IVF tips | Are more eggs better for IVF Success?

Doctors usually give women fertility medications during IVF to mature multiple eggs. Are IVF Success rates better if you have more eggs?  Tune in to this episode of InfertilityTV to find out.



The eggs sitting in your ovaries right now are immature eggs. Normally, only 1 egg matures each month. This means that you have 1 chance that this is a healthy, good quality egg. One chance that it will be fertilized. 1 chance that it will grow and develop into a healthy embryo and one chance that it will implant into the uterus to produce a pregnancy. Chances are pretty good that with only 1 egg, it will not get past all of those hurdles necessary to produce a pregnancy.



Ultimately, you only have to have one healthy embryo to produce that pregnancy. Now, lets say you have 10 eggs and 8 of them are mature eggs, 5 of them fertilize and two of them grow and develop into healthy good quality embryos. With 10 eggs, we have a much better chance of finding the good healthy embryo that we want.



So, yes! If you are doing IVF, getting more eggs is better than having fewer eggs. This is the reasons that women who tend to produce fewer eggs, such as older women or women with poor ovarian reserve, get pregnant less often. Its a numbers game.



If getting 10 eggs is better than 1, wouldn’t 100 eggs be better than 10? In theory, yes, it would be better but we run into some problems. Women who mature a large number of eggs in response to fertility medications are at greater risk for a problem called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome or OHSS.



Women who develop OHSS can develop some serious medical complications. While these complications can usually be treated, it is better if we could avoid OHSS in the first place. So, the best IVF doctors, will try to come up with some middle ground. Get enough eggs to increase the chances of finding some healthy embryos but not so many that a woman develops OHSS. This can be a tricky balance.



The InfertilityTV bottom line?  Its possible that 1 egg can get you pregnant and its possible that 100 eggs wont. But it general, the more you get, the higher the probability of success. You just have to find a way to do it safely to keep your risk for OHSS low.



Infertility TV is your weekly source for the best medical information if you have infertility, recurrent miscarriage or are just trying to conceive. (TTC). InfertilityTV covers infertility testing, fertility treatments such as Clomid, Follistim and Crinone and fertility treatments like IUI and IVF (in vitro fertilization)



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How do I know if I am ovulating?

If you are trying to conceive, it is absolutely required that you ovulate. But how do you know if you are ovulating? It can be very confusing. Today on InfertilityTV we will clear up the confusion.
There are a number of different methods that can indicate if you ovulate. Some are more reliable than others.

First the methods you use without the need for a doctor.

1) Are your periods regular?
Generally speaking, if you are getting your period regularly about every 28 to 30 days, you can say with a high degree of certainty that you are ovulating. Subtract 14 from the length of time from one period to the next and that is likely the day you ovulated. So if you have a 28 day cycle from the beginning of one period to the beginning of the next, then you probably ovulated around day 14. If it was 29 days, then you likely ovulated on day 15 and so on

2) Use a home ovulation predictor test.
There are several different kinds of ovulation tests. The most commonly used tests and the least expensive ones, are the urine tests. They measure a hormone in your urine called LH which triggers ovulation. Start checking your urine each morning before you think you will ovulate and keep checking until it turns positive. It is a very accurate and highly reliable way to determine ovulation. There are tests that use saliva but they can be trickier to interpret. More recently, there has been an explosion of high monitors that you put in your bed, wrap around your wrist, place in your bra or even in your vagina. These high tech devices measure a variety of things such as temperature, heart rate, electrical resistance in your skin. Its tough to determine how well these instruments work since the only evaluation of their effectiveness comes from the company selling them. They are however, very expensive and there isnt any data yet to say they work better than cheaper methods

3)A thermometer
Some of the high tech devices measure changes in body temperature. Another way to do this is with a special thermometer called a basal temperature thermometer. Its very inexpensive but can be tricky since there are many things that can cause your temperature to fluctuate. It is only accurate in telling you if ovulation happened after the fact. So its good for documenting ovulation but poor for trying to predict ovulation beforehand

Methods that do require a doctor
1) Follicle monitoring
When an egg matures before ovulation, it does so inside of a small cyst called a follicle, doctors can use ultrasound to measure how big a follicle is getting. At the same time, she can do blood tests to check your estrogen and LH levels. To predict when you are going to ovulate

2) Progesterone blood test
After you ovulate, the levels of another hormone called progesterone will increase. A blood test in the doctors office can look at the level of progesterone and tell you if ovulation occurred. In most labs, a progesterone level over 2.5 or 3 indicates ovulation. Like the temperature changes, progesterone only increase after ovulation so its good for documenting if ovulation occurred but not for predicting ovulation.

Documenting ovulation isn't the only thing you should be doing to investigate infertility. Make sure you are performing all of the testing in this playlist but remember to like this video first. If you have a question leave it in the comments. click the link in the description if you want to become a new patient. Or just subscribe to infertility TV now you'll get new episodes weekly. It's like having a fertility specialist in your phone.

Infertility TV is your weekly source for the best medical information if you have infertility, recurrent miscarriage or are just trying to conceive. (TTC). InfertilityTV covers infertility testing, fertility treatments such as Clomid, Follistim and Crinone and fertility treatments like IUI and IVF (in vitro fertilization)

One of the most popular playlists on InfertilityTV are the TTC tips which are great even you are not struggling with infertility

Dr Morris is a practicing IVF and infertility expert who sees patients at IVF! located in the Naperville Fertility Center.

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Early Miscarriage vs Chemical Pregnancy: 3 Things to Know

There are multiple types of Early Miscarriage. It is important to learn which type you are having for optimal treatment.



A chemical pregnancy (also known as biochemical pregnancy) is a pregnancy that has been confirmed by a blood or urinary pregnancy test.



A biochemical pregnancy loss is a type of early miscarriage that is lost before it reaches the point there it can be seen on ultrasound.



Biochemical pregnancy losses appear to be much different than clinical pregnancy losses.



A clinical pregnancy losses is a type of early miscarriage that occurs after being verified with ultrasound. You should know the difference as it has important implications for your treatment.



It is well known that clinical pregnancy losses are most commonly due to chromosome abnormalities. Testing embryos for chromosome abnormalities during IVF will reduce the number of clinical miscarriages. The older a woman gets, the bigger the decrease in clinical miscarriage will occur with PGS.

However, a number of studies have found that the use of PGS does not reduce the risk for biochemical pregnancies in IVF. Stated another way, most biochemical pregnancy losses are not due to chromosome abnormalities



Chemical pregnancies are not just a result of fertility treatment



Many women become aware they have had a chemical pregnancy because fertility doctors closely monitor them for the occurrence of a pregnancy. Sensitive blood tests can detect a biochemical pregnancy even before a woman misses her period. Women who are not involved with fertility treatments miss these very early pregnancy losses or attribute them to something else - like stress causing her period to be late.



In 2015, doctors from Canada compared the rate of biochemical pregnancy loss in women doing IVF to women who conceived on their own without fertility treatment. They found that the biochemical pregnancy loss rate was actually a little lower in the IVF patients. This shows us that biochemical pregnancies are not just the result of fertility treatments.



Doctors don't understand recurrent biochemical pregnancy losses



The vast majority of the studies that have been done on couples with miscarriage or recurrent miscarriage have specifically excluded couples with biochemical losses. So all of the recommendations for testing and treatment that you see about the antibodies and other problems - do not apply to recurrent biochemical losses. The bottom line is that doctors do not understand recurrent biochemical losses at all and therefore doing the same thing we do for recurrent clinical losses is not warranted at this time.



Infertility TV is your weekly source for the best medical information if you have infertility, recurrent miscarriage or are just trying to conceive. (TTC). InfertilityTV covers infertility testing, fertility treatments such as Clomid, Follistim and Crinone and fertility treatments like IUI and IVF (in vitro fertilization)



One of the most popular playlists on InfertilityTV are the TTC tips which are great even you are not struggling with infertility



Dr Morris is a practicing IVF and infertility expert who sees patients at IVF! located in the Naperville Fertility Center.



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Male Fertility Supplements - Do They Work?

Fertility supplements are often recommended to boost male fertility. Can they increase sperm counts naturally? Surprising new research from Dr Randy Morris MD-The BOARD CERTIFIED fertility expert.



This video covers how natural fertility supplements (sometimes called fertility foods ) like CoQ10, pycnogenol or vitamin E might work Hint: it has to do with free radicals!



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One of the most popular playlists on InfertilityTV are the TTC tips which are great even you are not struggling with infertility



Dr Morris is a practicing IVF and infertility expert who sees patients at IVF1 located in the Naperville Fertility Center.



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