Egg retrieval - is our doctor negligent?

[Multivit1]

We are undergoing IVF treatment with the help of an egg donor. We were informed by our clinic that the donor currently had 10 eggs and they were waiting a few days in the hope that she would reach 20 eggs. The donor has been using Lupronite. Our doctor called us on the day of retrieval to say they had only secured one egg and that the other nine had - in his words - 'popped out of the ovary' overnight. We are pretty devastated as our chances now are greatly reduced. Our doctor informed us that in his twenty years of practicing, he has only ever come across two similar situations to this.  

Does anyone else have a similar story ? Is this because the donor was not taking the prescribed medication or that the doctor perhaps didn't monitor her progress closely enough or increased the medication ?

We have spent a considerable amount of money to get this this far, should we be looking for some kind of compensation from the clinic or the donor?

[AnnieBrooke]

As to the drop-off rate of ten eggs to one, that part might not be so unusual.  Our donor produced 19 eggs, but by the time the transfer day came around, there were only five, we transferred two, and the next time none of them thawed, so in essence it took 19 eggs to produce one.  

[Multivit1]

Hello,
thanks to everyone for your feedback. We are devastated, the embryo didn't get past two cells and the transfer will not take place. I keep thinking did the donor discontinue her lupronite or did the clinic not monitor her properly ? after all, we were informed that she had 10 eggs and then one egg only for fertilization.  I hear of donors producing up to twenty eggs, something has definitely gone wrong.

[AnnieBrooke]

I'd check into the statistics about this clinic.  If they are very good, your doctor might be right and it's just one of those things, but if they are not so good, it might be a claim for compensation (at least, another round).  If so, see an attorney, because the clinic is not just going to offer to compensate you.

[Mariana101]

I'm so sorry. Maybe they did not monitor her as they should have since the eggs only pop out of the ovaries when they are ready in terms of size. They could have avoid it if they had the retrieval a day earlier. I'm so sorry. I'm using donor now, starter 2ww on Friday and the donor had 12 eggs, 11 fertilized, 7 survived the second day and only three survived the third day so they transfer two "so-so" eggs" I'm very nervous but I'm so tired of this. My eggs were much better looking in the "outside" than the donor but that does not mean anything. Sometime not so good looking eggs but younger (the whole point of doing donor eggs) and better in the inside so I just need to pray and accept whatever it is.
I hope you have a lawyer. Here in MA you need to sign a contract and the prospective parents and the donor have lawyers. Ask him/her about compensation.

Good luck and I feel bad :(

Lupron is used to supress the ovaries, she must have been taking Follistim or Gonal F to stimulate the growth of follicles. I will ask more about her protocol and talk to her nurse to see what is their explanation.