Empty follicles??? Please help!

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Hi, hope someone can help. I had egg collection a week ago and I had 17 follicles 15 of which were 18-22mm. When I had egg collection they didn't find any eggs except 1! They said all the follicles were empty and most likely reason is that because I've probably got poor quality eggs or because I have no eggs left?! Has this happened to anyone else or have you heard of this before? I'm 37 so not too old and as you can imagine I'm totally devastated 😢😢 I had ivf 5 years ago and had 22 mature follicles which were all top grade, that's why I'm feeling really confused as to how in 5 yrs I've run out of eggs! Do you think it could be because of multiple tries at super ovulation that my supply of eggs has run out? Any advice will be much appreciated xx

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Sorry to hear, it is an absolute nightmare going through all that for zero eggs. It happened to me on my first cycle. I had only four follicles and got zero eggs.

I've just had my third egg retrieval and although I still get very few follicles I managed to get five eggs.

Apparently it's quite rare for zero eggs, we're just unlucky. But try again if you can and it's not likely to happen again.

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Have you had your AMH levels checked?

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,Sorry to hear that... Good luck!

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Thanks for the reply, makes me feel a bit better. I was told there was a chance if it happening again so now I'm too scared to do ivf which is not cheap only for no eggs :(
Don't understand why I had so many follicles though and for them all to be empty except 1.
It was transferred on day 3 and it had 10% fragmentation which isn't too bad but not good. I'm not holding out any hope of it working 😢
Did a test today 6dpt which would make me 9dpo snd it was negative. Feel so broken and can't stop crying. This was our last go 😢😢😢

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I'm so sorry Sammi. This is the 1st time I'm trying letrozole 2.5mg. Today was my 1st ultrasound so i can't give you much advice :(. I'm also dying to conceive. I hope you conceive soon as well.

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I asked my FS if doing IVF would make my egg supply go down more quickly and she said no. The follicles would start growing anyway, IVF just makes more mature, instead of the usual one. So don't worry that you used up too many earlier. Definitely request that amh test. GL!

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Maybe the eggs were stuck and they couldn't aspirate them out.

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You're basically born with how ever many eggs and that's all you have, once they're done you have none. Sorry you're having a hard time, it gets harder every month for me :-/

Empty follicles??? Please help!

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