Relaxing Doesn't Make Babies

Sweat, Percentages and Lost Sperm

December 7, 2006 — 8:56 am

Okay, I’ve really had quite enough of this waking up drenched in sweat thing. And I can’t even blame it on the clomid – it’s been happening for months now. *sigh* Maybe it’s because of our heavy winter blanket. But yet, I go from cold and snuggled in to hot and sweating and throwing the covers off, then ten minutes later I’m cold again. I just hate the feeling of waking up all hot and sweaty. Yick.

Searching through about a dozen medical journal articles and a number of web sites resulted in a rather wide range of statistics. Basically the odds of success are reported to be just under 6% and as high as 26% per cycle. The low statistics are with one follicle, while multiple follicles resulted in as high 26% success. Another influencing factor is sperm count. Higher sperm counts increase the odds of success; however, there was little difference between success with good-average counts and those with high counts. The overall success rate seems to be between 15-20% per cycle, judging from the articles which will be abstracted below. The rate of multiple gestation pregnancies is 23-30%.
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I’ve found this same little blurb on about 5 different websites – and more still with the same statistics and slightly different wording.

Well we have multiple follicles alright. But still only 26%? Blah. What I really want to see is a study done taking into account different situations: woman’s age, sperm count, number of follicles, diagnosis, etc. I want to know what my predicted success rate is – or at least the success rates for people like me.

I’ve been telling Den the last few days that now his sperm have no excuse for not reaching the egg. I told him that if they don’t it’s all his fault -they’re his little men. I sighed and said, “They’re probably all swimming in circles because there’s no directions posted in my uterus.”

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