[joanna26]

DH and I both had fertility appts this morning: me with my RE for a CD11 u/s to see if I was ready to trigger for the IUI this cycle and him as a follow up on his 3rd SA with the MIF specialist. Good news: I responded well to the clomid and have three follies over 20 and one more that should reach 20 before we trigger. Bad news: clomid thinned my lining on my very first cycle of taking the lowest dose, so I am taking estrogen vaginally for a couple of days to try to improve it. I was feeling pretty good about all of this until I talked to DH about his appt.

Basically his really horrible SA results last time were not a fluke. He has 0 normal morphology and his doctor pretty much flat-out said we were wasting our time trying an IUI right now. We have two options: he can start hormone therapy and have surgery to have a variocele repaired in hopes that the combination improves his morphology or we can do ICSI-IVF. The doctor told him there was basically a 50% chance that the drugs/surgery makes any material difference in his morphology (his odds are lower than most due to some other factors) and it will be 3-6 months before we will know one way or the other.

sorry this is so long. I just needed to get it out

[Lindz253]

I am so sorry - that is a lot to take in. I really hope the hormone therapy helps and please vent any time. HUGS

[LindseyE117]

I seriously hate fertility problems and I really wish that no one had to deal with them. If I were you, I would try the hormone therapy and the surgery before I attempted IVF with ICSI. My husband and I just did that back in July and it is a lot to take in. Plus it did not work for us and we were out thousands of dollars for nothing. Hopefully everything works out though and you get a beautiful baby out of all this hard work.

[ninja_mommy]

I'm sorry you got bad news

[TnPhotoMama81]

I am sorry you got bad news and that you have to wait so long to see if something else will work!

[L-SBB]

i'm sorry it was bad news...what are you thinking of doing? i don't know anything about fertility treatments but i hope whichever path you end up choosing it brings you quickly to a BFP!

[doremi]

I'm so sorry you got bad news where your DH is concerned! I agree with the pp who said to try the hormone therapy and surgery option first. The other procedure is SO tough on your body from what I've heard. Good luck!

[joanna26]

Thanks ladies. We will try the meds/surgery first. It only makes since since ICSI will cost $15K. But he will not be able to have the surgery until late December, so we will not really know where we are until April-June. I don't know how I am going to stay sane between now and then. I don't know how I am going to stay sane between now and then.