Today is day 28 of my cycle & I can feel cramps coming on which means I’ll get my period tonight or tomorrow morning. This will mark my 14th cycle TTC =( No one in my family has ever had fertility issues, so naturally I assumed I’d be able to get pregnant without any problems. My husband has a varicocele that he’s known about for years, but his doctor said it should not “majorly impact his fertility”. So in August 2009, four months after coming off of the pill, we started TTC and we’ve been trying ever since.
My husband had a semen analysis done in May and the results were:
Sperm count: 213 million
Sperm morphology: 90%
Sperm motility: 40% (LOW)
And I think 10% was already dead by the time we got to the lab.
So… I know those are bad numbers =( In May when I had my annual gyno exam, my doctor (who is also the fertility director for the doctor’s office) said if she were in my shoes, she’d give it 14-16 months of TTC before I undergo the expensive, invasive tests. I’ve checked into the HSG she suggested and it’s going to be $2,500!!!!!! My health insurance won’t cover a penny of it. And that’s just for that one test.
Can they check into other things before they check for blocked fallopian tubes? Or is that pretty much the standard order of things? What other kinds of tests might I need to have done? As it is, we’re going to have to wait until February 2010 when we get our tax return to even start testing me =(
We’ve been eating semi-organically (at least dairy & meat) and we used Preseed this cycle with no luck. I also drink Red Raspberry Leaf tea (when I remember) and I’m going to start BBT charting this month. Any other ideas?
OOOPS. I meant to say we’ve been trying since August 2008. It’s been 14 months so obviously there is a problem somewhere.