Results of Semen Analysis

[tinkerbellsie]

Hi please excuse typing as on phone.

We've got hubby's results back (we paid privately) but can't get to doctors to discuss until next Friday, so I'd appreciate some I put before then.

Volume was ok at 2 (>2),
concentration 48 (>20),
total count 96 mil (>40 mil),
motility 60% (>50%)
normal forms (morphology) 3% (>15%)
mean normal sperm conc 0.864 (>1.5)
so all ok or very good until morphology.. And male fertility potential is rated at suboptimal (-1) so just below OK. (because of the morphology)

I just wondered really what the next steps may be.. We have been trying just over a year and I have just had a scan that suggests I have PCOS. We live in the UK.

Would love to see other peoples results and experiences.

Thanks in advance
Xxx

 

[whlisa19]

Hi please excuse typing as on phone.

We've got hubby's results back (we paid privately) but can't get to doctors to discuss until next Friday, so I'd appreciate some I put before then.

Volume was ok at 2 (>2),
concentration 48 (>20),
total count 96 mil (>40 mil),
motility 60% (>50%)
normal forms (morphology) 3% (>15%)
mean normal sperm conc 0.864 (>1.5)
so all ok or very good until morphology.. And male fertility potential is rated at suboptimal (-1) so just below OK. (because of the morphology)

I just wondered really what the next steps may be.. We have been trying just over a year and I have just had a scan that suggests I have PCOS. We live in the UK.

Would love to see other peoples results and experiences.

Thanks in advance
Xxx

My hubby got his morphology improved with supplements. He couldn't get his counts up though

I don't know what he took but can ask him if you want to try that?

 

[tinkerbellsie]

Yes please that would be brilliant, thank you x

 

[whlisa19]

Yes please that would be brilliant, thank you x

OK I got the list from my husband. It's very long and I remember him taking so many pills each day, while we were TTC with his He is an engineer so he really likes research and tackling problems, but he said to me that for most guys it would probably be too much since the idea of taking a handful of pills twice a day is going seem crazy.

And he didn't say, but since he is also almost 50 then a younger man isn't going to be in the same health position. Like we learned from the urologist that current research for cialis is that is helps older men with optimizing the prostate. So my hubby took the daily kind and we got both the benefit of a lot of intercourse around my ovulation and also huge ejaculations. Maybe it was all the supps too, or that we did prostate moves and stuff but I really don't know?? Like I said, he likes to do a lot of research so I followed his plan on optimizing his ejaculations.

He had low sperm counts and everything so it may be overkill since your husband has good numbers except for that one figure. My husband, being older, and the engineer type, took his project seriously And also he was not wanting to use a donor so was super motivated that way.

His list:
New Chapter multivitamin (Organic Men 40+) Qam
Solgar multi-vitamin with chelated minerals Qpm
New Chapter Zinc QD
New Chapter E+selenium QD
Jarrow lyco-sorb BID
Jarrow ubiquinol 200mg BID
Tattva’s organic mucuna 1 capsule BID
Tattva’s organic ashwagandha 1000mg BID
Jarrow acetyl l-carnitine 1000mg BID
Jarrow l-carnitine 2000mg BID
Jarrow arginine+ornithine (500mg/250mg) 2 capsules BID
Jarrow n-a-c sustain 600mg BID (without food, ok with a glass of juice)
panax ginseng tea (oh, he stopped this after showing his list to the Fertility Doctor because they said current research showed ginseng might be harmful to sperms)
carlson fish oil 1tsp Qam

Doctor told him he was drinking too much coffee (he works long hours so likes 4 cups a day) so he switched to organic dong quai tea, and green tea, 2 cups a day usually but more if he was tired, since it is a bonus for metabolism and sperms.

He made a breakfast drink each morning of whey powder 1 scoop, maca 1tsp, and ribose 1tsp. We have a vitamix so he would blend it for smoothies and said it tasted really good.

So it's a crazy list, and if anyone asked him about it, he would usually just recommend something like the brand called FertileAid, since it's so much easier to manage. It didn't help us so we ended up going the with a NI donor but I am sure you will have great luck

 

[whlisa19]

oh and i forgot to say
before and after
volume 1.8 and then 8.2
concentration 3 and then 8
% motile 14 and then 71
morph 1 and then 32

didn't have viscosity at first lab but new clinic measured it and it was high, which i guess is bad. maybe it was that way before because it looked the same to me but i dunno??