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Hi all,

Can anyone recommend some supplements, husband has 1% morphology and have been told IVF is our next step, he’s already taking proceive for men, is there anything else he should take? And any recommendations on supplements for me that is ok to take whilst taking medication for under active thyroid. Xx

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Hello, unfortunately sperm morphology can’t be improved with supplements, but if he has good count and you’re doing ICSI it doesn’t really matter (unless there is DNA fragmentation but you’ll need a test for that). Have a chat with your dr re supplements for you, you could take ubiquinol that ‘should’ improve egg quality (but there’s not a lot of evidence of that), folic acid, omega 3 and vitamin D3. Good luck hun 🍀🤞🏻❤️

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ChloeL934 in reply to ToughCOOKIE78

Everything else, with the count etc is good. Thank you xxx

My partner was the same count was fine but morphology started at 1% improved to 2% on our last round both times we had icsi there is also my age and egg qualitya factor so on dhea and cq10- partner had some dna fragmentation with his dna test we did after the 2nd round, Our clinic have kept him on impryl since last year he also takes omega 3. Some of the things our clinic said was it could be lifestyle, may be worth looking at that? partners cut down the booze exercised more and we eating better for the last 4 months he goes for a second dna frag test in a few weeks before we get an idea for our 2l3rd cycle. I can update you to see if that worked if you like as we are all in this together as warriors leaving no stone unturned! ❤X

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Rain415

Hi Chole

My husbands morphology has always ranged from 2-3% last analysis for our ivf was 4.5% he changed diet, stopped drinking and took procieve max. His count more than doubled but morphology only went up very slightly. Annoyingly we have never been recommended anything for morphology just to increase count. Has he been to see an urologist? My husband was referred and they found a large varicocele he is on the waiting list for surgery. Surgeon seems to think this will help all parameters but our consultant doesnt have that much hope and recommended ivf. I've noticed differing opinions with consultants and trying to increase sperm parameters

🙈 x

My husband has 1% too. We conceived naturally 4 years ago and have just got a positive on our second round / FET of ICSI. It can happen. My only thing I did differently was acupuncture which I would massively recommend. Good luck xxx

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