Hello Everyone.
My wife and I just recently started to try for our first.
Her and I are both planners and a little OCD. We don't like surprises and really try to get a nice baseline understanding of things.
With that said, I sort of had a gut feeling that something may be off with me. I purchased the at home SpermCheck and the results came back abnormal. Afterwards, I made an appointment with a local lab to have a SA done and here are the results below, my concerns are the count, morphology and viscosity:
Concentration
Volume: 4.30 mL
Concentration: 2.48 million/mL
Total Sperm Count 10.66 million
Motility
Progressive: 36%
Non-Progressive: 14%
Immotle: 50%
Total Motility (Progressive+Non-Progressive): 50%
Total Progressive Motile Sperm: 3.84 million
Sperm Morphology
Normal: 3%
Head/Structural Defects: 95%
Acrosomal Defects: 1%
Neck/Midpiece Defects: 1%
Tail Defects: 1%
Total Normal Sperm: 0.32 million
Semen Factors
Compete Sample: Complete
Abstinence: 3 days
Liquefaction: <60 minutes
Viscosity: >2
pH: 8.0
Agglutination: None
Other Cells: 0.0 million
Debris: Light
The doctor also noted:
Abnormal; very poor prognosis (Very low chance of pregnancy without medical intervention; chance of pregnancy may increase with IVF)
The other factor that I would like to put here is that I have an affinity for hot baths and am wondering if this could be playing a factor in this. I have read both that it absolutely can and I have read the opposite stating that it's an old wives tale.
I stopped the baths a few days before Lent started and I know its about a 72 day cycle time for sperm regeneration.
I would love to hear other peoples experience and/or what you all have done as next steps.
My wife and I just recently started to try for our first.
Her and I are both planners and a little OCD. We don't like surprises and really try to get a nice baseline understanding of things.
With that said, I sort of had a gut feeling that something may be off with me. I purchased the at home SpermCheck and the results came back abnormal. Afterwards, I made an appointment with a local lab to have a SA done and here are the results below, my concerns are the count, morphology and viscosity:
Concentration
Volume: 4.30 mL
Concentration: 2.48 million/mL
Total Sperm Count 10.66 million
Motility
Progressive: 36%
Non-Progressive: 14%
Immotle: 50%
Total Motility (Progressive+Non-Progressive): 50%
Total Progressive Motile Sperm: 3.84 million
Sperm Morphology
Normal: 3%
Head/Structural Defects: 95%
Acrosomal Defects: 1%
Neck/Midpiece Defects: 1%
Tail Defects: 1%
Total Normal Sperm: 0.32 million
Semen Factors
Compete Sample: Complete
Abstinence: 3 days
Liquefaction: <60 minutes
Viscosity: >2
pH: 8.0
Agglutination: None
Other Cells: 0.0 million
Debris: Light
The doctor also noted:
Abnormal; very poor prognosis (Very low chance of pregnancy without medical intervention; chance of pregnancy may increase with IVF)
The other factor that I would like to put here is that I have an affinity for hot baths and am wondering if this could be playing a factor in this. I have read both that it absolutely can and I have read the opposite stating that it's an old wives tale.
I stopped the baths a few days before Lent started and I know its about a 72 day cycle time for sperm regeneration.
I would love to hear other peoples experience and/or what you all have done as next steps.
