We All Have Bad Sperm Days...Right!?!

Today was our follow-up after the HSG and chromosomal testing.  Good news...everything still looks good!!! We thought that was very cool.

We see the fabulous doctors at IVF Michigan.  There are several locations and we go to the Flint one.  Sometimes we go to the one in Rochester for appointments and all IUI's and IVF's are also done in Rochester.  Our doctors are Dr. Abuzeid and Dr. Ashraf.  They are both pretty cool and we used to see them about equally.  Dr. Abuzeid has taken a particular "interest in our case," so now we see him more. 

Today, we came up with a plan with Dr. Abuzeid.  We have decided to take it easy for a while and be less aggressive (this is really what I want).  In doing this, there will be more tests and if those go well, a period of trying "naturally."  So, this is the protocol...

Randy will have another sperm analysis.  He has had a few, but we are doing a repeat because his sperm change each time.  First off, sperm is more than just a number.  There are a lot of other components they are looking for.  Randy has always had a crazy high number of sperm...which makes him feel like master of the universe.  Every single time they review his sperm count, I can see Randy sit back in his chair, prepare his studly grin, pull out his cigar and get ready to gloat.  Then the doctor reads the number and they give each other high-fives.  Just kidding, but his sperm count is always around 140 million whereas the average is like 60 million...he loves this.  Problem though, his first analysis showed that his semen is viscous, or thick, making it very difficult to reach an egg.  There is no way to "thin" it out...Randy asked today.  They want the viscosity to be between 0 and 1...Randy's was 4.  Very, very viscous.  His second sperm analysis showed the viscosity at 0, but his morphology was 2%.  This means only 2% of those 140 million sperm are normal.  The rest had two heads, no tails, two tails, crazy weird Homer Simpson sperm.  I asked if I would have conjoined twins if a two headed sperm fertilized one of my eggs.  They said it wouldn't happen.  I felt better.  The nurse explained to us that another sperm analysis would give us a picture of what his sperm are doing right now.  They want to do a dry sperm analysis, not a wet one.  I asked them what they meant about this because Randy only knows how to do it one way.  They explained something medical about coagulation and how they test it and it had nothing to with how Randy produces his sample.  About the above issues, she said, "We all have bad sperm days."  We laughed and Randy is thrilled to doing this test again. 

For me, we are going to be doing a monitored cycle of me all natural (which means no meds)!!!  I will go in for blood work on cycle day 3, next month.  We are going to do ultrasounds and blood work throughout to see if I ovulate and how everything looks.  If everything looks good for me and Randy's analysis, we will try naturally for 3 months.  If Randy's sperm turns out to be viscous or really low morphology or if I am not ovulating, we will have to do IUI with injectibles. 

So, another month of waiting.  Surprisingly, I am fine with it.  :)