What’s New?

It’s been a while since I wrote as I wanted to get enough information to be able to make informed decisions for myself.

After my follow-up Consultation at my current clinic, it came clear to me that my egg quality was actually part of the issue. This is age, weight and based on the endometriosis treatment I’ve had for the last 15+ years. There really is only one of those that I can control – and unfortunately there was nothing to say that it was really going to make any difference.

I had already been on a host of suppliments that should have helped Egg Quality, but I had a worse round when I was on them – and my current clinic did not want to change protocol, or medication.

Between Christmas an New Year I started looking at other things, mainly double donation using Egg and Sperm Donation. My current clinics Donor waiting list was over 18 months, so I knew that if I was going to go this way, then I was definately going to have to move clinics.

I had a look through several clinics, some which have their own egg bank, and some which don’t, the imporance for me was 1 – how long will I be waiting for a donor and 2 – can I actually afford it in 2021.
I called a few clinics and settled on one, which is actually a clinic that was in the front-running when I was using choosing my own eggs too.

I chatted to my New Clinic and asked questions before booking and paying for a consultation and implications counselling. I felt that this money would be well spent, regardless of whether or not I decided to persue.

In the meantime i requested a copy of all my notes from my current clinic to go through them with a fine tooth comb and see if there was anything in there that made me think that another round or two with my own eggs was the better way to go.

There wasn’t.

After my consultation with the New Clinic the Dr agreed that in reality the issue is my egg quality and my % of a successful ongoing pregnancy with donor eggs and donor sperm will pretty much be double or more than using my own eggs.

And not only that I’m starting to feel excited about proceeding again.