I was thinking their SA's seemed very similar!!!! Actually a lot of our situation seems similar....How long were you TTC when you got pregnant? I worry sometimes that because of his Morph we miscarried (not blaming him in anyway, I also worry I have crappy ovulation/eggs). I was 8 wks when I miscarried, but was only measuring about 6W4D.
That's curious that yours referred you to a FS but mine said everything is A-ok....sometimes I think she's too laid back. She says my LP is fine...idk really any of my worries I bring up to her she dismisses. She was really good though about letting me take the next step with clomid.
As for yours, that's really discouraging that she thinks it's normal to have such long/irregular cycles. I suppose they're the Dr. though.....I'd think they'd want to try a cheaper route (clomid) before they put you straight to a FS. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. It would be great to find something out, as long as it's treatable. At least you have a direction then, and a plan of action! Let me know how it goes!
I know! It seems we are in very similar situations in many ways! I will definetely be paying extra attention to your TTC journey as the circumstances seem fairly similar although you seem to be better off than me cycle wise lol. Hopefully, I can get to your stage of regularity with clomid. I know what you mean about worrying doctors are lax. My doctor wouldnt refer us to an FS or do further testing on me or give me clomid which lead my fiancee to really question her and she shut him down telling him to "take me to hawaii" and stop rushing, "we're young and have a wedding coming up" and the best, "told him he must be an engineer because he expected everything to go like clockwork and my body doesnt work like that". I think he was right though about pushing her for treating me. I hope clomid works out for you! When can you test?
Also, your husbands SA sheet must have said greater or equal to 4 is normal for your doctor to dismiss it. my fiancee's form said >5% is normal and he got 4% lol so at the bottom it said "low morphology, may need IVF with ICSIS if consistently below 4%". Funny how 1% more would have meant a normal result and natural conception would be possible, but his 1% lower meant we need ICSI, not even IUI... Now that doesn't make much sense because his morph was 4, not lower. And WHO guidelines reccomend 4, not 5 as the cut off. I figure this clinic that did his SA must use the 10% percentile of fertile men as the cut-off rather than the 5% percentile that many others use. The first time my fiancee went to his family doctor to get the results, I was in the midst of miscarrying so he thought everything would be fine. Man, the morph was a nasty shock! especially seeing 4%. Of course he had no idea 15% was the norm at the time so he thought that was crazy bad when really it isn't as bad as it looks. His doctor didn't know about the new Kruger though and I think if he saw anything below 50%, we would have been referred lol. My fiancee tried to explain it to him, but doctors don't like being told stuff so he was shut down pretty quick and just referred him.
We were TTC about 11 months when I got pregnant so took us a while longer. That being said, I probably only had 6-8 cycles in that time. Also, there was no charting or known ovulation times. We just did it every day, or every other day, 3-4 times each day and hoped for the best! I wish the old-fashioned way would just work for us
. I hate this technical stuff.
Oh in regards to worrying about whether your MC was from morphology, I am fairly convinced that doesn't affect it, but that DNA fragmentation of sperm does which is a seperate test that costs about $400 and isn't done on a SA. The degree of fragmentation can affect miscarriage rates. 0-15% is normal 15-30% is abnormal, but chance of conception and live birth still possible and over 30% makes even conception impossible. So you know at least your not over 30%. I have read many studies on DNA fragmentation and although it is higher in people with lower morph, it is much higher when 2 or 3 semen parameters are abnormal and not just one. I wouldn't worry to much about it.
Thanks for the good luck and good thoughts!