anyone who has become pregnant with IUI with MFI?

amaranth9

I posted this question on the IF forum and someone suggested that I ask the same question in this forum.  Basically I am 37, healthy as far as testing shows thus far except for AMH of 0.7.  My husband, on the other hand, has sperm concentration running from 2-11million with 25% motility. 

We got pregnant once on our own with an early 1st trimester miscarriage.  We have seen 3 fertility docs, all of whom recommend to go straight to IVF.  However, since we got pregnant once without any intervention, I haven't totally given up hope in IUI.

Do any of you have stories of success with IUI and MFI?  I could really use some encouragement at this point.....this has been such a hard road and it's so difficult to know how we should invest our money and time with these decisions.  I struggle with maintaining hope in the face of discouraging stats (both with IVF and IUI) and I would love to hear some stories with happy endings that defy these stats.  Thanks!

saraeric

The best advice my DH got from his urologist was to cut out alcohol (not that he drank a lot but we were willing to try anything!). We could not believe how much his numbers improved from our first to second IUI. That 2nd IUI was the charm and now we're about 6.5 weeks along. He initially had count and motility issues. Can't remember specifics but they were low enough that our RE said we definitely needed IUI over TI. Good luck! 

BBColt78

We had MFI (0% morphology) and we went straight to IVF.

I'm actually commenting to say that my RE recommended Proxeed and it really helped improve the quality of the sperm.  I think if you are going the IUI route, a supplement is a good idea. It's $100 a month and you need to allow at least three months for it to kick in.

Good luck in your decision. MFI sucks

Balabusta

I've got a good story for you! Pretty much the same diagnosis on all sides, me slightly low AMH, DH moderate MFI ranging 5-10mil with 20-25% morph. We did 3 IUI's with 50mg clomid and1 round IVF and all resulted in BFN. We had purchased a 1 fresh- 2 frozen cycle IVF but we had none to freeze. During this time, DH stopped wearing boxers, stopped taking baths (for some reason my DH loves baths, go figure!), stopped drinking and took men's fertility vitamin blends.

Doctor said that we could do a free IUI as replacement for one of the frozen cycles. We upped my clomid dosage to 100mg, froze a sample from DH and combined it with a fresh sample for the IUI. I had little to no hope considering this was our 4th IUI, but to my surprise we got our BFP! Thank Gd ever since we saw those 2 lines, it has been smooth sailing! 

So it can happen! Most important thing is to make sure DH is doing everything he can to improve the quality of the sperm, so that hopefully if you can freeze a few good samples and try it that way. Hope this helps you! Best of luck!