“Women who are or may potentially be pregnant must not use PROPECIA and should not handle crushed or broken PROPECIA tablets because the active ingredient may cause abnormalities of a male baby's sex organs. If a woman who is pregnant comes into contact with the active ingredient in PROPECIA, a doctor should be consulted. PROPECIA tablets are coated and will prevent contact with the active ingredient during normal handling, provided that the tablets are not broken or crushed.
//www.healthline.com/health/sperm-morphology Remember this statistic which is that 95% of couples who want to conceive eventually do. And that it takes the average couple at least a year to do so. So, hang in there.
Several techniques have been described to evaluate sperm morphology. Sperm are classified into normal-oval shaped, tapered, amorphous, duplicated and immature. Normal spermatozoid must have an oval form with smooth contour, acrosomal cap encompassing 40-70% of head, no abnormalities of midpiece, or tail and no cytoplasmic vacuoles of more than half of the sperm head. Head size is 5-6m M x 2.5-3.5m M.
Several techniques have been described to evaluate sperm morphology. Sperm are classified into normal-oval shaped, tapered, amorphous, duplicated and immature. Normal spermatozoid must have an oval form with smooth contour, acrosomal cap encompassing 40-70% of head, no abnormalities of midpiece, or tail and no cytoplasmic vacuoles of more than half of the sperm head. Head size is 5-6m M x 2.5-3.5m M.
My DH and I just completed our first IVF with ICSI. He had 100% abnormal sperm morphology. We had 7 eggs fertilize and transferred 2 which had formed blastocysts. Our blood test is on May 11th and I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Best of luck to you!
I just wanted to suggest starting him on 1000 mg of vitamin c and a multi vitamin. My DH has SA issues and I did that and his count, morphology and motility improved. Did you ask about ICSI?
Morphology indicates the amount of sperm that were the correct shape, ie:a normal healthy sperm. Not a sperm with two heads or two tails or sperm with issues in the midpiece and tail, as those aren't healthy sperm. My DH's morphology was 11% and I was told that 11% was still a good number.
16 million/ml is on the low side, and over half of those are swimming and doing what they're supposed to.
NORMAL SPERM: 15 %
SPERM-MIDPIECE TAIL: 26 %
SPERM HEAD ABNORMALITIES: 57 %
SPERM IMMATURE FORMS: 2 %
Last month, we finally decided to go for a fertility specialist and when they performed the morphology test
his numbers came out to be :
Normal Forms 0 %
Head Defects 100 %
Tail Defects 0 %
This seems to be a different method of testing called the Tygerberg Strict Morphology.
Hello....they said that the morphology of my DH sperm was borderline at where they'd like it to be.....and I seem to recall it being about 8% or something like that. When we did IVF they fertilized half the eggs ISCI and half "au natural" (however they normally do it with IVF). So any who on the ISCI side 72% eggs fertilzed and 90%+ on the au natural side fertilized. Sometimes, I just don't know that these docs know what they're talking about!
My DH had a 2 of sa done and they both revealed a major problem with the morphology of his sperm. My point is sperm must fluctuate a fair bit as he must have been fine when we conceived our daughter.
I have severe problems with my sperm morphology. My semen analysis results are 0-1% morphology. To me it is told that ICSI could be succesful even with abnormal sperms. Have anybody experience about that?
So, I looked at the results and interpreted them myself (and I am not an MD) and his sperm count was normal, but the sperm morphology was quite low. Of course, I freaked out because we are now trying to conceive. When my husband went to a follow-up appointment, the doctor told my husband that his wife (me!) shouldn't worry and that we will have no troubles conceiving. However, when I googled sperm morphology, it seemed like this can be a bad thing.
Could you elaborate?
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