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Update on Uro Appointment
Ladies,
DH and I met with our uro today to discuss our WTF appointment. The urologist (this is the one I mentioned yesterday that takes my husband's morphology very personally) does not think that we should throw in the towel on DH's sperm quite yet. He agrees with us to wait until at least April to see if the fertility vitamins DH started in December did anything to help. He said that we shouldn't operate on his borderline varicoceles quite yet because his FSH levels remain slightly elevated (13.7 when they should be 11-ish or less), and with high FSH levels, the chances for successful surgery are less than 10%. If his morph improves in April, we'll do another IVF cycle. If his morph remains the same but FSH improves, we'll do the surgery and then do IVF in August. In the meantime DH is on a maintenance medication that is not linked to fertility medications, but his doctor has given us the permission to stop those meds with proper monitoring to see if that helps at all. Then, we have another IVF consult with another clinic on 3/11 and scheduled another one with ANOTHER clinic that the uro suggested for 3/15. The purpose of these consults will be to share all the information including what our first IVF clinic said about IVF with ICSI not working for us and recommending that we go with donor sperm. So, all in all, I feel optimistic that we have a chance at having DH's sperm morph improve or at least trying again with his sperm.
And, in the meantime I ovulated today, so we decided to shoot the moon and try naturally even though our odds are somewhere between slim to none.
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Re: Update on Uro Appointment
It sounds like you had a very encouraging visit! Here's hoping that his morph improves and he doesn't have to go through surgery. Keeping my fingers crossed!
(and have fun "shooting the moon" tonight!)
So glad to hear you're feeling optimistic.
As far as "shooting the moon," why not go for it.
My chances of conceiving naturally (when we were having sex) were about 1 in a many, many million, but I always fantasized that there would be one very determined sperm that made its way to the egg.
FET #1 Dec 2013 BFN
FET # 2 Feb 2014 BFN
No more frosties
IVF #2. September 2014
PGD yielded 2 perfect 5d blasts
SET November 9, 2014
Nov 23, 2014. Another BFN
Not sure where to go from here.
That is really encouraging - I'm glad you got better news today. Sounds like a great plan to see what the vitamins do too... GL!
My DH started taking fert vitamins in January so I'm hoping to see some improvement too. We'll see I guess!
So glad you are feeling better about htings and that this Dr. has given you some hope! Really hoping those vitamins and the new clinic do the trick and that you will be able to do IVF in august.
GL with the trying naturally too!
My husband's morphology is incredibly poor (0%). Usually when morphology is "0%", they can still find enough normal ones to do ICSI since we are talking about 0% of a very large number, and we all remember how math rounding works. However, the clinic's embryologist told us that they literally had difficulty finding even one normal sperm. We both agree that sperm donors are an option that we'd pursue, but we want to exhaust all other options first.
So glad the appointment went well and that you have such a thourough plan lined up.
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All of that sounds VERY encouraging. GL this cycle....you just never really know. Crazier things have happened.
Just curious.....where is your RE consult on 3/15?
Sounds like you have a great plan
Best of luck for a break cycle BFP!
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