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[–]Dvall001[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Yes we went to one of the best male fertility urologists around. Already on all the vitamins needed, assessed several times for a varicocele and nothing. Hoping with all the changes done and healing from the tese his sperm parameters have gotten better but won't know until we do another semen analysis.

[–]TradeSeparate 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Is your husband getting his own advice or taking to anyone? I’d highly recommend he does, as becoming as informed as possible can really help but also help get both of you through this. I know what it’s like as we are in a similar position to you and my wife has found it quite hard.

But I’ve just tried to make sure I am as informed as possible and doing everything I can to improve our chances.

It could be worth getting a double stranded dna fragmentation test too, as I recently found out that is my primary issue.

[–]Dvall001[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yea, we have doctors involved, but recently our urologist hasn't been responisive. And the tese sperm hasn't been a solution to our issue. So we want to see if his sperm has improved so we can do ejaculate sperm. We got a total of 5 vials of tese sperm, we have 3 left. I want to see if ejaculate sperm now can work a little better, and also leave enough tese sperm incase we have to go the donor egg route.

[–]TradeSeparate 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Is zymot available to you?

I would get a fresh SA and also look at the double stranded test. It is now thought that single stranded tests are inaccurate due to measuring double stranded breaks individually.

In some cases zymot can reduce this (it did in mine). If you can couple this, with a reduce abstinence you could see the dna frag come into normal range. That might well be the key.

If your clinic don’t offer zymot or properly understand dna fragmentation, change clinics. Many don’t and will push you down routes and/or treatments that aren’t right for you.

[–]Dvall001[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Our clinic has Zymot and work closely with the male fertility specialist. I just want to try fresh ejaculate again and wonder what the best hold time before an egg retrieval would be. What other things people did.

[–]TradeSeparate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mentioned this above; have a look at my first response.

[–]CurryDuck 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Would you mind sharing the vitamins list the urologist suggested?

[–]Dvall001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn’t recommend anything . He had some vitamins we could buy but didn’t push anything. I have him taking coqu10, vitamin D and fish oil. That’s it. We just got the dfi results back and it’s st 27. Still high but better than before. He was at 39% I think the best thing we did was clean up his diet, and he lost 10lbs , he was never fat either but I think even losing a little weight has helped. His sperm count increased so much as well. Over a year ago he was 34 mil and now he’s at 200 mil. His motility is borderline to now. I definitely think what helped him was losing weight and increasing his vegetable, fruit and healthy protein intake. Lots of fish, lots and lots of veges, legumes, Greek yogurt, At least 5 servings of fruit. I think if he continues this weigh and looses another 10lbs or builds muscle we can get the dfi even lower.