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Success after IF
Low counts and IUI
I started this discussion on another board, but was told to post here too.....
I'm sure the answers or encouragement I'm looking for is somewhere on here, but I'm limited on the time I have to search ! My husband and I have been sort of trying for over a year to have a baby. January of this year we had a semen analysis done and his counts were low. About 10 million. Since I was checked out, and everything was fine, plus I have a daughter from a previous marriage, the DR recommended doing IUI for us. Its taken some acceptance on my husbands part, but this month we went for it. I went in last Wednesday for a follicle check and everything was perfect. I had been on Clomid and last Wednesday night I received a shot of Ovidrel. We went in Friday morning to do our first IUI. My husband said that he was extremely uncomfortable giving the sample this time and he felt that he didn't "get it all out" (TMI I know) Anyhow, once it was washed the count had dropped to about 3 million. We were in shock. There have been a lot of changes since January as far as changing jobs, he's now on shift work, he works in extreme heat, etc. etc.....The DR tried to discourage us from doing the procedure, but we decided since we were there, and it only takes one, we did it. I was very disappointed in how my DR wanted to shut down the whole operation and not do any more IUI's and send us straight to IVF. Has anyone experienced numbers like this with results ?
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Re: Low counts and IUI
HTH and GL
We had all of our tests done and came up with low and slow counts. I had 5 rounds of IUI that did not work even with counts of 10 million on the day of the the IUI. We did end up going for the IVF which was successful. The first time I had a natural miscarriage. The second time, this time, I am pregnant with twins and everyone is healthy. I know it seems strange that the doctor jumped right to IVF but he is doing it for a reason. Believe me, I wanted to do a round of IVF much sooner and my Dr. wouldn't agree to it. I would think about how long you would like to wait and how many tries you want to take. My DH was not thrilled about the whole thing either, including the IVF. He is thrilled now though. I think that it is tough for a guy in general to know that they are the reason that you are going through all of the meds and procedures. My DH had a really tough time watching me take my injections. Sorry I don't have happy IUI news but IVF worked for us and I had no known problems. Just something to consider...especially if your insurance covers it.
Congrats to you !
It's definitely been hard on my husband. He has been so down and edgy since Friday. I guess my aggravation wtih the DR is that we hadn't even done IUI once, much less several times. I just felt that we should at least try it a few times before trying something else. We have a lot of research to do on IVF before we would do it. Honestly, in my heart of hearts, I think we would maybe adopt before IVF, but I'm just speculating. I have a little girl from a previous marriage who just turned 6 and I know how blessed we are to have her. I'm just really praying for this to work out. I think our next step is going to be for my husband to see a urologist and then go from there. I'm not sure what our insurance covers either.
I'm going to rec a change in "collection" for your DH.
When we did our SA, DH did it on his own and his numbers weren't "great"
When we did our IUI #1 we had a little "sexy-together" time and they were better.
For #2, even more time together collecting the sample and they were great.
It sucked, because we needed to rent a hotel room near the RE, but it was worth the effort.
If your RE wants to jump right to IVF, I would get a second oppinion.
GL!!
Our only issue is MFI and our 2nd IUI was successful with counts of just 2.5 million each time (we did a back-to-back IUI), so there's always a chance. My doc never said it was too low to give it a try. We were going to do 2 IUIs before IVF and to my surprise the 2nd one worked. We have gotten pregnant on our own once before though (but miscarried). I really don't think it would hurt to give a few IUIs a chance if you are not comfortable doing IVF right now. GL!
TTC #1: IUI #2 = BFP , Betas 550 (16 dpiui), 1523 (18 dpiui)
Hypothyroid, LPD, FSH 13.0, TTC 2 yrs B4 BFP
TTC #2: FSH 23, AMA, IUI 1, 2, 3 = BFN, IVF #1 = MC
IVF #2 = BFP - Betas 194 (14dp2dt), 366 (16 dp2dt), 841 (18 dp2dt)
(vanished twin ~7 weeks)
We had one IUI with 3 mil post wash, one with 3.5 million and one that was cancelled becuse the count was only 500,000.
We got PG naturally the very next cycle. So although the IUI's didn't work, we did get PG when we were on a two cycle break before IVF. Total blind luck or immaculate conception. My mom is leaning towards the miracle explanation. I am leaning towards the fact that we threw everything we had at that cycle and we got lucky.
I hope you have good luck soon too.