Thought id give an update.
Unfortunately we didn't achieve pregnancy last month. I was hopeful, but alas... no joy. So we try again this month.
I have my laparoscopic varicolectemy this Monday coming, which I am not looking forward to. My urologist said I should be fine to have sex within a couple of days, so we shouldn't miss my wife's fertile window. Her fertile period is around the 27th, op is on 22nd. I am having both sides done.
I also saw an endo last week who said he thinks I have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. We are unsure if that was always the case but given I have never once in my life had a pregnancy scare with 2 long term partners from the age of 14 and having never used a condom.... it is quite possible.
I am unsure at this stage whether I will actually take the prescription he gave me for HCG and HMG, as it is private and we have to pay for it... and heres the kicker... it was £3.1k for 3 months worth lol. I am waiting for another quote from an online pharmacy he recommended, but the cost was insane.
I had 2 sperm samples tested and frozen over the last week; one with less than a 24 hour abstinence in an effort to reduce DNA fragmentation, and the other with a 5 day abstinence so we could do a HBA test and semen culture as well.
They were both actually pretty good:
1.5ml total (need to get this up)
29m per ml (from 0.7m)
52% progressive motility
11% morphology (from 3%)
HBA 66%
So if anything happens, we at least have 4 vials of this frozen which would do us 4 full cycles of IVF.
I am currently rotating 5 brands of HMG, but mostly using the Ferring Menopur that I have as follows:
2000iu hcg 3x per week
112.5iu HMG 3x per week (usually 75iu of which is Ferring)
I went back onto TRT last Wednesday after the endo cleared me to do so, and my god I feel better. I finally have libido and actually feel good again. Thank god lol!
Now I just need to try and get this layer of fat off that I developed on my abdomen over the last 12 weeks or so. I just couldn't seem to stop it, i assume because I had F all testosterone. For reference, for 10 years I have had no trouble staying lean pretty much all year. This is the fattest my abdomen has been in a very, very long time. The rest of my body fat didn't seem to change at all.