Hi there, I'm 35 and TTC baby no 1, we've been trying most months for well over a year now and still had no luck. I've been sporadically using OPDs and have a cycle app and have been fairly accurate with it, or so I hope.
Because we had been trying for a while, we went to doc's and she ran initial tests on us, the OH had a sperm test and I had blood tests and a ovarian scan done. My scan and bloods all came back normal but frustratingly the husbands sperm test came back with low motility so she referred us to a fertility specialist.
Our first appointment with the fertility specialist husband had done a second sperm test and we got the results back, motility was still appallingly low around 6%. I was totally devastated but tried not to let on too much to OH.
So anyway our fertility consultant told us that hubby should take plenty of zinc and selenium and also advised that L-Carnitine can be helpful to boost motility. He recommended he take Wellman and I got referred for more bloods and another scan.
Second appt we got told all my bloods were normal, my scan was normal and hubby's sperm test came back with improved results 29% motility now so much better. So looks like the Wellman must have had a positive effect or maybe it was just time.
Our consultant said I should go for a HSG scan just to check I didn't have any blocked tubes or scarring or anything like that, which I find unlikely considering I have never had any probs with my periods and have always ovulated regularly but I will go with it, if we need to do it to get our miracle baby.
The consultant said with results like that we could possibly even be looking at getting pregnant naturally and we are booked to go back and see him in May after I have done my HSG, so I guess we will find out for sure what he says then.
We've been trying this month, we did it about 4 times prior to and including the day of when I think I O'd, so hope that was enough to have caught it. I can't say I feel positive but I am hopeful. I must confess I am starting to feel more than a little obsessed by this whole TTC thang as time seems to tick by. Biological clock much?
Anyway, sorry for the long ramble but I've been a lurker on the conception forum for a little while now and though I'd join in the fun today;)
Good luck to you all and hope you ( and I) all get our BFPs this month waves and sprinkles baby dust around