Our Assisted TTC Diary - Male perspective *UPDATED*

[Bumbleby]

Thank you so much for posting my dh has pretty much the same problem and it helps to hear from a mans point of view! I know he was pretty devastated when we found out. Very good luck to you & your wife!

 

[lynseyology]

Hello Everyone,

Its been a while since I've updated on our journey here. I dont think I've read another 'mans' post on here, its all women! So, I thought it was important to keep posting and giving a male perspective.

Its been an emotional time the past few weeks. We started the injections which, if im honest, were hard at times - not to administer but to see my wife yelping and bruising up awful. It doesnt sound much, little injections but when you are having two a day after a while there were sore bits everywhere!

I've learnt a lot about IVF, which is the most important thing to note here. Our cycle was stopped this Saturday 30th January 2010 because my wifes eggs didnt respond well to the stimulating drugs. It hurt, mostly to see how upset my wife was and then followed by a bitterness. Im not a bitter person or someone that sulks! but, I just looked at us from a distance, were lovely people against some boggers I can think of and yet these bad things happen. Thats life I guess. It didnt last long, a day maybe.

We are so very lucky in so many ways, the fertlity problems we have are all with me see (low motility but, wife has high follicle count of 22 per side) and we are also quite young (im 32, my wife 30). Because of this we always thought (naively!) that IVF would be smooth. I had read about IVF and that it was an 'emotional roller coaster' and could never see what was meant by this.

We know now why people have described the treatment in this way and are stronger for it.

My wife was on the long protocol and now will be starting the 'short' protocol on the next period which is in 1 or 2 months time. To be honest I wish it was tomorrrow! For us at least, its all this waiting that make things such an emotional up and down ride.

Best wishes to you all on IVF, I will post next when our next cycle starts.

 

[Leila Fae]

Hi Stu, thanks for the updates and please do keep posting. DH and I are following your progress. We're just about to go back to the GP to ask for another SA to see if his morphology has improved since the last one and then to assess our options. Having an idea of what to expect really helps.

DH doesn't usually read this forum but he's happy to read this thread with me!

Good luck to you both.