Egg/Sperm Quality

kjplaza · March 2017

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I just had my 3rd miscarriage 2 of my pregnancies ended by week 9, the other was earlier. My ER of course plans on running new tests before we move forward however i have a feeling another round of IVF, egg retrieval will be in my future as i only have 2 frozen embryos left. I want to start prepping my body and my husbands to improve any chance we can. originally all my tests have been normal no diagnosis and my husband was only diagnosed with very low sperm count.
Any information helps with supplements or vitamins any of you have used.

radmom27 · March 2017

@kjplaza I'm so sorry for everything you've been through. Have you had an immune panel done and/or been tested for clotting disorders?

LoveDontCostAThing · March 2017

@kjplaza -im so sorry to hear. did you guys do icsi?

funkykey · March 2017

@kjplaza I've heard one or two women recommend "It starts with the egg", which is a book about egg quality. Could be ridiculous and totally unscientific, for all I know. I've not read it but I've read some reviews and started taking CoQ10 since, which is like a vitamin. I'm also considering acupuncture.

Sorry for your loss and best of luck to you.

fivetimesnoluck · March 2017

I am so sorry for your losses.

I have also heard many of the women with repeated losses praise the book, "It Starts with the Egg." I have not read it, but believe it to provide meaningful insights into how you can make changes to improve egg quality.

Another book/community I hear a lot about is "Take Charge of Your Fertility." (https://www.tcoyf.com/)

There are some REs who specialize in recurrent loss. If you have an option to look for someone like that, I recommend it.

MY RE has me on the following protocol to help prevent loss: Ultra Cal Night (primarily a magnesium supplement), Vitamin E, Qunol (CoQ10), Prenatal vitamin, and a couple of prescriptions, including a low dose steroid and an anti-inflammatory. For my DH who has shown moderate MFI, he has him take a multi vitamin every day and a Cold-eze (throat lozenge) twice a week for the zinc.

If you have any questions about this, let me know! I am preparing for my first transfer and it will be with donor egg and DH's sperm.....

MariaBend25 · April 2017

If you do icsi that is less "work" the sperm need to do to fertilize. But, either way I would look into the usual vitamins. I have these great gummies for pregnant women since my doctor recommended prenatal vitamins. My husband is also on a vitamin that has fish oil. If you aren't active, you can try working out to just get in better shape, losing even a couple pounds could help your overall health. And for the sperm, the usual advice of loose boxers, non-scalding hot showers, ect can help make a better environment. My husband had increased mobility and morphology after two months of vitamins. But still overall it was pretty bad numbers, but zero to two percent is an improvement!!

Aera11 · April 2017

I also read 'It Starts With An Egg' -- I took from it what I thought was relevant. I removed all that toxic cleaning products, no more plastic anything, and the vitamins suggested I was already on.

I take a prenatal, vitamin d, dhea, co-q10, myo-inositol, baby aspirin for blood clotting. I removed alcohol from my diet and we try to eat as clean as possible with a few splurges here or there

I also do fertility acupuncture.

I'm not convinced anything of it will help but it can't hurt. Trying to be optimistic and hope these small changes will make a difference.

funkykey · April 2017

@Aera11 - exactly. I mean, I'm not at a point yet where I've started removing plastics or anything like that, but I've been making changes to my diet, and have started taking different vitamins. If we're still TTC in a while, I'm sure I will make more changes.

I try not to get too into it, or to become too paranoid (we're unexplained, so really, it could be anything!), but if I can make some small change that will give my eggs a better chance/improve egg quality even slightly, I am down.

kjplaza · April 2017

Thank you everyone! i meet with my RE next week to go over everything so hopefully that will help, he is a reproductive endocrinologist so i don't have to see a separate MD for that. I will ask about the ICIS for our next round, i cant remember our numbers from egg retrieval but i believe we had around 20 eggs retrieved, 13 fertilized but only 6 made it to 5 day blasts. Initially we were supposed to be an easy straight forward case as my husband only had low count no morphology issues. Clearly there are other underlying issues that we will have to figure out but i am hopeful we will have the answers soon.

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