Can I actually get pregnant again?

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Dh and I are 36 (just turned) and have been ttc for 10 cycles but they’ve been fraught with difficulties, one cycle I had a grumbling appendix in the tww so landed in hospital (that cycle down the loo) and another cellulitis from a bug bite and back in hospital on IV antibiotics, that cycle down the loo too and then also needing a root canal.

so it’s been nightmarish and I’m starting to really worry.

we’re both a normal bmi, don’t smoke don’t drink.

dh had a semen analysis which showed total motile sperm if 18.6m slightly below 20m which is preferable. Concentration was 27m and progressive motility 22% morphology 5%.

he’s started on a supplement regime to improve his motility. No heat sources near the swimmers

me, normal lh and fsh ratio , normal estradiol, no uterine abnormalities and amh of 37 (which I was told was very high) no PCOS features, mild adenymosis

this would be our third child, existing children are 6 and 3

Keep trying. Mucinex?

Have you read 'it starts with the egg' by Rebecca Fett? It has some really useful information about supplements which might help.

This cycle I used -

Fertility acupuncture weekly
Mucinex
Preseed
Timing sex around ovulation (3 days over fertile window) - used OPK and tracked ovulation with CM
Took Vitex, DHEA, DHA, Vitamin D, Co-enzyme Q10, Probiotics, Pregnacare max conception, Iron with Vitamin C, Aspirin 75mcg, Acai berry supplements
Tumeric tea once per day
Used Dr Mindys book ‘fast like a girl’ down to the letter for foods throughout cycle
Seed cycling
Light yoga daily

I am 38; no children.
I have a BFP at 10/11 DPO
I do not know which of the above worked but it did!

Just reading back your post - have you had lots of Antibiotics this year? There is more evidence to suggest a lack of good bacteria - a good microbiome can be a cause of infertility and patients need >95% of lactobacilli in their vaginal tract / endometrial lining to support a pregnancy. If you have had antibiotics it can disrupt this for as long as 12 months or so.

one course back in October and then the iv ones followed up by another course to kill the infection which was so bad I could barely walk.

ive got some pro biotics I can take?

you’ve mentioned a few things I’ve not heard of, what’s mucinex? and seed cycling?

I’m taking ubiquinol, omega 3 (which is dhea) vit c, folic acid, vit d and e and zinc and in the second phase of my cycle I take p5p and magnesium. I also take 1000mg metformin, as it helped balance my lh and fsh, I was taking 500mg until march and I was ovulating cd 26, now it’s cd18. I was taking myo inositol but I think it was too many insulin sensitisors and it dulled my LH spike

I’m iffy on adding vitex because my LH and fsh, my LH was like 1.9:1 before upping to 1000mg of met

Ps congratulations! I’m so so pleased for you :)