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Reasons to do IUI next cycle?

DavezWifeDavezWife member
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I would love your help listing some reasons to go ahead and do medicated IUI next cycle. Davez is dragging his feet a little, and admits he just does not know much about it. He only sees that he has to "leave his junk in a cup" and can't look beyond that. (Skoor, your story didn't help, lol)

As a reminder, two SA's in 2007 said his morph stunk at 1%. 6 pregnancies later, he begs to differ. But we're both older now, age 36 (him 37 next week) and the clock is ticking in more ways than one.

My ammo so far, please add what you think:

1. I responded very nice last cycle to 100mg clomid cd3-7, ovidrel trig. I can't take that med forever. Get while the gettin's good.

2. If we move onto other injectibles, our odds of multiples increase. We'd like to avoid that.

3. I'd like to monopolize the "you're more fertile after a loss" theory, this will be post cycle 4, so it's the tail end of that wive's tale.

4. Obligatory Conception Sex is really getting old after 3+ years of it. Hey Davez... new porn!

 Any other thoughts on reasons to push for the IUI? And I don't know much about the one shot vs. double... any insight on that is most welcome. Obviously I'll talk to my doc, but you guys are the pro's. lol.  

Thanks.

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Re: Reasons to do IUI next cycle?

  • Smudges*MomSmudges*Mom member

    Since they "clean" the "sample", what is put back in via IUI are the good swimmers.  My joke is that they spin out the dumb ones.  :o)

    Best of luck with your decision and swaying (wooing?) of Davez!

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  • rispergirlrispergirl
    imageSmudges*Mom:

    Since they "clean" the "sample", what is put back in via IUI are the good swimmers.  My joke is that they spin out the dumb ones.  :o)

    Best of luck with your decision and swaying (wooing?) of Davez!

    I was going to say something like this.  Since Davez' stuff is questionable, it could be that only gimpy ones are making it to the egg.  With an IUI, you will know that a lot of the crummy swimmers will be washed out.

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  • Mrs.LisaPMrs.LisaP

    Here is something from my blog..

     https://tryingtohavebabyp.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-iui.html 

     

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  • skoorbniborskoorbnibor member

    Wait, what story did I tell you???

    I would also be sure to talk about the best of the best, since the sample is washed!

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  • DavezWifeDavezWife member

    about how Mr. Skoor left it in a cup for 27 months or something like that ;-)

    He takes this "your sperm is not perfect" fact very personally. Well, you know what, I responded great this past cycle. We did everything "right." (ok, my CM could have been better. and?)  But Maybe for once it (the BFN) was not my fault. I would never point fingers and say it was his, but I get kinda tired being the baby killer or the failure, KWIM? I don't mean that as snarky as it probably comes across, but for fecksake, shoot it in a cup and get over your bad self. we have a family to grow here. Either that or we dump this huge arse house and buy a bigger boat. ;-P

     

     

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  • marcuejmarcuej member
    I say it's worth a "shot"!  Ha, ha.  But seriously, it does take the best of the best and make sure they wind up in the right spot at exactly the right time.  Takes out the guessing game.  Does your insurance cover IUI's?  The only reason I'd even remotely question it is that it can be $600 + oop without help from insurance.  But I'm with you...why waste time when you want to add to your family?  Have you talked to an RE about whether its time to try this?  If I remember correctly, you've never done IUI.  Whatever you decide, I hope it brings Ava a brother or sister!!
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  • DavezWifeDavezWife member

    Any doc I've seen has always wanted to do IUI's... with 1% morph stamped on our chart, it's a no brainer. The 6 knockups have stumped even the best of them.   I'm calling the billing office on monday for guesstimates on costs, our insurance is great, but with the overpriced D&C and previous IF crap, we hit our deduct and now pay 20% of everything until Jan 1 reset. Which is not bad, but it all adds up. holy crap does it all add up. So money is not really an issue. I can't go throwing it around, but as long as we're not talking the cost of IVF, we're ok.

    We have a huge yard remod coming this fall, but we're DIY'ing some to save money. Another reason I need to get pregnant - to save myself from manual labor!  bruuhaa!!!!!

     

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  • kimarino13kimarino13 member
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    Since they "clean" the "sample", what is put back in via IUI are the good swimmers.  My joke is that they spin out the dumb ones.  :o)

    Sperm washing only helps with motility.  Not morphology.


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    imagekimarino13:
    imageSmudges*Mom:

    Since they "clean" the "sample", what is put back in via IUI are the good swimmers.  My joke is that they spin out the dumb ones.  :o)

    Sperm washing only helps with motility.  Not morphology.

     but from my understanding, this actually does help with morph, because only those with the strongest motil will make it through wash, so that in turn helps the strongest (even with notsogreat morph) get to the egg... doesnt eliminate morph issues, but helps...  it gets the strongest to the egg, and most (not all ) experts believe that the shape of the sperm has nothing to do with the DNA of the sperm..

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