Hello,
My husband and I are moving to Hong Kong and are TTC.
Over a year ago, we went to a fertility clinic in the Middle East, just because they had a free fertility check up. We planned to have kids but at the time of check up we weren't actively trying.
As a 30 year old, the number of eggs from an ultrasound are 'on par' with what's normal. My husband's results came back with low count, poor morphology and poor motility - he is 30 too. This was a hard news, but we thought maybe they were due to lifestyle choices.
We repeated a semen analysis after 3 months at a different clinic, similar results but with slightly different classifications. We then saw a urologist who inspected and did an ultrasound to find grade 2/3 varicocele and suggested having a varicocelectomy and to take Pro-fertil.
Four months later we did another semen analysis at a different clinic, different country and there have been no improvements whatsoever. The urologist said the surgery was successful but we were not in the 60/70% that experience improvement and have advised IVF.
Given known fertility, we would like advice on where to go for a consultation, IVF doctors etc, this would be the start of our journey. At the moment only he has a job; cost and expectation management will be crucial as I've heard IVF is hard!
Hope someone is able to share their experiences. Where should we go first?
Keep safe.
My husband and I are moving to Hong Kong and are TTC.
Over a year ago, we went to a fertility clinic in the Middle East, just because they had a free fertility check up. We planned to have kids but at the time of check up we weren't actively trying.
As a 30 year old, the number of eggs from an ultrasound are 'on par' with what's normal. My husband's results came back with low count, poor morphology and poor motility - he is 30 too. This was a hard news, but we thought maybe they were due to lifestyle choices.
We repeated a semen analysis after 3 months at a different clinic, similar results but with slightly different classifications. We then saw a urologist who inspected and did an ultrasound to find grade 2/3 varicocele and suggested having a varicocelectomy and to take Pro-fertil.
Four months later we did another semen analysis at a different clinic, different country and there have been no improvements whatsoever. The urologist said the surgery was successful but we were not in the 60/70% that experience improvement and have advised IVF.
Given known fertility, we would like advice on where to go for a consultation, IVF doctors etc, this would be the start of our journey. At the moment only he has a job; cost and expectation management will be crucial as I've heard IVF is hard!
Hope someone is able to share their experiences. Where should we go first?
Keep safe.