DH's SA results came back with only 2% morphology. His count and motility are good, even above average. I think he's in shock - I really don't think he believed that any of his tests would come back abnormal. RE is recommending IVF with ICSI, but we are going to be trying IUI first since we have some insurance coverage for IUI. Anyone else dealing with MFI?
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He hasn't said anything about it yet, but I'll ask him when I go back in for monitoring. I'm not sure if he will order one after we do the IUI.
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DH's second SA was MUCH better than the first. His motility was 10% rapidly progressive on the first and 32% on the second one. I recommend that you ask for a repeat at least 30 days from the date of the original SA. It may not be as bad as you think. They usually go by the best SA results when planning your treatments.
I am sorry you are having to deal with this.
We are dealing with MFI: morph - 1% (pre- and post-wash), motility - 30% (prewash) and 60% (postwash), and count - 12 million (pre-wash) and 25 million (post-wash). We went right to IVF/ICSI.
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First of all- I'm very sorry you are going through this. Like the other girls said- MFI SUCKS!
I can't say much about the morph #'s- our issue is really low count- but what I can tell you is that the best thing we did was to go see a Uro that specializes in MFI. It's possible that there could be something that could help the #'s improve and help you out with IUI before having to go to IVF.
There's a lot of us here dealing with MFI- but if you ever need anything- feel free to PM me. GL to you!!
We are also newly dx with MFI (low morph: 1% and low motility: 27% but average count). I would like pp said request a second SA just to confirm. Good luck!
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Hope you don't mind that I'm responding, but I did just want to say ditto PP about having a 2nd SA done. Also, YH might want to see a reproductive urologist if that hasn't already been suggested by your RE. DH's #s were low all three, included 0% morph, and the uro found a varicocele. He had the surgery to repair it, and the morph went from 0% to 8% in three months. It was just a slight varicocele, but the repair surgery worked for us.
Good luck to you! I hope you're able to find an "easy" fix before you move on to IUI.
We have MFI issues too, and are going straight to IVF/ICSI.
After the first SA, our RE referred him to a urologist. The urologist felt that we could have success with IUI. It seemed that his numbers when the uro ran the test were okay, maybe borderline low, except morphology (3%). But, there is a test that the uro didn't do which the RE does, which was to process it the same way it would be done for an IUI. The RE did that with 2 SAs, and both times we ended up with less than a million sperm post-wash. The chance of success with those numbers is nil so it's right to IVF for us.
Do you know if when they do an SA, your RE office processes the sperm to get the post-wash numbers? If so, that could be driving their recommendations.
That being said, if you have insurance coverage, for IUI... the only harm in trying it is the time involved. Good luck!
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