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       #Post#: 5439--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: NINJA Date: October 18, 2019, 11:44 am
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       [quote author=Restless link=topic=18.msg5401#msg5401
       date=1571342324]
       Very best of luck in what you's are going through together
       ninja,Emotional rollercoaster to say the least.
       The wife and I have been through 3 rounds of ivf for different
       reasons than yourself.
       first time never worked,2nd time did (she's nearly 5) had to pay
       for 3rd round nearly £5000 (she's 6 month) the wife was having
       acupuncture weekly as well she got told it might help with
       implantation.
       Followed this thread from the off and I'll continue to do
       so,best of luck to you both once again 👍🏻
       [/quote]
       yeah think this has cost us around £7k so far, £2k of that being
       his and hers drugs and my many sperm counts lol
       so you've done this 3 times and it's worked all 3 times? that's
       fantastic
       chris
       #Post#: 5447--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: Restless Date: October 18, 2019, 1:43 pm
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       Expensive pal but worth it once you get there.
       No it's worked 2 out of 3 times mate first attempt never worked.
       This time around 5 embryos made it to 5 day blastocyst so they
       put one back (which resulted in the baby we have now)
       And 3 were neat enough grade A so we have them frozen so going
       to be trying again next year.
       Extremely fortunate it's gone so well for us I know how much of
       a struggle it is going through it.
       #Post#: 5749--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: NINJA Date: November 1, 2019, 9:15 pm
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       out of 16 fertilised eggs we ended up with 9 blastocysts but
       only 4 of those made it to the embryo stage for freezing.
       now natalie is on different drugs to get her body ready for
       implantation and pregnancy which takes longer than i had than i
       had thought as we're only going in this week to get that
       scheduled.
       so i'm pretty much out of the equation now tbh, it's all now
       just down to natalie.
       i'm both very excited and absolutely f0cking terrified
       chris
       #Post#: 5753--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: dirtyvest Date: November 2, 2019, 8:48 am
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       Really wishing you both the best.
       #Post#: 5784--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: Restless Date: November 3, 2019, 2:26 pm
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       Brilliant 👍🏻best of luck once again
       #Post#: 7478--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: NINJA Date: January 7, 2020, 1:57 pm
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       ok folks sorry about the delay in updating the post. tomorrow we
       will be 9 weeks pregnant. had a scan on the 30th December which
       confirmed there's defo a baby in there, just the one thank fo*k
       tho. not told anyone at all and won't be doing so until end of
       January at 12 weeks in.
       one minor point is that taking 1500iu of hcg eod has fucked my
       natural test levels and my doc is now monitoring me monthly
       until they come back up to normal so i can't even jump on a
       blo0dy cycle to feel better.
       happy new year guys
       Chris
       #Post#: 7495--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: dirtyvest Date: January 7, 2020, 3:05 pm
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       It make me happy that on my birthday you were finding out that
       you have a baby on the way
       #Post#: 7497--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: Bookerman Date: January 7, 2020, 6:02 pm
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       [quote author=NINJA link=topic=18.msg7478#msg7478
       date=1578427063]
       ok folks sorry about the delay in updating the post. tomorrow we
       will be 9 weeks pregnant. had a scan on the 30th December which
       confirmed there's defo a baby in there, just the one thank fo*k
       tho. not told anyone at all and won't be doing so until end of
       January at 12 weeks in.
       one minor point is that taking 1500iu of hcg eod has **** my
       natural test levels and my doc is now monitoring me monthly
       until they come back up to normal so i can't even jump on a
       blo0dy cycle to feel better.
       happy new year guys
       Chris
       [/quote]
       What do u mean with your test levels mate? Its knackered your
       natural test level or what?
       Big congrats btw
       #Post#: 7499--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: Restless Date: January 8, 2020, 6:22 am
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       😁 Happy days,congratulations to you and the missus
       🤙🏻
       #Post#: 7549--------------------------------------------------
       Re: FIRST EVER TOPIC - LOW SPERM COUNT, IVF, ICSI
       By: NINJA Date: January 9, 2020, 6:46 pm
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       [quote author=Bookerman link=topic=18.msg7497#msg7497
       date=1578441752]
       What do u mean with your test levels mate? Its knackered your
       natural test level or what?
       Big congrats btw
       [/quote]
       when i stopped the 1500iu hcg/75iu hmg protocol i got my bloods
       tested and my natural test level was 20% of what it should have
       been. my doctor suggested that perhaps the high levels of hcg or
       possibly the hmg had somehow rebounded and shut down my
       testosterone production or suppressed it. prior to taking the
       hcg/hmg I had my test levels checked as part of the infertility
       checks and it was fine. I had been doing hcg at i think 250iu
       eod for a couple of months prior to this but then changed to the
       higher dose  hcg/hmg and had been on it right up until the first
       blood test which would have been around 4 months or so.
       my initial testosterone reading was as i said 20% of normal, my
       white blood cell count was also very low and my iron levels were
       thru the roof - i have a family history of hemochromatosis so
       this is not a big surprise. a couple of weeks ago i had a second
       load of tests and apparently my testosterone and white blood
       cell count are going in the right direction but still low. i
       have 2 weeks before i am tested again.
       i've pretty much no idea what's happening tbh as i thought hcg
       was used to increase your testosterone production? certainly my
       sperm count went from absolutely zero (due i think to M2T) up to
       well above normal in the months i was taking the hcg/hmg, so it
       was a bit of a surprise to find that my testosterone level was
       well below normal.
       hopefully i'll get a good result with the next blood test, i
       could understand if i'd been taking gear but i'm not.
       the important thing is that regardless of what this did to my
       test levels, we managed to conceive after years of trying.
       eventually my test levels will normalise and if not i'll just
       start TRT as i'm not going to continue feeling sh!tty for much
       longer before i lose patience and just take some test myself lol
       Chris
       chris
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