Time to try something different...

Okay, so after the shock has worn off, we start reading about this sperm thing and as it turns out, one SA is not conlusive and you need to have another one to be sure - um, not ready for that yet...we also see that sperm can be fixed to a certain degree with diet etc...so, we decide to try accupuncture.

I find a wonderful dr - a naturopath that specialises in infertility - oh yay! So we start seeing this dr in July. He puts us on a special diet and says that I have a liver problem and seeing as tho your liver affects fertility too, we work on that - I go for cupping every week until he can start seeing changes....blood changes colour and toxins are reduced and I see to be reponding to treatment well. Frank has a prostate problem where his prostate sometimes becomes inflamed and so he treats Frank for that and the sperm issue....

Eventually he tells me that we are both healthy and that I should now be able to fall pregnant...and we wait and try...and we wait and try....

I lose my sense of humour yet again....and decide to move on.....once again.....sigh.

Reproductive Assistance - WTF??

Okay, so we are both in a bit of shock here, I'm thinking...friggin' hell, I knew that there was something wrong....but this...why couldn't it be something easy? (At this point, I'm still new at this, I think that there is an "easy infertility cure"....ha ha!)

My husband of-course is absolutely devastated, it's never easy being told that you are faulty and the main cause of your infertilty issues....so, we are referred to a fertility specialist. He looks at the sperm tests (without knowing anything about us at all - no bloods etc) and tells us that Frank has a "genetic" sperm problem and we will either need IUI or IVF to conceive and will never conceive natrually, geez budy - easy on us here...we're new at this for christ sake!!

He gives us a prescription for some vitamins and sperm aid for Frank, even tells us not to bother with another SA as the results wont change....mmmmm, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, come back in September for the IUI....

Ja well no fine...

Oh yes, he wants to do a lapscope - lapscope No.3 to check my tubes, ovaries and uterus, so I have my lap in June. He removes a cyst (cyst No.3 from my right ovary) and tells me that my tubes are totally fine and no sign of any other problems....2 months and counting until IUI or IVF...or so we think....

Time for tests....

So, by now I was starting to loose my mind, I had been to my gynea to check that all my "insides" were okay (by scan), blood tests to check that I was indeed ovulating (which I was, every month without fail...your standard 28 day cycles at that!!) Everything looked just peachy....time for that dreaded SA...

My gynea phoned to say the the "fertility screening" bloods that he had done on me were fine and that all levels were within "normal" range - yeah right - what exactly may I ask is "normal"?? Anyway, moving on....the phone call then tells us that Frank has really bad morphology and that the count and motility is low too....that dreaded sentence "I'm sorry Mrs. Gardiner, by the looks of things you willl need reproductive assistance"....Oh dear, need I say more?