I've always been a tiny bit concerned about hubs's SA results showing his pH to be at 8.0. Yes, it is within the "normal" range (7.2 - 8.0), but I worried that it was on the high end of normal. The doctors haven't been concerned with it. But you know how it is being an IFer, questioning everything!
I won't bore you with the details of how I found this, but take a look:
http://www.andrologyjournal.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/330
It's a conversation among a bunch of doctors discussing the usefulness of measuring semen pH in SA, and even more interesting (I thought) - that the "normal" range is pretty arbitrary. I don't necessarily agree with everything they say, but overall it makes sense. And it makes me feel a lot better about hubs's results!
Oh my gosh! Lol! A few months ago when I was going to my old re I had the same questions! Dh had done a SA back in February 2009 and we were given the results and everything was in the "normal" range. But I kept thinking well is there a low and high end to normal? Ugh it drove me insane. Now that we've switched insurance I gave her the paper, she looked at it for 5 seconds and said "no, he's fine". And I'm thinking wth?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, how funny that we are going through and thinking the same things. Well not funny, but you know what i mean.
I don't understand how doctors are so "lenient" on sperm issues. I used to get so frustrated that they would say my husband's sperm morophology was low and I had 2 m/c yet they said that wasn't the probelm. But, they could never figure out what the problem was.
ReplyDeleteI wish they work on solving the problem instead of always suggesting IVF.
DH had a high PH as well, the urologist just put him on a antibiotic and it went down. Could you maybe try that?
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