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What Are My Chances Of Getting Pregnant With ICSI Treatment?
Hi im 26 my partner 31 we are in the middle of our icsi treatment ive started my menopur injections today, my scan today showed good results but im still worrying it aint going to work for us my partner has gotta have sperm retrevel on the same day as my egg collection but we are both light smokers and the sress of all this is making it harder to quit what are our chances of this working for us?
Mon, 13 Jan 2014
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
Kindly stop thinking negatively as it can negatively affect ICSI result by increasing your stress. Though its true that smoking slightly reduces chance of pregnancy, its not that it will lead to 0% pregnancy rate. You can negate the side effects of smoking by eating diet rich in antioxidants/taking nutritional supplements. Its quite understandable to have the stress of such an invasive & costly procedure, but please don't stress overpower you. Regarding chances of getting pregnant, it depends on many factors like the quality of sperms your doctor gets during retrieval, the center's baseline success rate etc. Your treating doctor is best judge regarding prediction of that chance.
Hope this helps you.
Wish you good health.
Welcome to HCM.
Kindly stop thinking negatively as it can negatively affect ICSI result by increasing your stress. Though its true that smoking slightly reduces chance of pregnancy, its not that it will lead to 0% pregnancy rate. You can negate the side effects of smoking by eating diet rich in antioxidants/taking nutritional supplements. Its quite understandable to have the stress of such an invasive & costly procedure, but please don't stress overpower you. Regarding chances of getting pregnant, it depends on many factors like the quality of sperms your doctor gets during retrieval, the center's baseline success rate etc. Your treating doctor is best judge regarding prediction of that chance.
Hope this helps you.
Wish you good health.
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