Today I feel like someone just pulled a rug from under my feet. The results of my husband sperm test came in - everything is normal, except for guess what, morphology. It's at 2%, which is not good at all. Now our (formerly) optimistic Dr wants him to do a Sperm Chromatine Structure Assay; this test is relatively new and might pick up DNA defects in sperm which could account for multiple miscarriages, among other things. He also suggested few supplements.
So not only we're facing crappy deal with my eggs and uterus, we have sperm problems as well.
I am alternating between tears and fury. The thing is, nobody did any of these tests a year ago. There was no FSH, no AFC, no sperm test. Nothing was done. We were getting pregnant, right? So no one basically wanted to dig further. If only we knew the full picture then, we could have made different choices. Or maybe the choices would have been the same, but we'd have made them with our eyes open. Even now, I am basically wasting this cycle, and on medications, no less - and I'll be wasting then some, before the damned supplements even work. And now I feel like, why bother at all.
The whole process is so frustratingly chaotic. Oh you want to check this? Okay - ooopsy Daisy, bad results, let's do this! Or, you insist on this? Why would you? Okay, but look, here's another shitty result - um, whatever, let's add this! Why not do all the tests at the very beginning? I am not a fertility specialist, I don't know all the right questions to ask and all the right tests to request. But look where it got us. Two years, four miscarriages, no rest for the wicked.
So not only we're facing crappy deal with my eggs and uterus, we have sperm problems as well.
I am alternating between tears and fury. The thing is, nobody did any of these tests a year ago. There was no FSH, no AFC, no sperm test. Nothing was done. We were getting pregnant, right? So no one basically wanted to dig further. If only we knew the full picture then, we could have made different choices. Or maybe the choices would have been the same, but we'd have made them with our eyes open. Even now, I am basically wasting this cycle, and on medications, no less - and I'll be wasting then some, before the damned supplements even work. And now I feel like, why bother at all.
The whole process is so frustratingly chaotic. Oh you want to check this? Okay - ooopsy Daisy, bad results, let's do this! Or, you insist on this? Why would you? Okay, but look, here's another shitty result - um, whatever, let's add this! Why not do all the tests at the very beginning? I am not a fertility specialist, I don't know all the right questions to ask and all the right tests to request. But look where it got us. Two years, four miscarriages, no rest for the wicked.
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