Re: 2nd post: age and IVF!

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You don't say how long you've been trying, or why you think you're a candidate for IFV. If you're seeing an RE for fertility, they would do tests that would identify the quality of your eggs. There are some unusual women who at age 30 have eggs that are like an average 40 year old women, and there are other exceptional women who at age 40, have eggs like a normal 30 year old women... so it really depends on what your particular infertility problem is., which may have nothing to do with egg quality at all. If your RE felt like IVF is an inevitable option for you (due to other irreversible fertility problems), then doing it earlier would probably be better, but only because an egg has to go through a lot of stress and has to be pretty strong to survive the insults of lab techniques. But I still doubt there is a big difference between an egg at 32 and 33 years of age.

Hope this helps while you're waiting for a doctor to answer, but they would probably need more info about your situation to hazard a guess.

At Fri, 22 Feb 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: So I'm thinking whether I should >go for more aggressive treatment if I still don't get pregnant by June
>when I turn 32 since after that time the success rate for even ivf is
>lower. Or am I still considered to be in the age group of 32 several
>weeks or days before I turn 33 so I still have one more year before I
>consider ivf?
>Thanks very much for your idea!

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