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Hi there...
I was hoping that one of you ladies (or gents) may have have some experience conceiving with a really low sperm count. DH had an analysis done recently and since he works in the hospital, he obtained a copy of the results in advance of our first appt with an RE tomorrow.
I've read that normal is somewhere around 20million/mL and under 10million is considered low. His results came back with < 1 million motile and 1-4 million immotile. We realize that this is extremely low and DH is taking it pretty hard. I'm trying to be supportive while dealing with the disappointment I feel on my own. The report stated 'no percentage' for all categories in morphology and I'm not sure if this is because there were so few to evaluate or because 0% were normal in their morphology. The sample was also outside the realm of normal as far as pH is concerned.
I guess my question is whether anyone has had a similar situation dealing with an extremely low count and if we have any good options going forward to conceive. I know I could wait until tomorrow to hear options from the RE but I guess I'm just hoping someone else's success story will pull me out of this state of feeling hopeless.
Thanks in advance
I was hoping that one of you ladies (or gents) may have have some experience conceiving with a really low sperm count. DH had an analysis done recently and since he works in the hospital, he obtained a copy of the results in advance of our first appt with an RE tomorrow.
I've read that normal is somewhere around 20million/mL and under 10million is considered low. His results came back with < 1 million motile and 1-4 million immotile. We realize that this is extremely low and DH is taking it pretty hard. I'm trying to be supportive while dealing with the disappointment I feel on my own. The report stated 'no percentage' for all categories in morphology and I'm not sure if this is because there were so few to evaluate or because 0% were normal in their morphology. The sample was also outside the realm of normal as far as pH is concerned.
I guess my question is whether anyone has had a similar situation dealing with an extremely low count and if we have any good options going forward to conceive. I know I could wait until tomorrow to hear options from the RE but I guess I'm just hoping someone else's success story will pull me out of this state of feeling hopeless.
Thanks in advance