Helloo!
I'm going into my third round of ICSI now and while we got lucky on the first round with a BFP (My beautiful little girl) it was with only one properly developing embryo out of 11 fertilised eggs.
Our second attempt failed with 12 mature eggs, of which only 3 fertilised (despite ICSI) and those three all stopped developing on day 4 - indicating sperm issues.
This has now been attributed to very poor sperm (low volume, low count, low motility, very high DNA fragmentation).
We know from the fact that our first round was successful that this is, for us, a numbers game and it's all about finding the few decent sperm. We want to avoid surgical retrieval and to that end we're now going with IMSI (and embryoscope to hopefully avoid the heartbreak of putting back embryos which turn out to have stopped developing on day 4...). I dream of having embryos to freeze as without this this will most likely be our last attempt.
Does anyone have any success stories of treatment with IMSI? - I know this is largely unproven technology but the theory seems sensible.
Hoping someone can share some hope on this as I'm having a day of wondering why we're going through all this again with such low chances of success - I'm wondering why I'm not saving the money to give our beautiful daughter nice things - but I do still have such a strong urge to give her a sibling.
I'm going into my third round of ICSI now and while we got lucky on the first round with a BFP (My beautiful little girl) it was with only one properly developing embryo out of 11 fertilised eggs.
Our second attempt failed with 12 mature eggs, of which only 3 fertilised (despite ICSI) and those three all stopped developing on day 4 - indicating sperm issues.
This has now been attributed to very poor sperm (low volume, low count, low motility, very high DNA fragmentation).
We know from the fact that our first round was successful that this is, for us, a numbers game and it's all about finding the few decent sperm. We want to avoid surgical retrieval and to that end we're now going with IMSI (and embryoscope to hopefully avoid the heartbreak of putting back embryos which turn out to have stopped developing on day 4...). I dream of having embryos to freeze as without this this will most likely be our last attempt.
Does anyone have any success stories of treatment with IMSI? - I know this is largely unproven technology but the theory seems sensible.
Hoping someone can share some hope on this as I'm having a day of wondering why we're going through all this again with such low chances of success - I'm wondering why I'm not saving the money to give our beautiful daughter nice things - but I do still have such a strong urge to give her a sibling.
