Hi Ghost! What did you mean by "most fresh non-donor..&

[smileydi]

I was wondering what you mean by "most fresh non-donor IVF cycles fail". Do you mean that FET have a better chance of success or using donor eggs/sperm is better? Thanks in advance for elaborating...

[Ghost]

Nationally, more than half of fresh non-donor cycles fail. For patients less than 35 years old, 40% of retrievals result in live birth. For older patients, it's lower. By age 43, it's down to 5%, and that's among a select group of 43 year olds that get to retrieval.

About half of donor cycles result in live birth.

About 30% of FET cycles result in live birth.

Those are the latest 2004 numbers. For 2006 its probably improved a bit.

As gloomy as these numbers are, they may cheer someone who has had a recent failure and, in their mind, they are wondering what it means about them. The answer is that it probably means nothing about them. Failure in IVF is pretty normal and common. No reason to take it as a personal failure. It's a process.

[angelamw]

Hi, our clinic recon that if you can make it as far as ET then you have a 50% chance of getting pregnant. This is higher than there quoted figures but they are from 2004 and I think they have changed their treatments slightly.

Angela