10 day abstainance

[Nakijo]

If my partner abstained for 10 days before until egg retrieval, can his sperm still be visible for IVF

[Nabsal]

no don’t that long. Sample should be only 2 or 3 days obstained one otherwise fregmentation will be too high and you won’t get any good or viable embryo.best of luck

[Nakijo in reply to Nabsal]

Thanks for the response

[JA-fnuk Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

As 1st post says short periods of abstinence 2/3 days are thought to be more beneficial than long periods

Take care

Janet-Partner

[Nakijo in reply to JA-fnuk]

Thanks for the response

[ellebee123123123]

I had a FS who said one day of abstinance and both these cycles resulted in our best number of embryos (note, we got two each time instead of 1). All other cycles to date have produced only 1 embryo.

This time we're doing 1.5 days.

No expert but 10 days sounds like it's far too long, as I understand they want it to be semi regular so all the old sperm is cleared out.

[Nakijo in reply to ellebee123123123]

Thanks for the reply