Saturday, January 23, 2010

Rhyme or reason for the counts

After a stellar count on Wednesday afternoon I waited until Friday evening (54 hours) to view the next round.

Volume - ok.
Count - nada. Maybe 1% of low motile swimmers at max.

This is a major bummer of course, but what I don't get is what is physiologically cause the count to go from substantial to substandard in 2 days. Unless this is just what happens with a low dose of Clomid after only 1 month.

To test this theory further, we were wondering if the numbers game of abstinence and shooting a large volume is actually causing the swimmers to die waiting in the bull pen.

So this weekend is a marathon round of research. Minus a round of sport last night, the goal is to get as many rounds under the microscope as possible. Round 3 was early this morning and the percentage looked similar to week 1 of Clomid. Round 4 was Saturday evening 5:00 PM and some of the views were above 100.

The volume of everything but the first round was between 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons. Round 1 was about a tablespoon.


Round 1: 54 hours of abs: Nothing 1% max
Round 2: (not viewed): 4 hours of abs
Round 3: 7 hours of abs: ~25 swimmers per high powered view
Round 4: 10 hours of abs: ~100 swimmers per high powered view (max) ~25 on average.
Round 5: 24 hrs of abs: ~100 swimmers per hpv (max) ~25 ave


OK- WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON BETWEEN ROUND 1 and 4?

Note on round 5 there were lots of views with 100 plus.

things i'm curious about
  1. Is this repeatable?
  2. What will the WHO tests tell me for the abs sample and the no abs sample? (at a hundred bucks a pop, I'm only curious enough to try one.)

I'll try one at some point, but may try daily views for a few more days before burning time on abs.

On the down side, the wife's cycle started today, so no baby from this past round :-(

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