My DH has 0% morphology and low motility & count - what they call a triple defect. We were told that it might be caused by a varicocele so he went off to a urologist and found that he did have a varicocele. It's like variceos veins in your leg except it's above their testes and it's like a ball of spaghetti. There's a lot of mixed information out there about them - some doctors will say it makes no difference to your fertility and others will say it does affect it. We decided to have it fixed as it was quite easy and my acupuncturist recommended it, so he had it embulised. She also said we should be pregnant within the first 3 months or so after it. So we were quite excited about it.
Well, it's the 3rd month now and we just had another SA done and the results were the same as before. And the SA guy said that it takes a full 3 months for the sperm to be produced and make it's way to the testes so we would have to wait the full 3 months to see any change. Also, that it may take 6-12 months to see any improvement. It's so frustrating the way everyone tells you different information - how are you supposed to make an informed decision?!!?!? It's so annoying.
Anyway, we had already met with an IVF doctor and he said to come back to him after 2 months. We're going next week so we'll see what he says. Considering there has been no change I think we'll be looking at IVF with ICSI.
My DH has also been taking heaps of vitamins and having acupuncture - all of which seems to have done nothing!!! It's very stressful. I don't really want to wait 6 or 12 months for something that might not happen at all. But I don't want to do IVF if we don't need to either. It's a very difficult decision we have - do we wait, and if we do, for how long ?????
There doesn't seem to be much they can do for men - except IUI/ IVF. There's nothing like Clomid for men... that I know of anyway. It seems for severe MI the only answer is IVF.
It's a very difficult road and I wish you luck with it. I hope you get your BFP soon!!
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