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[SillyBilly]

We just finished our first medicated IUI (7 days of Gonal-F, 50 IU, followed by Ovidrel 250 IU; one 17 mm follicle at trigger with 10mm lining) and it was a failure.  The clinic called yesterday with a negative and my period started first thing this morning.  I have a regular cycle, ovulate, clear tubes, no problems other than being 37, but my husband has a very low sperm count (it has been as low as <1 million, but it was 7 million for the IUI), and slightly below average motility and morphology.  He's 31 and otherwise super healthy.  Our clinic won't let us do back-to-back medicated IUIs, so I'm wondering if I should: a) do an unmedicated IUI this cycle just wait for IVF (it'll be a around April-June, but I'll be 38 by then) or c) do a medicated IUI with an American clinic (does anyone have any experience with American fertility clinics?)  

 

Thank you, and good luck to everyone!

[Rach357113]

Honestly, you should do what your gut tells you to do. If you don't and you don't get a positive result you will end up blaming yourself.

 

Also, just a little insight into American Clinics. It may take a few months to get your appt of initial consultation(My RE had a 5-month wait) so you wouldn't be able to do a back to back cycle anyway. By all means, make the appt but while you're waiting, it can't hurt to do the unmedicated cycle with your clinic in Canada. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned most of the time. I was all set for a transfer in June. Had my plan of action appt with my RE and then had to wait for AF to arrive. Then I had to wait until 3 weeks into that cycle for a sonohystagram(this was purely due to the RE's schedule, I was so mad). They found polyps and scheduled a D&C a week or so later. Only after that could I start my transfer cycle, in the end, we didn't transfer until Sept 13th.