One of the best samples in over a week.
So after 48 hrs of abs the samples were horrible. The next few were bad and then started ramping again with last night not being horrible (no microscope view this morning) and one of the top 10 views yet tonight.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
More misses than hits
It's been totally hit and miss- with more misses than hits.
One clear trend is that abstinence is NOT an effective way for me to get motile samples. I have yet to get a good sample after 48 hrs of abstaining.
No winning swimmers on the last cycle. New cycle started on Sunday.
On the positive side, my microscope camera is working well. I am now capturing a 1-2 minute video of some of the better views for our next round.
I was really hoping the count would remain consistently high to avoid paying for ICSI, but I'm not convinced we can find a good urologist who can address this in the next year.
One clear trend is that abstinence is NOT an effective way for me to get motile samples. I have yet to get a good sample after 48 hrs of abstaining.
No winning swimmers on the last cycle. New cycle started on Sunday.
On the positive side, my microscope camera is working well. I am now capturing a 1-2 minute video of some of the better views for our next round.
I was really hoping the count would remain consistently high to avoid paying for ICSI, but I'm not convinced we can find a good urologist who can address this in the next year.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Not the motility we need
Although I've seen some spikes, the upward trend hasn't continued in motility.
For the past week, there has been only 1 REALLY good sample and I bet that was only 50% motility at best. The rest have been very low, with 50 swimmers per high powered view.
The doctor gave the ok to officially up the Clomid to every 5 days, so we'll see what that does.
For the past week, there has been only 1 REALLY good sample and I bet that was only 50% motility at best. The rest have been very low, with 50 swimmers per high powered view.
The doctor gave the ok to officially up the Clomid to every 5 days, so we'll see what that does.
Monday, February 8, 2010
What the heck!!!
Friday 2/5 was ovulation day (2 days earlier than expected). After about 2 weeks of upward trending views, the swim team started showing up DOA. Not only that, the salt-peter side effects of the Clomid hit me HARD this weekend. I had a hell of a time getting the job done twice during the window and I had hoped for 4x.
After our Ovulation window closed on Sunday things started going well again- it's almost as though my body did not want this to be the month for us to conceive.
The microscope view on Sunday morning was the worst I've seen since starting. Hopefully this is because all the good swimmers were on their mission already. This got me rather depressed so on Sunday night, I did another round and there was a slide where the views were between 50-100 again.
After our Ovulation window closed on Sunday things started going well again- it's almost as though my body did not want this to be the month for us to conceive.
The microscope view on Sunday morning was the worst I've seen since starting. Hopefully this is because all the good swimmers were on their mission already. This got me rather depressed so on Sunday night, I did another round and there was a slide where the views were between 50-100 again.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Random- again
So after a week of totally awesome results, it's back to random.
The last 3 tests have shown at best 25 - mildly motile swimmers per HPV.
Many views with 1-2.
Not what we were looking for heading into ovulation. Hopefully there will be an uptick.
The last 3 tests have shown at best 25 - mildly motile swimmers per HPV.
Many views with 1-2.
Not what we were looking for heading into ovulation. Hopefully there will be an uptick.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Even less random sampling
It looks like every new crop of swimmers is getting more and more plentiful.
I've started checking the microscope samples at 40x to see where the major moving fields are; there are tons of fields with hundreds (or close to a thousand) per high power view.
At this point, it is looking very optimistic that IUI is going to be viable, presuming we don't get a winner in this current round.
I've started checking the microscope samples at 40x to see where the major moving fields are; there are tons of fields with hundreds (or close to a thousand) per high power view.
At this point, it is looking very optimistic that IUI is going to be viable, presuming we don't get a winner in this current round.
clomid- blood test 2
I'm 6'0 and 220 lbs.
Before clomid:
Free testosterone: 9 and the range is 5-40.
Total testosterone: 314 and the range is 332-896
30 days of clomid (50 mg every 5-7 days)
Free testosterone: 23.2
Total testosterone: 729
Before clomid:
Free testosterone: 9 and the range is 5-40.
Total testosterone: 314 and the range is 332-896
30 days of clomid (50 mg every 5-7 days)
Free testosterone: 23.2
Total testosterone: 729
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