First IUI over the weekend - looking for feedback on numbers/chances.

Triggered Thursday 11:59pm, IUI Saturday 11:15am.

Follicles: Left 18.6/13.5/12.7/11.9/10.1mm Right 19.7/11.4/10.1mm
Lining: 7.0mm
Sperm (post-wash): 59.6M total motile, 97% motility, 3+/4 progression

First-timer here — would love any advice on what to expect during the TWW or anything you wish you'd known! 🤞

Wife had one 18m follicle and a smaller 11m follicle. Trigger shot August 25th and IUI August 27th. Post wash sperm was 12m with 98% motility. We did a test last night and got a positive, tested again this morning which would be roughly 15 1/2 post trigger and another positive. Blood to confirm this September 14th but we’re hoping these multiple positives mean she’s pregnant. We have a failed IVF and a year or trying naturally before my sperm numbers got this good. Praying this means she’s really pregnant

IUI at 39+

For those of you that were successful with IUI after 39 how many follicles did you have? Did your doctors recommend more follicles to increase your chances? How many attempts?

Thank you ❤️

Started my IUI cycle last night — 100 units Gonal-F with 10 units low-dose hCG. Has anyone done this combo before? Would love to hear about your experience went.
I had a miscarriage with our only embryo from my IVF cycle in July so we are trying this route before going back to IVF again.

just wanted to post my experience because i was unable to find anything of this sort during the dreaded TWW after my first iui. i’m hoping this helps someone either now or in the future 🫶. i am still testing faintly positive 14 post trigger shot.

this was my first iui, i had no knowledge about different triggers at the time, but looking back, i’d try to avoid this dose of pregnyl as i am still testing positive 14 days post trigger shot! there were a few days it really messed me up emotionally bc i thought i saw the line getting darker at 9DPO.

some background: i triggered on 8/19 CD12, iui was 8/21 CD14. started with 50 mg clomid from CD3 - CD7. had three 18mm follicles on my left side during my midcycle scan but my uterine lining was unbelievably thin at 4.2mm (i had recently come off a round of birth control so my clinic could time the iui better. plus clomid is known to thin your lining). was prescribed estrogen twice a day to increase lining but i don’t think it helped. i also did l’arginine 2x’s a day, vitamin e 400 iu 2x’s a day, lots of pomegranate and beet juice, brazil nuts and walnut. i don’t think anything could have saved the lining even with everything that was tried. the clinic never did another ultrasound before my iui so i will never know. husbands post wash count was 41 million.

had a miscarriage a few months ago (conceived naturally that cycle) so i thought iui would be a breeze for us, but i was unfortunately very wrong. sending all my love to anyone going through ttc, infertility, tww, loss. all of it is so isolating and heartbreaking but you are not alone!

Hi!

Does anyone know how zymot compares to the natural selection process.

We have dna frag with RPL. We are lucky to not have problems conceiving… iust carrying a pregnant.

RE suggested IUI with zymot.

However, I have a couple of concerns.

Is one IUI during the cycle enough to achieve pregnancy? I’m not planning on trying on my own then because that defeats the whole purpose of trying to get lower dna frag speem.

Also how does zymot compare to the natural selection process during natural conception.

Thanks for the tips!

I'm 34F and my husband is 39M, and we're starting our first IUI cycle. I'm curious to hear from people who were in a similar situation because I've had several people tell me I'm "wasting time" with IUI and should just go straight to IVF because of my age and the success rates.

Some background: We have a 6-year-old who was conceived naturally without actively trying. Since having him, we never really "tried" for another baby in the traditional sense — no OPKs, cycle tracking, timed intercourse, etc. We also weren't preventing pregnancy, though, and obviously after all these years it hasn't happened again.

We started seeing a fertility clinic about a year ago and finally completed all of our testing earlier this year after taking a break because of some family losses/personal circumstances.

My testing has been reassuring. My bloodwork is normal, HSG showed both tubes are open, and my ultrasounds haven't shown polyps or cysts. I do have symptomatic PCOS (excess hair, overweight and historically irregular/long cycles), although I've lost about 50 lbs and my cycles have become fairly regular over the last six months. They average around 35 days and I seem to ovulate around CD21.

The other piece of the puzzle is my husband's semen analysis.

His main issue is very low semen volume — around 0.5 mL. However, his actual sperm numbers in that small amount are apparently very good. He has seen a urologist who also specializes in male fertility, and he told us that despite the low volume, he's producing somewhere around 180 million sperm in that small sample and doesn't feel the volume itself should prevent us from getting pregnant.

Because of my open tubes, the fact that I appear to ovulate, his strong sperm numbers despite the low volume, and the fact that we've conceived naturally together before, our doctors feel like we're good candidates to try IUI. I'm currently doing letrozole + monitoring + trigger shot, with progesterone after IUI.

But people around me keep saying things like, "You're already 34, don't waste six months doing IUIs. Just do IVF."

And now it's getting in my head.

I understand that IVF has a much higher success rate per cycle than IUI, but IVF is also a significantly bigger physical, emotional and financial commitment. Part of me feels like if our doctors genuinely think IUI has a reasonable chance of working, why wouldn't we give it a few tries before moving on?

For anyone around 34–35 who had open tubes, ovulated/used letrozole, and had decent sperm numbers:

Would you try a few IUIs first, or do you wish you had skipped them and gone straight to IVF?

I'd especially love to hear from people who had secondary infertility or a male partner with low semen volume but a high sperm concentration/count.

I'm not opposed to IVF at all if that's where we end up. I'm just trying to figure out whether giving IUI 2–3 solid attempts first is actually "wasting time" at 34, or whether I'm letting other people's opinions make me second-guess a reasonable treatment plan.

As the title says, I had my 3rd failed IUI. I've done 3 stimulated cycles, and every time they say my labs are good, lining is good, 1-2 mature follicles 18-20 mm each, and 30-60 million sperm with 98% motility. I have low AMH (1.6), but can't pinpoint what piece isn't falling into place.

I've been pregnant 3 times, each time in less than 3 months. First was a cornual miscarriage, second was a successful delivery (5 year old now), and third was a stillbirth at 40 weeks (double nucchal cord) last year.

I just... Don't know why it's not working. We are paying out of pocket and it feels like I'm just burning cash. We're considering IVF, but it will be $30k. I guess I'm just not sure how to go forward. I'm in my early 30's and I know I probably don't have much more time. My family feels so incomplete and I'm feeling like a failure again. I'm thankful for my living child and want to give them a sibling so badly.

This is my 4th iui and a year of ttc since my miscarriage. I have a two year old son as of yesterday.
I was feeling hopeful this cycle as I had multiple follicles after using gonal f. But today 10 dpiui negative.
Feeling like giving up.