Hi. We're a 39yo couple, been trying naturally for 5 years, and IVF for 1 year. We have unexplained infertility. So far we have had 5 cycles. The first cycle didn't even produce an embryo. We have only had a maximum of two embryos so had day 2 or 3 transfers. These have all been ICSI. This cycle (5th) we tried without the ICSI, and let them fertilise naturally. Ended up with 4 embryos. Two were transferred and it all seemed very promising. Period hadn't even started by the day of the preg test, so we started to get hopeful. But of course another BFN. So realistically it doesn't look like it's going to work for us. We're starting to get very angry and depressed, because we can't see any point to life without children. So we keep trying even though it's probably time to give up. Not sure if we should keep inflicting psychological damage on ourselves or just give up and live out our meaningless days watching TV and being stabbed emotionally every time we see a child or someone asks us when we're going to have kids or a friend or colleague struts by with their huge belly, or else take up sky-diving and hope that one day the chute won't open. People keep telling us we should have counseling, but that can't give us children so there's no point. Or we get told to subscribe to the IVF newsletter from our clinic. We did that for awhile and got tired of all the stories of people getting pregnant. As if that would make us feel better.
Ok, sorry for the rant. But that's the only option we have left. :wall:
