Spouses with low sperm count.

I just done a quick tally. 18 weeks would put you at right before Christmas (not sure if you celebrate that holiday but if you do...) that would make the time pass quicker with less time to think about it because with the Christmas planning everything would pass like a whirlwind! Or I would think it would. Lol
 
Would love to join, though I dont have extensive SA results, just the base results from my old OB. I do have a question though.. have anyone heard of/tried the MFS from Coast Science?

SA in 2009:

Volume: 0.2 ML
Count: 16 mill/ML
Motility: 65%

The 16 mill is low but I would be okay with it if it werent for the volume, that put him at about 3.5 million.
 
HappyBunny,

The doctor didn't tell me about having regular periods and still may not be ovulating. Actually, I've read that in some of my on-line research. My RE seems satisfied as long as I'm having regular periods. This makes me wonder if I should relax and trust in my RE's instincts and stop reading and believing everything on the internet. <smile>
 
Doodles999,

Hello! You are more than likely exactly right. I'm a constant worrier and guess I expect the worse too much. Thank you for the helpful advice.
 
Ladies,

My husband had an appointment on July 6th for a dental cleaning. We set that up at my last cleaning in April. At the time, we couldn't remember the first day of his school's summer quarter. :amartass: He and I just knew it was early July. Naturally, when we checked, the date he started back to school was July 6th. Later, I canceled his appointment and said we would call back later to reschedule.

My DH is good about brushing his teeth but hadn't had a dental appointment in a few years. :brush: We are both off this week - me from work, him from school. On Monday, we get a phone call from our dentist asking if hubby wanted to come in Tuesday to get his cleaning. We went in Tuesday and after he was done, he called me to the check out window. He was discouraged. Come to find out he did have two cavities but, worse, he had a tooth that was partially gone because of a cavity gone too far.

My hubby never told me he had pain from that area and that later part of the tooth had broken off. This must have been going on for a long time.

Blessedly, he was able to get in the next day to get the tooth pulled. It wasn't very pleasant at all because the dentist had a difficult time finding a part to grasp onto. :-({|=

Now, he's healing and slowly feeling a little better each hour. We still need to get the other two cavities filled when he's all healed.

I wonder though, if this tooth could have been affecting his count any? They say even a cold can cause a man's count to be lowered. Maybe now that this tooth is out and he heals, his count, motility, and morphology may be greatly improved. :spermy:

Hope I'm not grasping at straws. What do you all think?
 
Georgia I do not know for sure but my own thinking is that maybe it could. Especially of there was an infection. But these are my own thoughs because I really don't know. Fingers crossed that was causeing a problem and that is can be fixed.
 
thanks for replying SweetJennie, im so sorry about your loss, i cant imagine how you must be feeling, i hope you have a happy and healthy pregnancy soon....

I suspect i have PCOS also as my cycles range anything from 31 to as long as 75 days, i had a second set of bloods taken earlier in the week so will soon know for sure! sometimes i really feel like screaming and throwing a hissy lol, it just doesnt seem fair if you know what i mean?! I guess i always naively assumed no birth control = pregnant, makes me wish we'd never bloody bothered all these years!
 
Sweetjennie, thanks for your reply, hopefully you are right! We have lots of form filling and a few in between appts so hopefully it will fly by!

Georgia - i deffo think if there was any infection this could affect the count.

jen never heard of mfs im afraid
 
Hellsb I know exactly what you mean! I wasted hundreds of dollars in birth control! How silly of me. Lol
 
Hi ladies, I've got my call to begin ICSI this month, I start down regging on the 28th of august. I am very excited. If all goes according to plan and it works I should get a positive pg test around the 8th of oct with a due date around june 15 next year. If anyone pops into my journal please don't mention this I haven't posted about it yet.

Kazza we had to wait three months to do treatment but it was worth it! Hang tough.
 
That's great Kelly! I bet you are super excited! I hope to see that positive test in October.

Kazza I know it seems as a long time but you will see it will go by fast.

AFM, I'm waiting for the :witch: to show up at the end of the month and we will try IUI again hopefully at the end of September or early October. We are doing another SA the first week of Sept and we hope we have a better count than July.

:dust: :dust: to all of us!
 
Kelly that's great news please keep us informed!! Kelly would you mind updating me on what happens at each stage so I get ab understanding of how it works! Xxx

I so hope it flys past and we get approved for funding
 
Sure, first step is being offered treatment so: CHECK
Second step is signing all the paper and picking up meds: On monday for me
Third step is down regging (meds put your body in a temporary state of menopause so that the docs can control your cycle: Aug 28 I start taking my meds
Then I have an u/s and blood work on sept 10 and if all is "quiet" I start my stim meds that day. I do stimms with u/s and bloodwork every 2nd day until the 21 if all is good I get my trigger shot of HCG that day and then egg collection will be sept 23 with embryo transfer on the 26 or 28 of spetember. All of these days are subject to change by a few depending on how I respond to the medications.

Traskey have you started your meds yet?
 
Oh thats brilliant news Kelly

exciting times ahead, I pray treatment is successful bring on the BFP :)
xxx
 
Hi ladies, I've got my call to begin ICSI this month, I start down regging on the 28th of august. I am very excited. If all goes according to plan and it works I should get a positive pg test around the 8th of oct with a due date around june 15 next year. If anyone pops into my journal please don't mention this I haven't posted about it yet.

Kazza we had to wait three months to do treatment but it was worth it! Hang tough.

https://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh126/izzybee22/good-luck-shamrock-1.gif
 
Sure, first step is being offered treatment so: CHECK
Second step is signing all the paper and picking up meds: On monday for me
Third step is down regging (meds put your body in a temporary state of menopause so that the docs can control your cycle: Aug 28 I start taking my meds
Then I have an u/s and blood work on sept 10 and if all is "quiet" I start my stim meds that day. I do stimms with u/s and bloodwork every 2nd day until the 21 if all is good I get my trigger shot of HCG that day and then egg collection will be sept 23 with embryo transfer on the 26 or 28 of spetember. All of these days are subject to change by a few depending on how I respond to the medications.

Traskey have you started your meds yet?

I start tomorrow so we will be cycle buddies :wohoo: I'm taking Synarel (Nafarelin) not Buserelin as thought.

I down reg a little longer than you by the looks of it, stimming is the 14 Sept, and egg collection due around the 26th.

Good luck honey, hope you get your bfp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:happydance::thumbup::baby::cloud9:
 
Yay an icsi buddy!!!!! Yeah our d Reg is two weeks! I'll be cheering you on! I still haven't mentioned anything to my journal stalkers yet and don't think I will till I start stimming or later maybe i don't want to say anything cause i feel that some of them will be more negative or cautious about it and I want to focus on the positive side of things so I think I'll just keep you ladies informed for now.
 
I;m sure a chinese herbalist would say yes it would affect it. The body was not in balance due to the problems with the tooth. Which makes me ask does anyone here know much about chinese medcine? I'm thinking of going to someone.

Ladies,

My husband had an appointment on July 6th for a dental cleaning. We set that up at my last cleaning in April. At the time, we couldn't remember the first day of his school's summer quarter. :amartass: He and I just knew it was early July. Naturally, when we checked, the date he started back to school was July 6th. Later, I canceled his appointment and said we would call back later to reschedule.

My DH is good about brushing his teeth but hadn't had a dental appointment in a few years. :brush: We are both off this week - me from work, him from school. On Monday, we get a phone call from our dentist asking if hubby wanted to come in Tuesday to get his cleaning. We went in Tuesday and after he was done, he called me to the check out window. He was discouraged. Come to find out he did have two cavities but, worse, he had a tooth that was partially gone because of a cavity gone too far.

My hubby never told me he had pain from that area and that later part of the tooth had broken off. This must have been going on for a long time.

Blessedly, he was able to get in the next day to get the tooth pulled. It wasn't very pleasant at all because the dentist had a difficult time finding a part to grasp onto. :-({|=

Now, he's healing and slowly feeling a little better each hour. We still need to get the other two cavities filled when he's all healed.

I wonder though, if this tooth could have been affecting his count any? They say even a cold can cause a man's count to be lowered. Maybe now that this tooth is out and he heals, his count, motility, and morphology may be greatly improved. :spermy:

Hope I'm not grasping at straws. What do you all think?
 

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