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[quote=Anonymous]I thought I'd introduce myself instead of always being a "PP" or "Anonymous"!  I gets hard to keep track if I've posted :)

I'm 31 (32 in March) and my husbadn is 27.  We haven't been TTC long at all - 2 months seriously, 4 months in total.  My husband was born 6 weeks premature and had undescended testes, which were surgically corrected as a toddler. Because of this, he knew he had a 30% or so chance of fertility problems, so we decided to get him checked out before we really started being invested in TTCing.

Turns out, I have a smart husband - he currently has a low count and very low morphology.

We went to GW and met with Dr. Gindoff who, I do believe has a personality that you have to gel with.  He is actually a really funny guy, so if you get over the personality clash you might have early on, he's decent. He told us that we have less than 1 in 100 chance of getting pregnant naturally and we really need to move on to IVF w/ ICSI given the morphology issue.  IUI wouldn't work because of the count and morphology.  I definitely appreciate his honesty - don't waste my time saying, "we can try this, but it probably won't work and even though you're young enough, it's still time you need" basically.  I had my sonohystrgram (?) yesterday - not a fun experience - but Dr Frankfurter did it and he was great.  He said everything looked great, no signs of any problems.  Dr. G told me that he has no reason to believe that we won't have a family and that we are excellent candidates for ICSI because I seem to have no problems that he knows of. Not sure that's reassuring, but it wasn't BAD to hear!

Our next step is the IVF class at GW on the 30th and then I get my Day 3 blood test (which I had JUST missed...).

I currently have Aetna CDHP and will switch to MD IPA because while the referrals seem like a pain, I have confidence that GW will assist me.  They gave me costs up front and aren't hiding anything - I like how transparent they are.

So - I just wanted to share our experiences and if anyone else is like us (male problems) who wants a buddy to vent with, I'd like that.  Or if anyone is also going to the Oct 30th class.

Lastly, if anyone has a good PCP on MD IPA, I'd appreciate the info.  My PCP doesn't and she became a members only clinic, which really irks me....

Best to all - and having read a lot on here, there's a lot of good info, which I hope to contribute to as we go through this.  [/quote]

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