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[quote=Anonymous]My DH had high count but worse motility and same morphology as yours. The motility and count seem to be the important factors. We actually did the 6 IUI cycles (covered by insurance) before moving to IVF with ICSI (not covered; success on first cycle).

I don't regret the IUIs at all. I started the whole process very skeeved out by needles and medical procedures generally. IUI helped me ease into things and by the time we did IVF, I didn't feel overwhelmed at all.

Have your DH see a urologist just to cover your bases. During the final IUI months, my DH saw a urologist and was diagnosed with two varicoceles. He had the surgery and a few months after that, his sperm parameters were all excellent. However, by this point, I was 37 and starting to really worry about my age and possible declining egg quality. We'd been saving money this whole time with IVF as a possibility, so we decided to go for it instead of continuing to hope for nature to come through. Maybe now that his sperm issues are gone, we will be able to conceive #2 naturally. But if not, we have 3 frozen embryos, PGS-tested and waiting. [/quote]

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