What's been going on.

So, my husband was diagnosed with a grade 2 varicocele. A varicocele is basically a varicose vein in his left testicle that heats up and kills off his sperm.

There are a few options for this:

1.)varicocele repair

2.)IVF with ICSI

Nothing is covered with insurance.

Varicocele repair costs $6000 with the doctor we wanted

to go with.

IVF is expensive and complicated.

Anyway, a few positive things have happened.

My husband made some changes, began some supplements and his sperm count has been steadily rising.

In September the first result that we got was .8 million (800,000 sperm count) with 12% motility

That is when we began to make some changes.

in October it went up to 16 million with 5% motility

in November it went up to 20 million with 37% motility

in January it went up to 49 million with 55% motility! Yay! Normal without drugs or surgery!

We decided to go to a reproductive endocrynologist who suggested an IUI plus varicocele repair.

So we scheduled his varicocelectomy and did an IUI a few days ago. My husband had a sperm count

there and found that his sperm count had gone up to 49 million with a motility of 55%.

Amazing.

Anyway, hopefully that did it. I really want to be pregnant already. I'll find out in two weeks.

This is what we did.

1.) My husband changed from boxer briefs to regular boxers

2.) He cut down on alcohol.

3.) He began taking vitamins and supplements.

This is what he took:

1.) New Chapter Mens Vitamins - you have to take 3 at a time. There is also a one daily but my husband

couldn't stomach it.

3 each evening

2.) Jarrow L-Carnitine

1 each morning

3.) New Chapter High Potency Zinc

1 each morning and 1 each morning

4.)Fertilaid

The dosage is 3, but my husband could only stomach 2 each morning.

Anyway, I hope that I am pregnant. And I hope that this information can help some other people.

I'll post when I find out.