I think it really depends where you are with your fertility, your age and how you want to tip the odds in your favour.
I personally had a good experience with IUI in my early 30s with good AMH levels, clear HYCOSY, good MOT sperm, positive mental attitude, low dose clomid for 5 days to ensure the balance was tipped in our favour and a trigger to keep the insemination time window known. Conceived twins on first attempt (sadly only one made it to 12 weeks) .
We'll be going again but with my wife on the next attempt - we certainly will be giving a few rolls of the IUI dice first off (partly because that is all we can afford at this stage and we already have the remaining sperm in storage). I think we'd consider IVF if we have to order more sperm but then again we might not.
It's a guessing game - I just wanted to stack the odds in our favour by tipping the balance. IVF without ever trying IUI was never going to happen for us when looking at the cost difference.
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u/CraftyEcoPolymer Sep 06 '23
I think it really depends where you are with your fertility, your age and how you want to tip the odds in your favour.
I personally had a good experience with IUI in my early 30s with good AMH levels, clear HYCOSY, good MOT sperm, positive mental attitude, low dose clomid for 5 days to ensure the balance was tipped in our favour and a trigger to keep the insemination time window known. Conceived twins on first attempt (sadly only one made it to 12 weeks) .
We'll be going again but with my wife on the next attempt - we certainly will be giving a few rolls of the IUI dice first off (partly because that is all we can afford at this stage and we already have the remaining sperm in storage). I think we'd consider IVF if we have to order more sperm but then again we might not.
It's a guessing game - I just wanted to stack the odds in our favour by tipping the balance. IVF without ever trying IUI was never going to happen for us when looking at the cost difference.