Was Your last IVF cycle unsuccessful? unfortunately?
Are you looking for answers to why that may have been the case?
Keep watching.
I might have some of those answers for you.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Mark Sklar The Fertility Expert and welcome back to fertility TV.
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And there's no better time to empower your fertility than after a failed IVF cycle.
But often a question that I get asked from patients is, why did it not work?
Now sometimes there's really no answer for it.
Sometimes it's just a matter of chance.
Everything was good, everything went well, the embryo was perfect, transfer, well, we
did all the right things and it just didn't work.
And there is an element of that that we should understand that just sometimes chance wasn't
on our side and the numbers just didn't work for us.
It doesn't mean that you shouldn't evaluate what you did and everything else that happened
to see if there were some places that can be improved and sometimes those are the reasons
why it's not successful.
So outside of the hole chance factor, there are some reasons that I think can be causes
for failed IVF cycles.
The first one that I want everyone to remember and recognize, and it's a hard one to digest
I think is that IVF is an experiment.
Yes.
Are there parameters that we all work within or that the IVF clinic works within?
I'm not an IVF doctor, I don't perform IVF.
I just worked with patients who do it and I see it often.
I've worked with thousands of patients going through IVF, so I've seen these tendencies
over and over and this conversation is one I have often that IVF is just an experiment.
They based their protocol on several factors, your age, your hormone levels, your weight
and your height.
And they just make a determination of saying, okay, so this is where we're going to start
for you.
This is my best guess of what I think is going to yield the right results for you.
And this is where we're going to start.
But you know, sometimes that guests is just not right and where they thought it was gonna
yield good results just didn't.
And it's an unfortunate thing because IVF is expensive, it's emotional, it's time consuming.
So it's a shame that some of this just comes down to an experiment.
Now, hopefully we've all learned from that first cycle and make some changes and improve
on the second cycle so that we're not in the same situation.
But I don't think anyone goes out saying, oh, this is an experiment.
But I do think it's important for you to look at it that way because I think that's the
way, it should be approached and understood.
Two, Protocol is everything.
If your physician chooses the wrong protocol for you, your body's not going to respond
because it's not the right protocol for you.
Protocols, everything, the type of medication, how much when they give it.
So there's so many nuances to this and there are different protocols that can be done based
on circumstances, hormones and so forth that if you're given the wrong protocol, not purposely,
I'm not saying any of this is purposeful, but if you're given the wrong protocol, then
odds are your body's not going to respond the way that we wanted to or expect it to,
and so we're not going to yield the results that we were hoping for.
So protocol is really important.
Number three, if you haven't spent the time and the effort necessary to find out what
the root causes and the reason why you're not getting pregnant, then that could make
a difference and interfere with the IVF process because if you haven't figured out why you're
not getting pregnant, then you can't create a plan for addressing those root issues that
yield the result that you're looking for.
You're kind of just putting a bandaid on and just trying to force a pregnancy versus treating
the real issue to create a natural pregnancy.
So I do think addressing the root cause, finding out what that is and creating a plan around
it is really important.
And that doves tails into my fourth point, which is preparation.
If you haven't found out or you did find out what the root causes, but you didn't take
the time to prepare for the IVF cycle in advance based on your root issues and giving yourself
enough time to make sure that you created a right environment and nurture, nurtured
your ovaries and nourished your uterus to create a right environment for implantation,
then odds are you didn't do enough in advance of your IVF cycle.
So those are the four reasons that I typically see in my office that IVF cycles don't work.
If you've had unfortunately a failed IVF cycle and you have a feeling or know why it didn't
work, leave a comment below, let us know what got in your way of having a successful IVF
cycle.
I'd love to know, and I'm sure everybody else watching these videos would love to know as
well.
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