Repeated IVF failures (4) with poor egg quality  

Dear Dr. Zheng,  

I hope all is well with you and that you remember meJ
As promised, I wanted to let you know how the treatment here in Columbia is going.  Surprisingly, everything has gone very well.  Not only better than expected but better than the last 4 IVFs. 

The day of the retrieval was excellent. I had 9 follicles and eight eggs were retrieved. A record for me. Six of them fertilized and were viable for transfer on day two.  The transfer took place on day three with a total of six embryos! Imagine that the worst ones were as good or better than the last three in vitro.  All were GRADE1 (best grade). INCREDIBLE!!!  We decided to freeze one grade eight that the embryologist and doctor agreed had cells that were a little compacted around the nucleus. Three embryos were transferred. Two had eight cells and one had 9. The embryologist and doctor said they were textbook perfect!

The transfer went perfectly too. We got all teary eyed (including the doc) on how well everything went. We were just waiting for the pregnancy test in about two weeks.

Dr. Zheng, there is no doubt in my mind and in my husbands mind that you helped tremendously.  Before we started seeing you on a regular basis, my egg production was very poor, nor did the quantity or the quality compare to this cycle of IVF. In my last four Failure IVFs, most of the cycle gave me only one very best at 8 cell grade 2 and then only one 6 cells or less. Two RE suggested me go for egg donor IVF. After I received five months of treatment from you with acupuncture once a week and herbal medicine every day, my ovarian function and egg quality had been incredibly improve. You have been a miracle worker! Thank you so much!

July 30, 2006   Liliana T, New Jersey

FSH 24, didn’t qualify for IVF with a renowned infertility clinic in NYC 

A character from a popular TV show once said that you spend your 20s to try not to get pregnant and 30s to try to get pregnant. That is exactly my story. By the time my husband and I decided that we were ready to have children I was in my mid 30s.  When nothing happened after a couple of years of trying, we started to see doctors and take medicines, but nothing helped. We finally decided to get InVitro hoping that it will give us babies. Alas, how little did we know? We went to a renowned infertility clinic in NYC. We educated ourselves by talking to the doctors, taking classes and reading up everything we can find online. At the day that we were supposed to start the treatment, we got a call from the doctor telling us that my FSH was 24 and the chance of retrieving good quality eggs was poor and he suggested us not to go through the process. I was devastated and did not comprehend how something so natural and easy for some people is so difficult for me.  At that time, a friend of mine introduced me to Dr. Zheng.  I was skeptical at first because I was not sure how modern science and invasive surgery could not help me but Chinese medicine can.  I loved Dr Zheng and her staff the first time I went to her office.  The soothing aroma at her office and her personality calmed me right away. Not only she is knowledgeable, but she is caring and warm which I have not seen in any other infertility specialists.  I went to her office twice a week and got acupuncture and herbal medicine. A month later I found out I was pregnant.  I can’t tell you how excited I was that day.  I was excited, happy, relieved and little confused too…I went back to the clinic and told the doctor that I was pregnant and his answer was and I quote: medicine is not science.  I guess since my chance of getting pregnant is not good and will potentially hurt their statistics, the doctors did not even want to give me a chance to have a baby via InVitro. Thanks to Dr. Zheng’s continuous effort, I was able to get pregnant on my own. I continued to see Dr. Zheng in the first three months of my pregnancy. Now my son is a happy and healthy one year old. 
I can’t thank Dr. Zheng enough to not give up on me while others had and give me the greatest gift ever – being a mom.

July 11, 2009
Orangeberg, New York,  Chun Y    More Testimonials >