Low sperm count and TTC for over 3 years. In need of hope!
Here is my story...Me and my husband have been TTC for over three years now and lately I've been starting to give up hope. When we first started trying for a baby we never thought at all possible there would be anything fertility wise wrong with us. We are both healthy young mid twenty adults who don't smoke and eat right. But after about a year with no success we started to worry. We held off for over a entire other year later till we started seeking fertility help. First we had myself checked by my gyno, my doc then told me I am in perfect health I am just stressing out to much and I need to relax in order to get pregnant. Which was not the case. So we finally had my husband's sperm checked. When we got the results back we were devastated. He had low sperm count. We have taken him to two different urologist and both saying different things, one says low sperm count the other saying bad morphology. So we decided to go to a fertility clinic to see if they could help us. They first had me checked, with blood work, sonograms of my uterus/ovaries and the terrifying HSG test. Everything came back that I was fine and fertile. So they scheduled us for our first <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> cycle in September. When the two weeks of waiting was over I unfortunately got the heart breaking phone call it didn't work I wasn't pregnant. We decided to take a break from the fertility clinic because of how expensive it was and it being emotionally draining. Now almost three months later still nothing, my husband has been taking three different vitamin pills such as fertilaid, motility boost and count boost. But so far it has not worked, after us charting my cycle and having intercourse during my fertile time. We are waiting for the three month mark which is what they say to wait to see if the pills have had an effect on his sperm. But right now I'm not sure anything will work. I'm scared we will need to spend more money on IUIs or have to take a loan out for <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IVF</a>. We have even talked about a sperm donor, which would be our last resort and would absolutely crush me if I couldn't have my husband's baby. The doctors tell us my husband isn't infertile and he has sperm, between 12-16 million so there is some hope but how and when it will happen is the question. But the reason for my post is I would love to hear from other women in a similar position who either are going through the same thing right now or who have been in this position and have gotten pregnant. I am in desperate need of some hope. So please share your stories if you can relate, thank you!! 💗
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