They told her the odds were just 5%. Her only embryo—graded 4BC and untested—was all she had after two grueling IVF rounds. No special protocols, no endometriosis treatment—because she didn’t even know she had it yet. That diagnosis would come much later, after a laparoscopy. But despite everything, against every statistic, he held on. Today, […]
At 37, she was facing stage 4 endometriosis and the uphill battle that came with it. Determined to take control, she started DIM and Calcium D-Glucarate before IVF—to tame her endo and clear excess estrogen. But when it was time to begin stims, her estrogen was nearly too low to continue. It almost ended before
At 40, after years of heartbreak and determination, she had already faced two miscarriages and four failed embryo transfers—each one with normal embryos. Diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve, silent endometriosis, and recurrent implantation failure, she wasn’t new to the complexity of infertility. Her journey spanned nearly every approach: medicated and modified natural transfers, immunological protocols,
They started trying when she was 35 and her husband 33. Early on, they discovered his sperm count was lower than average—not dramatically so, and without motility or morphology issues—but enough to raise concerns. Her own fertility tests all came back normal. Still, month after month passed with no positive test, no sign of progress.
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