Help! Please help me read these pre/post wash sperm counts...

Re: Help! Please help me read these pre/post wash sperm counts...

• MissSilverlake

  August 2009

  I might have answered my own question. What did women do before Google?

   More sperm, with more energy reserves, with less distance to travel ? makes sense, doesn?t it? Incidently, the non-pregnant uterus (picture it like a closed fist) can only hold a volume of 0.5 mL of fluid before the fluid re-fluxes back out. The average semen sample is between 2.0 and 4.0 mL. The idea, then, is to put as much motile sperm in that 0.5 mL as possible. That end is not achieved if you just take 0.5 mL of unwashed sperm since you?d be leaving much of the specimen behind. By preparing the specimen in the lab, the majority of motile sperm are able to be concentrated into a 0.5 mL volume by separating them from the remaining volumes of semen, cellular debris, immotile sperm, etc.

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• psychmusetls member

  August 2009

  thanks for the info!

  S/PAIFW
  Tara & Dave - TTC since September 2006
  PCOS - dx 1999 (amenorrhea) | freakishly long fallopian tubes
  Hypoglycemic | thyroid issues | severely anemic
  Multiple Clomid cycles of 50, 100, 150 - absolutely no response
  Follistim 50/100 | Follistim 75/125 | Follistim 100/150 IUI - all BFNs
  Converted IVF - BFP - m/c | FET - BFN | IVF #2 = BFN
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