A common question many patients ask is how soon they
can start the next IVF cycle when the first IVF cycle fails .
It’s very hard
to bounce back to normal when your HCG comes back as negative, because you had
hope that your IVF cycle would work. After all, no one would start a cycle if
they didn’t believe in their heart of hearts that this would be the one that
would give them a deeply longed-for baby !
However, when
your hopes get shattered, you no longer feel confident that IVF will ever work
for you . You are extremely worried and anxious , and question whether you
should start a second cycle or not . After all, if the first cycle failed, what
is the certainty that the next one will work ? And how many will you have to do
in order to be successful?
These doubts are
completely normal , because everyone starts IVF , and
expects to hit the jackpot in the first cycle itself. Even though their head understands the success rate is not
100%, in their heart they are sure that they are going to be
one of the lucky ones, which is why they go to pieces when the cycle fails.
It takes time to
recover emotionally from the failure of your first cycle , so please be kind to
yourself, and give yourself time to grieve, so you can bounce back.
From a medical
perspective, however , you can start your next cycle immediately , if that's what you want to do , especially
if this was a frozen cycle , because your body goes back to normal immediately
. After a fresh cycle , the doctor will need to do a scan on Day 2 to make sure
that your ovaries are quiet before starting your treatment, - which could be another fresh cycle , or a frozen cycle .
Rather than
worrying about whether it's medically fine to start again, you actually need to
ask yourself: – are you mentally prepared to start again ?
Some patients
feel so sorry for themselves after the first failed IVF cycle that they just
can’t muster the courage to go back to the IVF clinic to start another one . If
that’s true for you, then please take a break , until
you feel more optimistic .
On the other
hand, many patients are eager to start the next cycle as soon as possible, because they know that sitting at home is
not going to give them a baby. They would rather attempt a new cycle as quickly
as possible , so at least they have something to look forward to, rather than
brood about their failure.
The truth is
that a second cycle is often much easier to do than the first cycle , because
you've " been there , done that ", and you know
exactly what's involved . Your anxiety levels in terms of treatment minutiae
are much lower, and you have demonstrated that a failed IVF cycle is not the
end of the world, that you are resilient, and that you can start over.
Uncertainty
about the outcome will always be true for any IVF cycle, so the sooner you
start again, the better your chances of having a baby sooner. If you are
mentally prepared , there is no advantage to wasting time sitting at home ,
obsessing about your bad luck and feeling sorry for yourself !
Need help in getting pregnant ? Please send me your medical details by filling in the form at www.drmalpani.com/free-second-opinion so that I can guide you !
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