{"id":1233,"date":"2008-08-03T00:52:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2008-08-03T00:52:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T04:52:28","slug":"stunted-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Stunted research"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to read and process things. Doing a lot of googling.<\/p>\n

Some people online with this problem (very poor egg maturity during IVF) wrote that their doctors say it’s linked to PCO and insulin resistence. I have symptoms for neither of those. I do have a high antral follicle count and I am a very high responder in IVF, but there were no cysts, I have no cycle issues, and none of the other long list of symtoms other than acne. Insulin resistence… now I would think, if that were the case normally, that my pregnancy GTT would have shown something. My numbers were very low, not even borderline.<\/p>\n

I found the article my doctors wrote<\/a>. It was in fact not about me<\/i> specifically, but about a woman with a very similar condition. After her karyotyping they found she has Turners mosiac X syndrome. That makes me twitch a little. I’m now quite<\/i> interested to see if anything turns up on my karyotyping.<\/p>\n

IVM (in-vitro maturation) is still experimental<\/a>. To be honest it makes me a little nervous because we DID get one good embryo. And one good embryo is better than none. And, despite my slight OHSS symptoms, the whole IVF cycle wasn’t all that difficult. I’m more inclined to try experimental stim protocols to try to increase the number of mature eggs they get from me.<\/p>\n

This study<\/a> seems to indicate that normal fertilization in vitro may give better outcomes than ICSI, for cases like mine. This is a concern Den has. Ever since I found out that our first cycle flunked IVF 101 due to the eggs being immature (and, thus, un-ICSI-able anyways) I’ve considered ICSI on our second try to be superfluous. Den’s argument is, “But if we only have one mature egg, I want to make DAMN SURE it gets fertilized!” And, okay, he has a point. My only hesitation is that I don’t really like to be messing around with the things if it’s not necessary (they’re having a bad enough time as it is, stop poking them! They’ll get mad!), but if insurance is covering the cost I’m not really going to argue against it. I’ll discuss with the doctor when we get closer to actually cycling.<\/p>\n

You know what annoys me the most right now? The fact that you have to subscribe to these journals in order to read the full article! Obviously, as someone who is just a patient searching for answers, I cannot afford to shell out hundreds of dollars on some articles to read. So, what, I have to comb forums for answers from other patients who likewise have no actual real clue either? I want facts<\/i>. I want numbers. I want real research.<\/p>\n

Apparently I should have become a doctor. Or at least an embryologist. As my dad said… hindsight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am trying to read and process things. Doing a lot of googling. Some people online with this problem (very poor egg maturity during IVF) wrote that their doctors say it’s linked to PCO and insulin resistence. I have symptoms for neither of those. I do have a high antral follicle count and I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ttc2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}