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MsFaith15

Hello 3T board! I've been living over at TTC for a while but am now starting to ask the questions that ya'll are discussing so maybe I belong here?

I stopped BC in September 2013. I didn't track anything for the first few months but had sex regularly. I just completed 8 months of temping and OPKs with good timing. No luck.

I saw my OB last month and she said we can start testing. DH just had his seman analysis and it came back with 20% morphology (she said 30% is the norm but said its ok? Is that right?). We will begin testing for me after the New Year.

I will be lurking until I get a feel for this board. Looking forward to getting to know you all better!

SND1231

Hi welcome to the board. Everyone here will tell you if you've been trying over a year go to a RE. Don't waste time with an OB. Especially do not take any fertility meds with an OB without proper monitoring. I'm sure the other ladies will explain how this can harm you. A lot of women here started at an OB and then moved to a RE without any issues and their testing transfered over to the RE but some did not. I do hope your stay is short and sweet here!

BunnyBerry

Welcome, but I'm so sorry you have to be here! We'll try to make it a pleasant experience, and hopefully it will be short.

How in the world is an OB qualified to interpret a semen analysis? Also, what she said doesn't make sense. The only two ways I have heard of to analyze morph, 4% or 14% are the cutoff. (Anyone have a different experience?)

I would get that consult in with the RE asap, and if insurance requires it, go ahead and complete the testing (ultrasound, bloodwork, HSG) with your OB, sending the data to the RE to interpret. REs tend to call for a more thorough hormone and other panel, and you wouldn't want to start any treatment until giving an RE the chance to do what they do best - figure out what's wrong and what gives you the best chances of success. 

dancerspose

I'm sorry you're finding yourself transitioning here, but I hope your stay with us is short.  I pretty much second everything PPs have said regarding the SA and getting to an RE as soon as your insurance allows.

Good luck!

mshandlebar

Welcome! I agree with the others. Find an RE. I wasted a lot of time with my OB. Otherwise, I hope your stay here is short. Good luck!

pinkdoggie

Welcome. Everyone has already said what I wanted sto say about an OB vs RE, so I just popped in to say hi!

dominicandreamer

Also just saying 'hi".  I hope your stay here is quick.

moto611

@BunnyBerry - I had a different experience! For my husband's first SA he went to a random LabCorp. His morphology came back at 16% and the "normal" range was 70-100%, according to the lab print out. Yes, they wanted to see over 70% normal forms! The urologist said he'd never seen a scale like that and told us they probably meant normal range was >30%. When we moved on to the RE we gave him those lab results and he said he wanted to do a repeat test because "morphology was really very low." So since the RE thought 16% was very low, there MUST be some sort of scale that is looking for a higher percentage. Morphology was fine on the repeat SA, so now I just think LabCorp is not very good at doing these tests.

@MsFaith15 - if you end up working with an RE, they'll probably repeat the SA and they'll probably have more sophisticated lab techniques.

deelopi9

Hi and Welcome! I'm sorry you are here but glad you found us. I made the mistake of not doing the SA through a lab that specializes in fertility and I wasted 1 1/2 years after my RE decided to go off of those numbers. She did warn me about not using the SA thru their lab and because of it I ended up wasting 6 cycles with an incorrect diagnosis. So I spent a lot of money, heartache and time due to the fact I didn't want to spend the extra $200 in a SA. Good luck.