Did you try IUI before going to IVF?

[happykath]

Hi, my husband and I have had recommended that we proceed straight to IVF based on our fertility tests. I have low AMH/high FSH but do not have DOR yet and am otherwise healthy. Our OBGYN referred us to a fertility clinic after my results, and we discovered that my husband has slight morphology issues and high DNA frag. Since then, we've felt like we are on a conveyor belt toward IVF/ICSI. When we inquired about potentially trying IUI, we were told we were not candidates. We've only been trying for a year, and are both 31. Does anyone have any experience with this--ie being told to go straight to IVF? Did you elect to try IUI? Would you recommend it? Really just looking for any advice.

How old are you OP as often that's a factor?

The issue is that IUI has much lower success rates and you have to factor in at least 10 rounds of IUI to have the same success as one cycle of IVF so it's just not worth doing for most couples?

Yes my partner and I did 2 rounds of IUI before proceeding to IVF. I felt the opposite, I wanted to go straight to IVF but my Dr suggested IUI first because it's much less invasive. It didn't work for us (one failed round, one ended with a miscarriage).

As the other poster said there is a much lower chance of success with IUI than with IVF.

We didn't seriously consider it as we were using donor sperm and the cost of that combined with lower success rate for iui meant ivf was likely more cost effective and faster.

As far as I am aware, your DHs sperm has to be of a certain quality / quantity for them to consider you for IUI. So if after analysing the speak he hasn't met that criteria, than naturally they would skip that step for you. Do you know if they have done thins? I am not 100% sure on the sperm figures / ml. so I'd rather not say something stupid.

Sperm** not Speak

I'm considering similar OP, although my choice is between IUI or just trying naturally for 3 more months with letrozol or go for IVF. My fertility doctor said IUI has a 25% success rate. That sounds too high and I'm not sure if he meant per cycle. I also have a good amh so maybe that's why. We only tried for 6 months before I found out I needed surgery for a fibroid that was pretty much certainly impacting my fertility due to it's position so we feel we barely tried. The risk is any delay for us might mean more issues with a fibroid growing back.

How successful is IUI. Does anyone know as 25% seems high!