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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Bad news, good news

I got an email from the nurse coordinator at the clinic we were seen at.  It was very insensitive, said his hormones were normal, sperm count too low for IUI, we should make an appt for IVF.  Even though we've said over and over again no more IVF. I then asked for the detailed results.  They were crazy!   The highest DH's sperm count has ever been was 6 million/ml, and that is on fertile aid.  Usually 4-5 million/mil wih like 10-15% motility.

This sample showed 11 million/ml!!  Normal viscosity, normal volume (2ml), motility 30%, morphology 1%.   So obviously not normal but more than twice as good as usual!  Ans this is after decidedly unhealthy living - no vitamins, started on an antidepressant, drinking more than normal, and occasional cigarettes.  All I can attribute to the increase is perhaps DH was vitamin D deficient?  He used to be so pale and got almost no sun in the Midwest.  Here he has a slight tan and gets much more sun.

His WBC was high in the semen sample...normal is less than 1 million, he had 3 million.  I've emailed the dr asking if he needs antibiotics but haven't heard back.

His testosterone was normal, but in the lower levels.  According to this dr he wouldn't benefit from clomid.  Oh well,  I wasn't sure I was comfortable with that anyway.

So I guess this leaves us with get DH some vitamins and cross our fingers.  Most likely never going to happen, but at least we looked into it!