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Firefly062Firefly062 member
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I'm pretty much just reiterating what I wrote in the MFI check-in below, but here I am :o)

I'm Beth (30), my husband (37) & I came off birth control and started trying in Sept '10, I had some inconsistent cycles, started using OPKs and realized I was ovulating if not always around the same time of each cycle, at least every cycle it was happening.

After a year someone suggested my husband have a SA which revealed no sperm. For some reason, this had NEVER occurred to me as being a possibility. that probably sounds ridiculous, but of all the things I was worried about being an issue, that was not one for which I was prepared. 

After blood tests, ultrasounds, a MFI urologist and finally a biopsy last month, it's been found to be Sertoli-only syndrome (only the 3rd case our RE has seen in her 20 years! Yay medical anomalies!) and that pretty much ends that. We have moved on to DS and are currently "shopping around" and hope to have registered with a bank and found a donor by the end of this week/next week so we can be ready to for our first IUI cycle in late March.

So, that's where we are. Our health insurance carrier, Cigna, seems like it's going to be covering a good chunk, which is helpful and basically now we're waiting on some answers to logistical things like how to figure out when to order sperm/have it delivered if I don't know when precisely I'm going to ovulate and how the insurance process works, but in the grand scheme of things, those things are pretty easy to answer I'd assume.

Nice to "meet" everyone and I look forward to chatting more!

TTC since Sept 2010
Aug 2011 - SA reveals no sperm
Jan 2012 - biopsy, b/w = Sertoli-only syndrome, DH doesn't make the cells needed to make sperm, moving on to DS
IUI# 1 - 4/1/12 - BFN
IUI# 2 - 5/4/12 - BFN
IUI# 3 w/ Clomid - 6/4/12 - BFN
IUI# 4 w/ Clomid, new donor - 7/5/12 - BFN
IUI# 5 w/ Clomid & trigger shot/Novarel - 8/3/12 - BFN
~Cycle Off~
IVF# 1 - 19 eggs retrieved, 18 fertilized, 8 frosties. 5-day transfer. Beta #1 - 11/20/12 - BFN
FET# 1 - 1/23/13 - BFP - beta 2/4/13 - 266, beta 2 - 623, beta 3 - 1452
Due 10/10/13 - It's a Boy!
You, Me and Someone Else - updated 5/24/13 - 20 week update

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  • LaLe09LaLe09 member

    Welcome! Sounds like you have a good plan ahead of you! Good luck!


    DH: Severe MFI/Azoo Me: Compound heterozygous MTHFR
    IVF #1= m/c- methotrexate @6w2d
    FET #1= BFN
    IVF #2= m/c- D&C @8w5d
    IVF #3= Beta #1 9dp5dt= 252, Beta #2 11dp5dt= 417, Beta #3 17dp5dt= 4,952
    US #2 @ 7w2d= twins, baby B measuring behind
    US #3 @ 8w5d= Baby A doing well, no HR in baby B
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  • LuvWIfootballLuvWIfootball member
    Welcome to the board!  Hopefully your stay will be short.

                          

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    DS1 born July 2002 (previous marriage).

    TTC since Oct 08. DH Dx w/testicular cancer March 09.
    MFI due to retrograde ejaculation/azoospermia.
    5/2 IVF #1 cancelled due to large follie.
    6/14 start Lupron for IVF #1.2. 6/22 start stims.
    7/4 ER and Biopsy.
    7/9 Transferred 2 (1-4BB and 1-3BB) embryos.  4 frosties.
    7/15 +HPT 6dp5dt. 7/18 Beta #1: 193. 7/20 Beta #2: 415.
    8/10 1st u/s - It's triplets!

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  • Firefly062Firefly062 member
    imageLaLe09:

    Welcome! Sounds like you have a good plan ahead of you! Good luck!

    Thanks! I do feel better now that we even HAVE a plan :o) 

    TTC since Sept 2010
    Aug 2011 - SA reveals no sperm
    Jan 2012 - biopsy, b/w = Sertoli-only syndrome, DH doesn't make the cells needed to make sperm, moving on to DS
    IUI# 1 - 4/1/12 - BFN
    IUI# 2 - 5/4/12 - BFN
    IUI# 3 w/ Clomid - 6/4/12 - BFN
    IUI# 4 w/ Clomid, new donor - 7/5/12 - BFN
    IUI# 5 w/ Clomid & trigger shot/Novarel - 8/3/12 - BFN
    ~Cycle Off~
    IVF# 1 - 19 eggs retrieved, 18 fertilized, 8 frosties. 5-day transfer. Beta #1 - 11/20/12 - BFN
    FET# 1 - 1/23/13 - BFP - beta 2/4/13 - 266, beta 2 - 623, beta 3 - 1452
    Due 10/10/13 - It's a Boy!
    You, Me and Someone Else - updated 5/24/13 - 20 week update

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  • Firefly062Firefly062 member

    imageLuvWIfootball:
    Welcome to the board!  Hopefully your stay will be short.

    Thanks. Obviously the optimistic side of me wants to keep thinking "DS will do the job in 1 round of IUI! No problem! Now that we have actual swimmies, what could stop us!"  But then I have to stop myself because...15% chance each time does not really make for great odds that it will happen immediately.  Sooo we'll see how it geos!

     

    TTC since Sept 2010
    Aug 2011 - SA reveals no sperm
    Jan 2012 - biopsy, b/w = Sertoli-only syndrome, DH doesn't make the cells needed to make sperm, moving on to DS
    IUI# 1 - 4/1/12 - BFN
    IUI# 2 - 5/4/12 - BFN
    IUI# 3 w/ Clomid - 6/4/12 - BFN
    IUI# 4 w/ Clomid, new donor - 7/5/12 - BFN
    IUI# 5 w/ Clomid & trigger shot/Novarel - 8/3/12 - BFN
    ~Cycle Off~
    IVF# 1 - 19 eggs retrieved, 18 fertilized, 8 frosties. 5-day transfer. Beta #1 - 11/20/12 - BFN
    FET# 1 - 1/23/13 - BFP - beta 2/4/13 - 266, beta 2 - 623, beta 3 - 1452
    Due 10/10/13 - It's a Boy!
    You, Me and Someone Else - updated 5/24/13 - 20 week update

    BabyFruit Ticker
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  • marieinmonacomarieinmonaco
    Welcome! I hope your stay here is short & sweet! Good luck with your March IUI!
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