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Hi Peter,
At last I have been excepted as a egg sharer and will be starting as soon as my next AF.
Yesterday I was so excited but after having a long think about it all ,I feel very worried.
I have had lots of test done in the past which have all come back normal except very mild endo and a heart shaped womb (sorry can not remember the proper name for it).
I had my scan yesterday and all is well and normal and the heart shape womb is not as bad as my gynea doctor reported.
DH had is sperm sample looked at again yesterday and his count has risen to 100 million and has good mobility and the anti bodies that are present are not at all as bad as previous tested.(dh gave up smoking a month ago and has been taking zinc daily)
Doctor said after ttc for 4 years that a pregnancy should of occured,he then said it was probally due to them not bonding and we therefore needed ICSI and at the same time they would see if IVF would work as well incase we needed this the second time.
I am a little confused with ICSI and IVF is one better than the other why would he try ICSI first and then IVF if the first failed.
He said percentage wise 50/50 is this good! at the time I thought it was but not knowing the percentage generally I am not so sure.
For a long time I was told it was the sperm antibodies that had prevented a pg but know what else could it be.
I have a had along look at my lifestyle today and there a few things that I thought may not of helped and one of these are;
1: Asthma I have had in the past, does taking inhalers and inhaled steriod and prednisolone affect fertility,
2
ainkillers I take once a month for the endo pain I get I take co codramol and sometimes tramodol,will these effect it.
3:diets I constantly try to keep my weight down and tried lots of diets in the past even though I am not actually not overweight.(I was bullimic when I was a teenager period stoped for 3 years)
4:Smoking in the past I only gave up 2 years ago
sorry to go on Peter hopefully you can put my mind to rest.
Thanks
Lisa
At last I have been excepted as a egg sharer and will be starting as soon as my next AF.
Yesterday I was so excited but after having a long think about it all ,I feel very worried.
I have had lots of test done in the past which have all come back normal except very mild endo and a heart shaped womb (sorry can not remember the proper name for it).
I had my scan yesterday and all is well and normal and the heart shape womb is not as bad as my gynea doctor reported.
DH had is sperm sample looked at again yesterday and his count has risen to 100 million and has good mobility and the anti bodies that are present are not at all as bad as previous tested.(dh gave up smoking a month ago and has been taking zinc daily)
Doctor said after ttc for 4 years that a pregnancy should of occured,he then said it was probally due to them not bonding and we therefore needed ICSI and at the same time they would see if IVF would work as well incase we needed this the second time.
I am a little confused with ICSI and IVF is one better than the other why would he try ICSI first and then IVF if the first failed.
He said percentage wise 50/50 is this good! at the time I thought it was but not knowing the percentage generally I am not so sure.
For a long time I was told it was the sperm antibodies that had prevented a pg but know what else could it be.
I have a had along look at my lifestyle today and there a few things that I thought may not of helped and one of these are;
1: Asthma I have had in the past, does taking inhalers and inhaled steriod and prednisolone affect fertility,
2
3:diets I constantly try to keep my weight down and tried lots of diets in the past even though I am not actually not overweight.(I was bullimic when I was a teenager period stoped for 3 years)
4:Smoking in the past I only gave up 2 years ago
sorry to go on Peter hopefully you can put my mind to rest.
Thanks
Lisa