What are my chances of getting pregnant with IVF ?

The commonest question which a patient asks their IVF doctor is, "What are my chances of getting pregnant?" Now this is a deceptively simple question , but the answer can be surprisingly complicated, which is why most doctors will take one of two approaches to answer this.Most will provide a highly inflated figure , because their only purpose is to make sure that the patient comes to them for treatment. So they'll say state some outrageous figure like 70% per cycle — an arbitrary number they pull out of their hat—and they have no way of being able to prove that this is the right number. Unfortunately , patients are not sophisticated enough to ask them to verify this figure, and because most Indian patients still have blind trust in their doctor , they will assume that this number is correct. Being naïve and gullible doesn't help , but patients are emotionally vulnerable, and doctors take advantage of this.The better method is to provide a more tailored figure , based on the patient's age, her medical diagnosis and ovarian reserve —all the various biological factors which affect her chances of success. The problem here is that doctors can't be fortune-tellers , and it's impossible to predict for the individual patient what her chances are going to be.The truth is that we are able to answer this question much more accurately after doing the IVF cycle, because this gives us a chance to assess the quality and the quality of her embryos. However, patients doesn't want ...
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