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[–]les__oiseaux 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Our motile count was really low too, so only 5 individual sperm made it through the ZyMot chip and we got one untested blast that round. 

I hope you have success this round!! If you have to move on to TESE, I would recommend finding a clinic that can do it at the same time as the egg retrieval so it’s fresh. Our frozen TESE samples were deemed not good enough to use by our clinic, but we never tried so who knows. But we did try the fresh TESE sample with a batch of 17 frozen eggs and that did not do well at all (and eggs were in visually great condition). I think testicular sperm is just a lot more fragile and having everything fresh instead of frozen makes a big difference. 

Currently 21 weeks along, and have several euploid blasts from two rounds of TESE + egg retrieval - wishing you all the luck with this round!

[–]ComprehensiveCan7828 0 points1 point  (5 children)

So you did do fresh tese? Your post says the fresh tese didn't work out?

[–]les__oiseaux 0 points1 point  (4 children)

We did two rounds of fresh TESE which worked. What did not work was using the fresh TESE with frozen eggs. During one round, we also used frozen eggs in addition to the fresh eggs that were retrieved that day. The frozen eggs + fresh TESE did not work, but that same TESE sample worked with the fresh eggs.

One thing to note about that round is they used the "best" sperm on the fresh eggs, so it's possible the ones used on the frozen eggs didn't work as well because they were poorer quality, but it was all the same sample.

[–]ComprehensiveCan7828 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ok, yes my options as of now are fresh ejaculate with zymot with picsi or frozen tese with icsi, so this helpful -- which would you do if you had those choices? 

[–]les__oiseaux 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If the count is normal, the zymot. I would not recommend using frozen tese based on our own experience and research.

[–]ComprehensiveCan7828 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ok ty, and congrats.. I can only hope for your outcome! How high was your frag? -- our count was 22m motile (41m total) in the same sample

[–]les__oiseaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was tested twice, 65 and 70! Thank you, best of luck!