erica, yes it is a sanity reducing time. Nothing quite like cycling to make you lose your mind. The duel influence of excitement and devastating fear...my god, it's torture!! 
Blue, 5 fertilising out of 6 is pretty fantastic! Embrace the mantra "quality over quantity"! getting 16 eggs and then at the next update youre down to five is hard to get your head around, but I'm serious about quality. I mean nearly all of the mature eggs fertilised! Let us know your next update. It's really hard these few days. I think it's the most stressful time!
Sarah, I'm sorry I'm not much help, but I'll be interested in what your clinic has to say.
Where are all the other hags up to?
Our update is, that we are abandoning our last NHS cycle. We received one of their vague infamous letters that says they will only do SSR by biopsy method, not by tesa and will only do it before egg collection and freeze it. WT? This is exactly why it went wrong last time and the exact opposite that we had all agreed we would go forward with. We just wanted the simplest procedure that causes the least damage and to do it fresh on the day. The amount of distress and emotional pain we have gone through at this clinic has been so damaging, we just can't go through it again. Besides the fact we have lost faith in their general competency i.e. They want to pursue a method that we just proved to have a poor outcome (freezing), yet they want to use a method that is much more destructive (biopsy), and in our case unnecessary (obstructive azoospermia and normal spermatogenesis). Cannot figure out their logic, nor can I understand their changing of plans without explanation and at the same time giving a frosty and hostile front. Bewildered would be the word.
So....onwards and upwards! Looking at clinics that are good with mfi issues. I had to rule out reprofit as they only do tese (biopsy) and don't do tesa (needle aspiration) which I was a little surprised about. So far serum in Greece is a front runner. From emails I've had, they seem to make sense in their approach to SSR. They are all over immune stuff too, so I want to throw everything at it before we do another round. By that, I mean, testing. I want to see if in fact I have any immune issues that need treating, have I been using the right treatments, have I been over treating etc?? Mr place wants to check his hormone levels and see how much damage as been done so far and get an idea about how many more procedures he'd be able to go through. At the moment, think somewhere between 2 and 4 more max. But only if a tesa. If he has a biopsy, that would be the end of the road biologically for us (have been introducing the idea of donor sperm...far out this is tricky ground!!!) This is why it's so important to get it right! So looking at maybe cycling in January. This should also give mr place 6months since last tesa, so sperm production should be back to normal and risk of testicular failure lessened (something our current clinic never mentioned or discussed :(
It's such a shame, we waited for two years and were so excited to get started with them. I never dreamed it would turn out like this. This is the last thing I want. I could never have imagined that it got so so bad. So bad that we would forgo a fresh round, SSR and two possible fet! I mean, it has to be pretty bad to do that!