london together. It helped to take my mind off things but i lost it. Its natural. I have a journal in this section and feel free to go through it. I also subscribed to fertility friends and its a site of hundreds of ladies going through IVF.

I hope i have helped some way and pray our survivor stays with us.

Thank you! My husband was going on a business trip so he had to freeze some sperm. His morphology is little low so the doctor suggested we do ICSI to get more viable empryos.