We were back to square one.
I met with the OBGYN for my D&C follow-up, and he suggested some testing to look for thrombophilia. It came back with some positive marks, showing I was super good at clotting (hence the SCH from my first pregnancy). We met with our RE to discuss another IVF cycle to create more embryos, and he said I had to get cleared by an immunologist first to confirm how to treat the blood clot risk in the IVF process.
I also started working with a reproductive immunologist in California (there are only like, 3 in the whole country). My results came back:
- MTHFR - C677T homozygous
- PAI-1 - 4G/4G homozygous
- Factor XIII - V34L heterozygous
- Vitamin D deficiency
- High insulin
- Native Killing 8.5-10% (50:1)
- Unconfirmed Asherman's Syndrome from the D&C
That's a lot to go up against. I felt so defeated, but we kept moving forward because it was all we knew how to do.
We started shots for egg retrieval #2 in February 2020. My RE was out of town for the entire thing, and I didn't feel like the other doctors were very supportive of my decisions. It was a really rough cycle.
They were able to retrieve 34 eggs, but only 10 were mature.
We planned to do PGS testing from the start this time, so they were able to biopsy and freeze all 7. Of those 7, 4 were normal. Of those 4, 3 are girls and 1 is a boy!
That's where we are today. We have 4 embryos on ice, and we are waiting to decide what to do from here. Our plans were thrown in the wood chipper by COVID-19, so I honestly don't know what's next for us.
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