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New user- introduction

nickis32nickis32 member
edited May 2015 in Infertility
Hello everyone. I am new to this board so I thought it was first share a bit about myself. I am 28 years old and my husband is 32. We have been married for a year and a half and trying to conceive for a year. I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 15 years old and have had two laparoscopies so we knew that getting pregnant might be a challenge for us. In February 2014 I came off of being on an increased dose of Depo-Provera for 10 years to treat endometriosis. In August 2014 I still had not started menstruating yet so I started Provera and Clomid. I did three rounds of Clomid and five rounds of Femara. In January 2015 I have an HSG done which revealed a blocked right tube but the doctor was able to push through the blockage. I have follicle studies done every cycle and while I responded to and Femara by ovulating, my doctor was still concerned about only producing one or two follicles considering the stimulation treatment. She suspects that I will not ovulate on my own without stimulation. Because we still had not conceived by this past February, my husband had his first sperm analysis done. His results came back with good motility and count, but his morphology was at 0%. We were devastated. He is scheduled for a second sperm analysis next week before we see a urologist on June 23. We have been anxiously awaiting this appointment and hope to get more clarification on the issue. It is likely that we are dealing with both male and female factor infertility. We have started to tell our family and closest friends about our struggle but it is such a painful issue to discuss. I decided to join a forum seeking support from others who understand how painful infertility is. It is helpful for me to hear the stories of others whose journey to parenthood was also not what they had expected.

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    Hello

    I cannot relate to the the male factor infertility, but I can relate to having endometriosis. I think like 30% of women endometriosis have activated natural killer cells and cytokines. This has to be a diagnosis given by a reproductive immunologist and I think there are only 3 of these doctors in the USA. Anyways what if means to have the activated NK cells and cytokines is that your immune system is working in overdrive. So it attacks normal things in your body as a foreign object and doesn't recognized fertilized eggs, embryos etc as normal things and it kills them. I had to do IVF and suppress my immune system with prednisone and immunoglobulin to get pregnant. You may not have this problem but the possibility is there and so I just thought I would mention it. Had ladies online not told me this 3/4 years ago I wouldn't be where I am at now. I hope you have a shirt journey and best wishes,
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