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PGD at 39
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Hello, I have had two miscarriages and have been advised to start IVF. My partner has PAF a genetic condition. I found that we can have PGD. The thing is no one told me about this and came across it by chance. Guys has said they will try and get me a cycle. My local hospital I get the impression are saying about normal IVF. If the sense that PGD looses any good eggs that are effected. Im at the top if the age limit. Has anyone of a similar age had any experience pls. It sounds like your lucky to have one egg thats ok, me being older trying to work out if normal IVF will give me better chance to have a baby. And pray they are ok????x
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im 39 and had IVF and PGD abroad. I had 9 follicles at egg collection , 5 were successfully fertilised after biopsy PGD only 3 were good quality. We also wanted to balance our family so actually only one was the gender we wanted - we had one embryo transfer and I had a BFP two days ago. The only difference is I have had a child before naturally and only opted for IVF because I hadn’t conceived naturally after 6 months. We also found after tests that hubbys sperm had issue so wanted it tested genetically and decided to throw in family balancing in the end too.
The better quality egg the more more chances of success I am told so again pgd process took out eggs that were not top quality
hopefloats- it’s a tricky one as I suppose with PGD it does reduce the number of embryos to transfer but it also gives you the best ones to transfer so more likely to result in pregnancy. The ones that are not genetically the best ones may not result in a pregnancy.
Its a but unfair for the hospital to put you in a moral dilemma of child v unaffected child. We all want healthy babies and if having the extra tests gives you the best possible chance of the transfer resulting in a pregnancy then why wouldn’t you want that.
i was conscious of my diminishing reserves because of my age and hence decision to do IVF immediately but when I had my tests done I was told I had good amount of eggs for my age - have u been told how your egg reserves are? Could you have some of them tested for potential transfer and freeze any remaining ones without the tests I wonder? If there are no suitable after pgd then at least you have some frozen as potentials?
The biggest advantage of paying is no waiting waiting lists and moving quickly whether it’s in uk or abroad. I would have gone crazy waiting so long between appointments. We were lucky we had the finances to take the step straight away.
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im sure Duniya give a free phone consultation- we had one after we had sent all our first set of test results for the dr to consider our protocol and we were able to ask questions. Maybe worth sending all your results and asking for a phone consultation and asking about the chances? We didn’t pay anything until we had arrived in Cyprus so we didn’t get charged for the consultation.
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Thanks in advance x