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Please help! don't understand!
Hi all,me & my oh are trying for baby no 2 have been for over 18 months,we are now going down the road of tests my bloods are ok my oh has just had sperm results back & the only thing that came back with a problem is the form?? dr said it should be 20% but his is coming back at 9% what does this mean? Is there anything we can do to change this? is this my dream of having baby no2 gone please if anyone can help weather good or bad news can sitting crying my eyes out i know i'm so lucky to have lo but always wanted 2 esp now as lo is desperate to have a little brother or sis thanks xo
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Sorry to hear you are having to go through this but glad you are starting investigations. Form basically means the shape and size of your oh sperms. We all know what a "normal" sperm cell should look like, but not all of them look like this. I think it is most unusual, if not impossible, for a man to have 100% normal forms. However, in order to make natural conception possible a certain % have to be considered "normal".
In my experience it depends on the individual PCT what % they like to see. Yours obviously says 20%, mine looks for 15% and I have heard that some consider just 10% normal to be sufficient.
At 9% I wouldn't say there is a complete impossibility of conceiving naturally. My hubby has 8% which we were initially devastated by (and may still have to go the IVF route) but people can conceive with much lower, it's not impossible.
Really your oh needs to do three samples in order for the hospital to obtain a true average. In the meantime, there are some steps you can take towards improving sperm quality, including:
Cut down on caffeine
No smoking
Cut down on alcohol
No hot baths
Put oh on vitamin supplements (lots of the girls on here can recommend good ones)
Keep mobile phone out of pocket
OH not to use laptop on lap
Exercise
Drink lots of water
I've written this all in a bit of a rush as on my lunch break at work, but hope it points you in the right direction a bit. x
Also, just to say that they should do at least another one or two sperm tests as it could just have been a one-off bad result.
Angelfish is form the same as morphology? If so, then I agree that 9% is really not that bad. Am fairly sure orangepants was told that if morphology is the only issue then there is still a reasonably good chance of conceiving naturally.
Good luck hon xx
cloclo, you should probably ask for oh to have another couple of tests done and then sit down with your doc to discuss the results fully. Make sure oh obeys your orders and you may well see an improvement in the next result! x
Anyway, yep i agree with Angel fish, 15 is the norm, but think of it this way, a person with a low count may have 10 mil sperm, so 15% of 10 mil... if your hubby has good count, say 30 or 40 mil you have 8% of that number, so overall still good chance, esp if mot is good so what you have got is swimming in right direction.
Id try not to worry too much about that, also SA can change quickly, there are several threads running on here about this subject, have a look though, im sure you'll fins one that helps.
Good Luck x