May I know normally how often will a person do her blood test during the IVF process? I was reading all the posts and replies and it seems to me that patients are often required to have blood tests. But for me, I only have 2 blood tests for the whole process. 1) The first time seeing dr right before IVF starts and 2) 2 days before Egg retrevial process. I feel a bit strange to have so little blood test
I have embryo transfer last week. And I went to visit Dr again yesterday. I assume Dr will give me blood test for certain hormone for pregnancy? but I was not required. I see many JM saying they'll go back for blood test... I feel strange. but I am subscribed with endometerin virginal tab, 2 times a day and 2 hormone injections...and I'm only told to have preg test 14 days after transfer and report it
p.s. this is my first IVF, first fresh embryo transfer
Hi cutecutetown,
I did my first IVF last August. Was very lucky to have 8 embryos. 3 embryos were implanted fresh and 5 were frozen.
I was extremely lucky and had 1 baby out of the 3 embryos. My family is now thinking of heading back to our home country and is wondering if we can bring the 5 frozen embryos with us so that if we chose to have another baby later we can use the the frozen insteading of starting a whole new cycle.
Dear imconfusing,
There is no strict rule on how many times you need a blood test during ivf. Afterall, blood test results only provide an extra tool for the doctor to assess your ovarian response and stimulation progress. If your doctor has gathered enough information from the ultrasound scan alone, he may or may not want a blood test to verify such info.
Again, it is not a must to do a blood test one week after embryo transfer. You mentioned that you are getting endometrin and hormone injections; for whatever hormones the blood test is for, it would only tell you are taking the medicine and nothing else. Don't over-worry yourself, the hardwork on your part is done. Once the eggs are retrieved, there will be minimal needle pricks.
Hello hoshi88h,
Generally you may export your embryos. HK does not have much export requirement, although there may be import requirement by your home country. You will need to first find an IVF center in your home country where you want to keep these embryos; and then you can contact your IVF center here to check out the administrative procedures.
As long as the receiving center is decided, your involvement will be kept to paperwork only. The actual arrangement and shipment of embryos will be done by professionals; the clinics will contact each other to facilitate the transfer by international courier.
remember me? I just want to share with you a good news that I confirmed to be pregnant Although it's still a long way to go before everything is getting stable. I just want to thank you for all the advice
i just heard from doctor that there are some statistics showing that asians do poor than non-asians in fresh cycles, but it's not much difference in frozen cycles. have you heard anything about that? but on the other hand, frozen ones may not survive when thaw. so how do you weigh this tradeoff?
Dear jlin123,
The information was actually published information in our field, but I personally still think this is inconclusive. I did look at my own center's results as I have some Caucasian patients over the years. They seem to be doing just a little better in terms of absolute percentage, but the difference is not statistically significant -- meaning, there is no difference among asians and non-asians, at least in my center.
The published information you mentioned was merely a finding. This data was based on foreign centers overseas, so their day-in day-out patients were probably non-Asians. Nevertheless, the finding is not going to affect our care and service to our patients.
Don't get confused as the above was a comparison between 2 different groups of patients. The second issue was comparing fresh vs. frozen. These 2 comparisons (asian vs non-asian, fresh vs. frozen) cannot be combined to get an interpretation.
Coming back to fresh vs. frozen, again there are studies showing fresh success rate is not as good as frozen success rate. Maybe it is true, because the endometrium in a fresh cycle is a little "crazy" after all the stimulation drugs. However, as you said, there is a tradeoff if you freeze the embryo(s). My view is that a fresh transfer is not that bad as women can still get pregnant from it. For the moment, I won't recommend a woman to freeze every embryo if she is physically fit (as determined by the doctor) to have a fresh transfer.
Although it's still a long way to go before everything is getting stable. I just want to thank you for all the advice 
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