Hi Ruth,

My first cycle of IVF was not really successful with only 2 eggs retrieved and only 1 fertilised. My FS could no explain why and he did gave me the option to wait 3 months while I lost weight, or go again. He did emphasise to me that losing weight was not a definate answer to what had gone wrong and he couldn't say whether it would improve subsequent results or not.

I opted to go ahead with a second cycle without dieting and our results did improve. We got 7 eggs with 4 fertilising. Whilst we did improve with the number of eggs I was also on high doses of medication.