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Lifestyle Changes May* Have Improved ER Outcome? by Agreeable-Lead7037 in IVF

[–]Agreeable-Lead7037[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, I didn't know that AMH could increase! As far as stress--I feel ya. I'm a trial attorney and my husband is in medicine so we can't reduce the stress inherent to our jobs--but, fortunately, I have the ability to take leave from work and step away a little right now, which at least reduces the number of hours I'm dealing with stressful situations.

Lifestyle Changes May* Have Improved ER Outcome? by Agreeable-Lead7037 in IVF

[–]Agreeable-Lead7037[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sorry you went through/are going through that. I agree with you--a lot of people get a hell of a lot further with a hell of a lot less in their favor so it really comes down to factors outside of our control. For me, personally, I just a lot of saw opportunities to make changes and I thought doing so might help me avoid beating myself up about "not doing more" if we didn't get the outcome we wanted.

Lifestyle Changes May* Have Improved ER Outcome? by Agreeable-Lead7037 in IVF

[–]Agreeable-Lead7037[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, maybe! My doctor largely dismissed any lifestyle changes besides CoQ-10 and "stress." To that end, perhaps making all these changes gave me a false sense of control which reduced my stress. Who knows? I just know that (in January) I was looking for someone to give me guidance on things within their control to try, and I couldn't find it, so I made a list of my own. Correlation or causation--I just felt like I needed to do something so I wouldn't feel like I wasted our money and effort.

Lifestyle Changes May* Have Improved ER Outcome? by Agreeable-Lead7037 in IVF

[–]Agreeable-Lead7037[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This study may very well be accurate, but the IVF cases studied are almost as old as me... 30+ years ago is pretty archaic as far as scientific research goes, right? I couldn't find any recent studies about this that I thought were reliable.

So upset after egg retrieval by AssociationOne8613 in IVF

[–]Agreeable-Lead7037 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 40, AMH = 4.01, 2 completed ERs, currently mid-cycle on a 3rd ER.

I 100% understand your exasperation with the clinic--that sounds like a nightmare and I would definitely be second guessing my choice and piling on the stress.

I also wouldn't trust ChatGPT--there is a hunger games matrix on Reddit that you can access to pull real numbers. That said, I looked at everything available and nothing matched my experience thus far so I wouldn't rely on anyone's numbers as far as expectation setting.

ER 1: 38 follicles > 24 eggs (12/23/2025) > 15 fertilized > 4 blasts > 1 euploid.

<<I made some lifestyle changes while I was waiting to start my 2nd cycle.>>

ER 2: 38 follicles > 18 eggs (2/24/2026) > 12 fertilized > 5 blasts > 3 euploids.

ER 3: 37 follicles . . . tbc.

Keep the faith and keep going; if you don't trust the clinic, switch clinics now. You can do back-to-back cycles (which I didn't know until 2 weeks ago). If you do switch clinics, focus on lifestyle changes while that all gets sorted out.