what's the definition of mild/moderate/severe MFI?

Re: what's the definition of mild/moderate/severe MFI?

• BabyRN2006 member

  January 2011

  A website I was looking at today said anything under 10 million was severe. Another website I saw said under 20 million is significant MFI and under 5 million is severe. Either way we fall into the severe category
  

  
  
  

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• jesselayne8 member

  January 2011

  I dont know the exact parameters but MH is considered mild because he has a high count, borderline motility, and poor morphology.

  
  
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• ChicagoWeded2007 member

  January 2011

  BabyRN2006:

  A website I was looking at today said anything under 10 million was severe. Another website I saw said under 20 million is significant MFI and under 5 million is severe. Either way we fall into the severe category
  

   ANd was that total sperm or per ml?  My RE just looks at the total number of "swimming" sperm and DH was at 7 million of those, which was not enough to do IUI.

  
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• 99luftballoons

  January 2011

  ChicagoWeded2007:

  BabyRN2006:

  A website I was looking at today said anything under 10 million was severe. Another website I saw said under 20 million is significant MFI and under 5 million is severe. Either way we fall into the severe category
  

   ANd was that total sperm or per ml?  My RE just looks at the total number of "swimming" sperm and DH was at 7 million of those, which was not enough to do IUI.

  7 million motile sperm and they told you it's not enough to do an IUI?  That is VERY strange. I have seen some clinics not want to do it under 5 million, some under 1 million, but a cut off higher than 7 million seems pretty severe. I know Cornell does them with anything above 500,000.  Have you considered a second opinion?

   

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• ChicagoWeded2007 member

  January 2011

  RE said he would do it, just that he would recommend IVF with those numbers.  That's good to know.  I felt like we'd be totally out of the game for IUI if the SA didn't improve!

  
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  Baby N conceived after 1 miscarriage and more than 2 years of TTC. Diagnosis was low sperm count. We found success after 3 months of anastrozole to increase DH's testosterone and one IUI.
  Some charts
  
  
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• BabyRN2006 member

  January 2011

  Yeah, I thought it was 5 million for IUI too.
  

  
  
  

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• 99luftballoons

  January 2011

  ChicagoWeded2007:

  RE said he would do it, just that he would recommend IVF with those numbers.  That's good to know.  I felt like we'd be totally out of the game for IUI if the SA didn't improve!

   Ah, that makes sense   Hopefully you can get to a point where his counts are high enough for you all to feel comfortable doing an IUI.

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