Hey everyone!
Hope you are all well, and happy.
I am going to be carrying on from my last blog, if you have still not read please do this will make a lot more sense!
So, like I said in the previous blog we decided to book an appointment with Manchester fertility clinic after months of research I found in terms of location, and the reviews it was the best.
We called them up to book our first every appointment the lady booked me in for tests and also a followup consultation which came to a £735.
We had to pay that in advance and also fill in a form and send it before the appointment.
On the day of the appointment we went in and my husband was taken to give his sample and I was taken for an internal ultrasound. The whole experience very comfortable I felt like we were actually taken more seriously. So when she was doing the ultrasound she can only find one of my ovaries the other one was hiding somewhere so she asked me to go and drink a lot of water so she can do the normal ultrasound to see if she can locate the other ovary. Which did appear on the screen later on.
They also did a blood test to see my egg reserve because I told them I wanted to do IVF treatment.
Our follow up appointment was a week after, so we went in the doctor was extremely helpful and informative. He basically said 'Your pelvic ultrasound scan shows an entirely normal uterus and healthy ovaries with an antral follicle count of 14+6. Your anti-mullerian hormone level measures 37.6 pmol/l. These numbers reflects good ovarian reserve and predicts a food ovarian response in IVF. The semen shows a sperm concentration of 1,800,000/mL with 6% of progressive motile forms. with such sperm quality, pregnancy is achievable by IVF/ICSU treatment.' This was actually in an email they send as a summary to what we talked about.
He advised my husband to freeze his sperm, he also said to work out why it's so low he needs to take two blood tests one to test his hormone levels and one to determine whether it is a genetic cause.
The hormone blood test was quoted at £150 and the genetics was £750. Which is a lot. He also said that there is 100% chance that if my husband is a carrier if I conceive a son he will also be a carrier.
Which to me was something I will not go through until I know for sure that the problem is not genetic.
Anyway, we decided to try our luck again and see if the NHS will be willing to do both of these blood tests.
We went to them, they said they need proof of the conversation we had with the clinic which we now have. So hopefully no more excuses from them and I will update you on what will happen next!
Take care for now! Wish you call the best!
Shay
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