Low progesterone is not necessarily due to poor embryo quality, but may also be due to luteal insufficiency, preeclampsia and other reasons.
1. Poor embryo quality: It may be chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo, sperm or egg quality problems, poor embryo quality may lead to low progesterone, but you can’t rely solely on low progesterone to determine the quality of the embryo, you need to combine with other tests.
2. Luteal insufficiency: patients with luteal insufficiency will cause insufficient secretion of progesterone in the body, thus causing low progesterone.
3. Pre-eclampsia: When a pregnant woman has a small amount of vaginal bleeding accompanied by paroxysmal lower abdominal pain or lower back pain, it may be a symptom of pre-eclampsia, which can lead to a decrease in the levels of progesterone and chorionic gonadotropin.
There may be other reasons for low progesterone, so when you have low progesterone, you should seek medical attention for checkups and treatment, and it is not necessarily due to poor embryo quality.