tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745213873752284384.post5115206786131399032..comments2023-06-25T07:52:43.921-07:00Comments on Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope: Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05292279414919447049noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745213873752284384.post-55230360585353864862010-10-10T21:25:46.916-07:002010-10-10T21:25:46.916-07:00Hi there, so sorry for what you've been throug...Hi there, so sorry for what you've been through. My husband was dx'd with extremely bad morphology (in his case due to obesity) after 4 years of misdx, 11 IUIs and 1 IVF. It turns out he has extremely low testosterone (and the big ol' belly is a keg full of estrogen). He was treated with hcg injections for extremely low testosterone (self injection 3x/wk) and after 50+ BFNs and all those medicated cycles, I did get pregnant naturally at the age of 40. All it would've taken is an endocrine work up and a Krueger semen analysis and we wouldn't have wasted our life savings. The IVF dr wasn't interested in getting to the root of DH's bad morphology either.... because the fix was a $5/mo script and not ANOTHER $13K procedure. In addition to extremely low testosterone, he is a type II diabetic and low -T affects way more than just a man's fertility.<br /><br />I should just leave the period there, since I did get pg again after DH started treatment which he'll be on for life. Sadly, that miracle 4 years in the making, turned into a nightmare when I found out at 19 weeks that she had Trisomy 13 and holoprosencephaly. It took 15 weeks for her to be stillborn after that dx on September 10, 2009. We are now both 42 this year and have no living children.Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02258981575978979003noreply@blogger.com