Latest pretesting results and Femara cycle
Just had my followup with my RE. Pretesting results from last month are the following, we're still waiting for the AMH anyday now.
Baseline:
AFC = 19 but he said ovaries were 'smaller than ideal'
FSH 5.2
LH 4.1
E2 121pmol/l (equal to 32.93 pg/ml)
TSH 1.70miU
prolactin 7.4
Testosterone 1.0
Results from the Femara cycle:
CD14 - 29mm leading follicle
CD24 (10dpo) - P4=60
So in other words, excellent ovulatory cycle. Unfortunately, our issue seems to be MF. The SA Kruger analysis came back as:
Count = 70 million/ml
Motility = 79%
Morphology = 4% strict Kruger
Our RE referred to this as 'isolated teratospermia' and it seems to be our issue. Explains why we've always been subfertile too. The question is, how to proceed. We've decided to do a few more Femara cycles, and we're likely looking at IVF again around November. The logistics of IVF with DH posted away to work is something I don't even want to think about right now!!
Basically, the problem isn't me, it's hubby. And I seem to have okay egg reserve numbers so far (but awaiting AMH). Who knows how long that'll last, but I've seen how much time IVF can chew up so I don't want to go IVF again unless we're really sure we can't get there by ourselves. So I'm feeling pretty much like I want another 5 Femara cycles or so before I'm ready to move on. But it's such a logistical nightmare to try to cycle with having to cycle long distance (for the GD) and DH away....ugh...... OTOH who knows, if my AMH comes back horrible then maybe it's the end of the line for IVF for us.