Friday, November 20, 2009

IUI the procedure

I went in on Wed to do the IUI.  J dropped off the sperm at 8 am and we went in at 9:45am for the procedure.  His numbers where good.. 87 million sperm pre-wash and 13 million post wash.  According to my online research:
" A count above one million washed appears necessary for success, with a significant reduction in pregnancy rates when the inseminated is count is lower than 5-10 million (in other words, in most cases one should consider 5 million a lower limit for success, 10 million for cost-effective). Higher success rates are with washed counts over 20-30 million, while increasing counts over 50 million did not appear to offer advantage." Source: http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/iui.html
 I only had one follie on the right side that matured to 20.  That means our chance for a successful pregnancy is lowered to 6%. 
" Searching through about a dozen medical journal articles and a number of web sites resulted in a rather wide range of statistics. Basically the odds of success are reported to be just under 6 percent and as high as 26 percent per cycle. The low statistics are with one follicle, while multiple follicles resulted in as high 26 percent success. Another influencing factor is sperm count. Higher sperm counts increase the odds of success; however, there was little difference between success with good-average counts and those with high counts. The overall success rate seems to be between 15-20 percent per cycle, judging from the articles which will be abstracted below. The rate of multiple gestation pregnancies is 23-30 percent.
According to different studies, either 3-4 follicles gives one the best chance of getting pregnant, while more follicles beyond that simply increases the risk of multiples. The U.S. study said 4 follicles, while other countries have data stating 3. The U.S. has a higher rate of multiple births, so 3 may be more likely to be the correct answer." Source: http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/iui.html
So now I wait until Dec 2, 2009 where they will draw my blood to see if I am pregnant or not. 

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