When you don’t have your period anymore at age 55, you’re usually not eligible for IVF.
When you don’t have your period at 55, you are also experiencing menopause. It usually indicates that the ovaries have deteriorated in function and have lost their normal ovulation function, and cycles can no longer occur. IVF treatment requires in vivo egg retrieval during a woman’s ovulation period, followed by in vitro union with a man’s sperm to form a fertilized egg.
Without egg production, a woman cannot undergo IVF treatment. Moreover, the uterine lining of a menopausal woman is no longer suitable for a pregnant egg to bed, and the hormone levels in her body are no longer suitable for a woman to conceive a fetus.
Therefore, at 55 years old without menstruation, it is usually not possible to do IVF. The specifics also need to be combined with the woman’s actual menopausal situation and the time of menopause and other factors, by the clinician’s comprehensive judgment.