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Low AMH & IVF – The bigger picture.
Avoid IVF pitfalls and find success along the road of AMH infertility.

This is what you need to know about low AMH and IVF in a nutshell – Women with perfect AMH levels still don’t get pregnant using IVF. Women with terrible AMH levels still fall pregnant naturally. IVF really struggles to help women with low AMH levels fall pregnant. But there is a way to help yourself and improve your chances.

 

This article will put you ahead of the curve using IVF for low AMH treatment.

 

“Do IVF before it is too late”

This standard response from doctors is expensive and often fruitless advice. You will learn there is much more to your AMH infertility story than what your doctors may explain. Follow this advice and beat the odds. You can fall pregnant when you have low AMH levels.

 

Let’s go behind the IVF and low AMH scene to see the bigger picture.
The lower your AMH levels are, the harder it is to grow a good quality egg to fertilize and turn into a baby. Dr Scott Martin.
Who does IVF work well for?

It is a fact that the younger a woman is the more likely she is to fall pregnant. Results from the largest collective IVF studies conclude the following:

Female age has long been the single most prognostic factor for success: the younger the woman the higher the chances of live birth after IVF treatment.

Women under 30 using IVF treatment have boosted IVF pregnancy rates from 17% to 22% in the last decade. Conclusions from this large analysis go on to show, that regardless of any pre-existing fertility problem, age is the determining factor for success.

What is the thread connecting the declining IVF success rates for all women, regardless of the fertility problem? The inevitable decline of AMH levels.

 

Who does IVF not work so well for?

Once a woman is over 36 years of age AMH levels are the main prognostic factor for IVF success. Conclusion: the younger a woman is and the closer her AMH levels: the more likely she is to fall pregnant using IVF.

IVF clinics quote different levels of success.  What you don’t know is these success rates are not based on the results of a single IVF cycle, rather what may be achieved by the end of 11 IVF cycles.

 

Across IVF research, the evidence says doing more than 6 IVF cycles shows very little improvement in pregnancy rates. These results do not include pre-existing fertility problems of low AMH levels.

IVF can be the end of the road for many hopeful parents
IVF success rates are based on women pregnant after 6 consecutive cycles. These statistics do not include age or pre-existing fertility problems.
LOW AMH and IVF

You have seen behind the curtain of IVF pregnancies. Age is the most important factor, and AMH levels tie the decline of IVF pregnancies to all women using the treatment.

 

Lowering AMH levels determine the success rates of all IVF procedures.

 

So what can IVF offer women when AMH levels are lower than expected?

Once a low AMH diagnosis is confirmed, doctors say that IVF is the only hope for a pregnancy. “Time is running out, use IVF before it is too late,” is told to hopeful parents the world over.  Let’s look into the facts behind this statement.

Time is running out
  • Your natural fertility window ends at 45-years of age for most women. Time has generally run out.
  • If you are 40-year old or more your fertility window is closing. Time, like AMH levels, is indeed running out for all women – not just you.
  • Low AMH levels do not mean you are running out time.
  • Low AMH levels are linked to the number of eggs you have in reserve,  causing doctors to promote urgency for treatment- “before you run out.”
Use IVF before it is too late.
  • IVF success rates are half of what natural pregnancy rates achieve over 40-years of age and beyond.
  • Low AMH levels do not specifically reduce your ovarian reserve – you are not actually running out of eggs.
  • A low AMH diagnosis does not mean it is too late to fall pregnant, only that it is too late for IVF to be effective. There is a big difference here.
Is it too late to fall pregnant, or too late for IVF to help me?
  • When doctors say time is running out – you may not be running out of time to fall pregnant, you are most likely running out of time for IVF to help you.
  • Low AMH levels ruin the chances of mothers and IVF doctors to be successful using IVF treatment. It does not mean IVF is your only chance of falling pregnant.
When is it too late?

As of 2020, “When is it too late” is easy to answer when it comes to IVF treatment.

Will raising AMH levels reduce FSH levels?
  • If you have normal AMH levels, it is most likely you will have normal FSH levels.
  • The lower your AMH drops, the higher your FSH levels rise to compensate for egg production. The net result is lesser quality eggs ovulated.
  • You need your AMH levels to be as close to normal for pregnancy. FSH will typically drop as AMH levels improve. Think of the balance like a see-saw.
  • Restoring the correct balance between AMH and FSH is the key to using your own eggs for pregnancy.
The secret to success

Fix your low AMH levels before going into IVF. This will give you the best chance for IVF ovarian stimulating drugs to do their work properly. A 3-month treatment of Ovance and MaybeBaby could be the very thing that gets you over the line with an IVF success.

For more information on Low AMH and IVF – read our 3-part essential guide here.

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Use this combination if you have 2 or more of the following conditions.

  • Low AMH levels
  • Diminished ovarian reserve
  • Poor responder to IVF ovarian stimulating drugs (less than 5 eggs at pick up)
  • Over 40 and wishing to improve egg quality and hormone balance.
  • Day 3 FSH levels above 12 IU/L
  • AMH levels below normal and FSH levels above normal.
  • Estrogen and/or progesterone levels outside of reference ranges.
  • Imbalanced menstrual cycle ( 24 – 32-day menstrual cycles that vary monthly)
  • Diagnosed with fertility hormone imbalances.
The origin of infertility
You don’t decide if you get pregnant, your body does!

Look at it this way and see if it is a fit for you. Your body does almost everything for you and makes all the decisions on how you feel and what you can do. Much like animals that can only breed when the seasons are right, your body will not grow you a baby if it does not have the resources to do so.

How do you know if your body is keeping up with you?

When you wake in the morning you feel like getting out of bed and getting into your day. When you get home at night you are not completely exhausted. You do not feel like you are running on empty all the time. New challenges arise and you have the strength to meet them.

If your body is having a hard time keeping up with the demands you place upon it, it does not have enough energy to grow you a baby. Your body can prevent you from falling pregnant. It does so by diverting energy away from your reproductive systems. Dr Scott Martin.
How do energy levels affect fertility?

Your body is very very smart. It keeps you alive with minimal intervention from you. Your responsibilities to the body are mostly sleeping, eating, going to the toilet and not hurting yourself. Apart from that, your body does everything else for you.

Reproduction is a bonus function of the body.

If your body is having a hard time keeping up with the demands you place upon it, it does not have enough energy to grow you a baby. Your body can prevent you from falling pregnant. It does so by diverting energy away from your reproductive systems. An easy way for your body to stop you falling pregnant is to take energy away from growing your eggs. Your body has down-regulated AMH and now poorly produces eggs that cannot be fertilized.

Low AMH Levels always tired
Why doesn’t your body stop producing eggs entirely?

Producing eggs and being fertile is normal. Your body has the imperative to reproduce – it is the primary function of every living thing on the planet. It can take a long time for your body to wind down a person’s fertility (this goes for men too). Your body wants everything to be normal and in balance. Homeostasis is the default application of your body. If you are out of balance, your body will do a juggling act to do the best it can. Your body may fail over time to sustain a healthy self when challenged with the demands of your life. This is the origin of imbalance and disease in a person’s body.

HOW CAN YOU REALIGN YOUR BODY FERTILITY?

The hardest part… Your body wants the best for you – it is trying to survive. Our life and lifestyles and the things that happen to us, place challenges on our daily survival and ensuring health. Auto-immune diseases are a really easy way to understand that your body is struggling. Your immune system is designed to protect you and help in you in case of emergency, then all of a sudden it turns around and attacks you instead? That is a real problem and an extraordinary imbalance between you, your life, and your body. You are out of touch with your body and headed for long term health disaster.

The easy part… Listen to your body! For the most part, it is vastly more intelligent than us and tends to have your best interests at heart. If you are tired go to sleep. If you don’t like something in your life and it is making your life a misery – change it. Look after yourself and it will look after you. Do what you need to do instead of doing what are supposed to do. Get up, walk, breathe fresh air, reduce your stress, call your closest friends and meet up with them, eat well, sleep better and engage in relationships that make you feel good about yourself and the people you are with.

REALIGN YOUR BODY FOR FERTILITY

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