Yes conceived naturally...we did try iui and ivf, none of them successful.

Is it true frozen embryo transfer success rate higher than fresh embryo? > Not sure about this, last time doctor told us is grade B for embryo. No success also..

My tube is block .. so i think i cannot conceive naturally ... only IVF unless there are miracle haha.
I still scare to try FET. My fresh put in 8 cell grade 2 embryo also failed. I worried now cause i got same grade same cell embryo frozen. Scare the result out the same.

It is the same problem here as well, fresh ET failed twice with us.
For now, go get some rest as you need to clear your body of all the hormonal injections that you taken, go for some holiday and relax. Nourish your body and ensure that your menstrual cycle has return back to normal before you continue the frozen ET cycle.
Our Frozen ET cycle would take place end of this month (after more than 3 months hiatus, doing Chinese traditional medicine + treatment in the mean time), i'll update if there are any further news

Yes, good luck. Wish to hear good news from you soon.

Your 1st IVF no frozen egg that why you try two fresh IVF?
I wont try now will do it maybe in October cycle cause i scare to another failure again. I doing under Dr Helena she said will try to do some uterus scratching this round but i still scare of failure again. Leave it to god to decide then.

Our first IVF cycle only had 4 viable fertilized embryos, 3 of them were used in the first ET (unsuccessful), leaving only one embryo frozen.
We then moved to KL Fertility under Dr Helena to perform our second IVF cycle, in which 7 viable fertilized embryos were obtained, 2 have been used for the first ET after second IVF cycle (unsuccessful), leaving 5 frozen. Subsequently we had the remaining one frozen from the first IVF cycle transferred over to KL Fertility, making a total of 6 frozen embryos.
We will slowly consume the remaining embryos in our FET cycle, in theory, we should have 3 more FET rounds to complete (if things go well). I guess we all have done our best for now, we can now only leave it to the powers beyond our control to determine the success of those remaining cycles.
All the best to your IVF as well... cheers!

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Me also under Dr Helena, also have balance 6 frozen embryo. I hope i still got 3 time to transfer. Just afraid the frozen embryo cant use on my FET. Although i got a good 8 cell embryo frozen but some good grade embryo doesn't work make me feel so sad.

I will try to relax myself and start the FET soon maybe on Oct or November as September i think is too early as i just failed in end of July.
Wish you good luck. Hope we both have our dream come true one day. Cheer

Hi,

Am lying down next to my baby girl and suddenly have the urge to check out this forum. I used to read this forum when I was ttc and sourcing for advice to go for ivf treatmemnt. I have learned one thing is that whatever we do must listen to our heart and take things at a time and relax. Yes.. It might be easy said then done. But hey I went thru the whole process hence thought of sharing my experience here.
I decided to go for ivf after 3 years of ttc and realized that ttc naturally has became very stressful for both hunky and I. So decided to seek for help. There r so many doc in town serious and mixed reviews too.. So, I just listen to my heart and I actually wrote an email to dr Wong from sunfert. Never thought he would reply but I got his reply middle of the night. That's when I told myself I will go with him. Met him and did the test etc... Problem is on my hub..and I am fully ok. So doc actually asked to try iui if we want to but of course he did explained that chances of doing ivf, icsi will be far more successful. Again... I listen to my heard and told hubby I will go for ivf.

The process was tough with all the japs around. But always remember to relax... I didn't even tell people in workplace that what I was going thru... Only family knew. Hence I was taking it quite easy and i have all the support from my family too...took 2 weeks leave relaxing at home.

I was successfully with twins!! One baby girl and one baby boy!! Both hub n me were thrilled as it was one first attempt!!! I never felt so lucky and was really over the moon... Really thank god for such great gift!!

So I guess what I wanted to share here is don't give up or don't think negatively.. Positive and must be strong to take the challenge that god is testing us.. ,ost importantly listen to what your heart tells u. Which doc u r more comfortable with.. When u r ready to go thru this... Etc. it will really helps.

Hope everyone here who is planning to try or on the journey of ivf will be successful like mine!! Spread my love to everyone as whatever miserable period u r going thru soon will be replaced by bundle of joys and happiness!

Glad to see so many mummies having gone through success with IVF. I am seeing many friends around me considering IVF too. Many people nowadays are finding it hard to conceive naturally. What a sad thing.

CONGRATULATION. Happy to hear that. I'm waiting now hope i got a good news like all momies. Hmmm..

I had 3 failed cycle of IVF.
1st IVF mc at week 6
2nd and 3rd ivf, embryo does not stick. None egg make it to day 5
Is really a stressful experience for me

So sorry to hear that.
Wish you all the best in your next run. Have you tried a different gynae from the one that you had your prior IVF?

Hi Cherry,

Which fertility centre you going, mind to share? Hmm...you maybe need to look for another opinion from other doctor. Before do further i think you need to go check all your hormone level and to see chinese sinseh to check any problem with your uterus or body. My 1st fresh IVF also embryo cannot stick is a unexplained fertility but if next round FET i might control my hormone level as doctor suspect my LH FSH or estrogen level too high.

I understand your feeling as is happen to me before too....dun give up sure one day we can make it.
Cheers

Good Day Everyone..

I am under Dr. Helena care now.

TTC for 15 months, no good news. naturally conceive but miscarriage once back in 2012 (have d&c)..

went to see dr helena and found out that I have PCOS.

My hormone test, insulin, vit d result all normal. Hubby test also normal.

Just came back from dr. helena meeting. she told me that next step is to go for HSG.

Can tell me more about HSG if any of you did before.

Although i have not go thru all the iui or ivf yet. I really hope there is someone to help or advice me. because i am all alone. my hubby is very busy with work and have very minimal time for me. and dont feel like sharing or telling any of my family to protect my future baby (million dollar baby issue).

Hysterosalpingogram is performed to check the patency of your fallopian tube and to visualise if there is any anatomical differences that may impair the transport of fertilised embryo to be implanted onto your endometrium.

A contrast agent will be given from your below and it will light up the radiograph and photos will be taken and analysed later on. It may be a bit uncomfortable, you may ask for some analgesic to be taken before the HSG is performed. Do ask Dr.Helena about it. Hope you do not have any allergy towards anything and your kidneys are working well. All the best for your HSG.

Hope this clears off some of your doubts. This is the easiest explanation i can put in layman terminology.

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My wife did HSG before, as mentioned above, they inject a type of radio-dye into the uterine cavity, and take x-ray of the cavity to see if the dye actually flows into the fallopian tubes and leaks out.
My wife's HSG didn't go well, results were inconclusive and shows that the dye didn't flow anywhere. She also mentioned that the process was uncomfortable (yes there were some pain). Later on, she went for a hysteroscope, the video confirms that her fallopian tubes were indeed blocked by scar tissues and no dye flow through both fallopian tubes.
That conclusion led to the IVF process that we are going through now...

Just happened to read this forum, i too had tried for quite sometime and finally we managed managed to conceive naturally. Stay positive and dont give up! Wish all of you guys that are ttc to be blessed with many bundles of joy and happiness.

Hi, this is my first time posting in Lowyat, so may not know how to reply or copy and paste your replies...

I am seeing Dr. Prashant as well with my husband. He has taken two times semen analysis and both came back low % of normal sperm count. Dr. Prashant suggested that we do ICSI, which is similar to IVF but the additional step of selecting a normal sperm and injecting into the egg outside the mother's body. Here you mentioned that your first attemp at IVF did not succeed and did two rounds of IVF? Did you do them back to back? I am concern if my body will be able to handle all these jabs/hormones getting injected into my body! Generally I am healthy and aged 31 now...Husband is 31 too. Thanks for your feedbacks!

Hi...yes we did 2 rounds both IVF. We didn't do back to back. I think Prashant also didn't recommend us to do back to back, he mentioned to take a 6 month break before we try again. My wife took 1 year break before we tried it again( its the emotional trauma that is harder to heal)

When we took the year out, I kept assuring my wife that its ok..and that life was fine (with or without a baby). We also did TCM, (before KL Fert set up the next door TCM). The sensei prescribe us with some herbs (Korean ginseng) as he said my wife's womb was "cold". Barred my wife from drinking cold drinks and so on. As usual we just did what we were told. I cant vouch that it solved our problem but after taking the TCM course, the second egg extraction was much easier.

As far as I can tell, when my wife was going through the jabs...it was ok (physically wise). Some complaints of bloating and so on but nothing major. By right its unlikely to do 2 rounds of IVF / ICSI back to back. This is because when the egg extraction process, usually Prashant will extract as much good eggs as possible. We had to try again cause our first extraction yielded only like 5 good eggs and from that only 2 made past day 3. That 2 was implanted and unfortunately it didn't happen. If you are lucky, as our 2nd attempt, you may have a few more eggs and you are able to freeze any extra. So one may have multiple implants with 1 egg extraction sessions.

If I remember correctly, 2nd attempt we managed to extract 13 eggs and 8 made it pass day 3. Out of that 5 made it blastocyst. We froze it and came back after 1 month for implant. Used 2 of the blastocyst and was successful with 1. We froze the remaining 3 for KIV....

At the risk of being like trying to promote Prashant (which I am not being paid to do so ), you are probably in hands of one of the best fertility doctor around. We went back to him even after 1st attempt failure because we liked him, for being frank. And he gives some aura of confidence ....dunno don't ask that's what my wife says....

Lastly, I sincerely hope that your journey will end in success and welcome you to the realm of parenthood. Here's to multiple months of interrupted sleep at nights...

Let me know if you need any further clarifications. You can PM me if you like

Hi all, I have been married for 6 years and now I'm 37 & trying for a baby. I did read all the comments above and confused as I & my husband are financially not stable. How much is estimated cost for IVF? As some commented it's 15-17K...some even up to 55K. I'm planning to take loan before I start the procedures...please advice. So far the places I surveyed Metro IVF seems to be cheaper.....

Hi, I'm very interested to do IVF under Dr Tham at Ipoh GH, I heard it from my friend but i do not know much about the procedure and how high the successful rate under his treatment?