negative - THE END

been testing since 7DPET and gotten negative all along. Decided to bring forward the beta hcg blood test to Monday, got the results at 1pm, it's a very miserable 2.4. the nurse was still saying that it's early, and it may rise..but who the hell is she kidding?

all articles and all ivf centres in the world will concur that 2.4 is very NON PREGNANT. in fact any level below 5 is NON PREGNANT. I must admit that i am pretty annoyed at being 'entertained'

tried contact SF loh but was unable to get through to him as he was in OT all day. emailed him but didnlt get a reply either. it's frustrating, frustrating frustrating.

called kkh ivf again and was told to continue the progesterone jabs till thursday and then take another blood test on Friday. what the '1 quarter fish, 3 quarter duck' for?

hubby was optimistic, said why not....so we end up trudging to KKH early on tuesday. I then asked another the nurse manager if it's really necessary to continue on the progesterone jabs - she took a look at the chart and said ' let sf loh see you later and he will let you know'

that answers everything.

we waited 30 min to see as he's in OT (again). sf loh explained the figures and went through the egg retrival process, how many eggs retrieved (22), how many fertlised through IVF (final figure ?) and how many fertlised through ICSI. roughly half of the eggs retrieved was via IVF and ICSI.

total of 7 fertlised embroyos with 3 at grade 4 and treated with ICSI which was transferred this cycle.

The balance of 4 embroyos are frozen and mostly grade 3.

we discuss about the next cycle FET. And he still works on the premise that if so long the embroyo survives the thaw overnight, it should be transferrred, rather than waste it trying to grow it to blastocyst stage.

he said the chances that the embroyo will grow to blastocyst stage in the culture medium is so much lower than the chances that it will grow in the womb, that it is considered like wasting the embroyos.

i mentioned about the fact that if the embroyo doesn't survive till blastocysts stage after thawing , what makes him think that it will survive in the womb? he replied with some analogy about SAF men in camp training in the desert (which i so didn;t get) but anyways.....the idea is that the culture medium though the best that KKH uses is still not the real womb environment.

why did this cycle fail?
there is no specific reason. we can do only so much, the rest is still unexplained medically.

will the next cycle work?
no one can answer that question. FET has been known to have at least 10% chances lower than a fresh IVF cycle. But then there are also women who didn't get pregnant via a fresh cycle but gotten pregnant with FET. There's always hope!