Hi everyone!
This is my first post and I'm hoping for some guidance. Long story short, my DH was diagnosed with testicular cancer a few months ago and banked some sperm prior to having chemo. We had only been TTC for two months when he was diagnosed and we have no other children (never pregnant). Now that he has finished treatment and is well we are ready to move on with TTC. We have an appointment with an RE in a couple weeks, but until then we are trying to decipher his analysis on our own. When he banked there was no consultation or any explanation of the results. Everything was a crazy whirlwind with his appointments, surgery, chemo, etc so we weren't that concerned with the SA at that point.
I have looked at probably 100 posts regarding sperm counts, but some people seem to refer to their Total Motile number versus others who quote their post thaw count and motility figures individually. I guess I am just wondering which numbers REs typically go by to determine whether IUI is the appropriate route or whether you should go right to IVF.
We felt like my DH's numbers were pretty good individually, however the Total Motile doesn't seem that great and some posts I've seen state that doctors want 10mil for this number. I know it is somewhat dependent on your doctor, but does your RE seem to depend on the count itself moreso than Total Motile or no?
He was only able to bank twice before starting his treatment, but we got 9 vials so I'm hoping that is considered decent. Here are his results:
1st sample:
Initial count 34.3, post thaw 20.0
Motility initial 96.1, post thaw 83.3
Progression 3+, post thaw 3+
Total motile 49.4. post thaw 8.33
2nd sample
Initial count 66.3, post thaw 29.3
Motility initial 86.9, post thaw 71.6
Progression 3+, post thaw 3+
Total motile 201.7, post thaw 6.3
The count and motility seems good to me in both instances, but neither has 10mil for Total Motile so we aren't really sure if these are good numbers after all. Most oncologists don't recommend natural pregnancy until 2 years post treatment, so we will have to go right to assisted at this point (we both just turned 30 and don't want to wait 2 years). I am hoping that his numbers would be good enough to try an IUI first, but I don't want to "waste" it since we only have those 9 vials to work with.
This is my first post and I'm hoping for some guidance. Long story short, my DH was diagnosed with testicular cancer a few months ago and banked some sperm prior to having chemo. We had only been TTC for two months when he was diagnosed and we have no other children (never pregnant). Now that he has finished treatment and is well we are ready to move on with TTC. We have an appointment with an RE in a couple weeks, but until then we are trying to decipher his analysis on our own. When he banked there was no consultation or any explanation of the results. Everything was a crazy whirlwind with his appointments, surgery, chemo, etc so we weren't that concerned with the SA at that point.
I have looked at probably 100 posts regarding sperm counts, but some people seem to refer to their Total Motile number versus others who quote their post thaw count and motility figures individually. I guess I am just wondering which numbers REs typically go by to determine whether IUI is the appropriate route or whether you should go right to IVF.
We felt like my DH's numbers were pretty good individually, however the Total Motile doesn't seem that great and some posts I've seen state that doctors want 10mil for this number. I know it is somewhat dependent on your doctor, but does your RE seem to depend on the count itself moreso than Total Motile or no?
He was only able to bank twice before starting his treatment, but we got 9 vials so I'm hoping that is considered decent. Here are his results:
1st sample:
Initial count 34.3, post thaw 20.0
Motility initial 96.1, post thaw 83.3
Progression 3+, post thaw 3+
Total motile 49.4. post thaw 8.33
2nd sample
Initial count 66.3, post thaw 29.3
Motility initial 86.9, post thaw 71.6
Progression 3+, post thaw 3+
Total motile 201.7, post thaw 6.3
The count and motility seems good to me in both instances, but neither has 10mil for Total Motile so we aren't really sure if these are good numbers after all. Most oncologists don't recommend natural pregnancy until 2 years post treatment, so we will have to go right to assisted at this point (we both just turned 30 and don't want to wait 2 years). I am hoping that his numbers would be good enough to try an IUI first, but I don't want to "waste" it since we only have those 9 vials to work with.
It was more than 10mil but less than 20 but they were very slow moving so we were advised to do IVF with ICSI.
