I’m only 2dpiui and already the mind and body games have started.
The excess hormones are making my body do odd things. Apart from the bloating, which has thankfully subsided – I only look 12 weeks pregnant now – my boobs are huge (ok, they were before, but now my cup definitely spilleth over), with rather painful nipp.les, I am still as vague as anything, and I need big sleeps every night. I also have the nose of a bloodhound.
Stupid hormones. And so unfair. Because I know that the odds are not with me, but with all these “symptoms” it’s really easy to get excited and hopeful.
I have become an obsessive googler of male infertility. Stupidly, I have spent two years thinking I was the one with the problem, and when we got my partner’s diagnosis, I was eyeballs up in wedding preparations and end of year deadlines, not to mention Christmas and honeymoon, so it’s only this week I have managed to truly procrastinate at work and get in some decent time with Dr Google.
Did you know that even men with azoospermia – someone whose ejacul.ate contains no sperm – can still father children if a few are found in the testicular tissue? Today I was reading about a man who fathered twins after surgery managed to find 40 sperm. 40! I was upset with our 3.5 million.
Whilst our numbers are good – 55million where over 40 mil is considered normal, the problems are with motility (30% when 50% or more are normal) and morphology (2% normal when 15% or more is normal). We also have antisperm antibodies. However, our DNA fragmentation index was 7.36% when 0-15% is considered normal.
So if we don’t get there with iui, we may have a good chance with icsi. My partner just likes to take one thing, one treatment at time, but I need to be one step ahead and know what is going to happen if we are unsuccessful at each stage. I just like to plan!
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