Ivf w male factor infertility
Hello! I know everyone’s ivf experiences are vastly different and I’ve been scouring the internet to find a little more information and haven’t had much luck. But I’m going to try and explain this the best I can. I am 23 year old female and my husband is 25. We got married in the summer of 2023. We started ttc right after around August of 2024 after no luck I started to think something was wrong. My cycles have always been normal and I was using opk to track my ovulation. After several months of nothing I ordered a sperm check test on Amazon. My husband used it and it just didn’t do anything at all so basically inconclusive. At that point I told him that we should probably get him scheduled with a urologist and I also talked with his mom a little bit. She did mention when he was born he had an underfunded testicle that was fixed as an infant and the dr stated everything should be fine. We saw a urologist and he did a sperm analysis and karotype testing and we found out he is 47,xxy and sperm analysis came back with a sperm count of about 250,000 per ml. So they diagnosed him with klinefelters syndrome but they said that it is very good that he does have sperm in ejaculate because a lot of males with klinefelters don’t. The dr then recommended us to find a reproductive endocrinologist to pursue ivf stating our chances of conceiving on our own would be low. We had to hold off on treatment until I could find a job with ivf coverage. I found a job in may 2025 and then started with treatments in August of 2025. I had stims done, then egg retrieval. They collected 32 eggs and we had 4 embryos that came back graded well we didn’t get pgta testing done bc my insurance wouldn’t approve it. We had 1 4aa, 2 4ab, 6ba. We did a transfer in October that was a medicated cycle and it failed, November medicated cycle that failed and December natural modified that failed. We have the 6ba remaining. After 3 failed transfers I wanted to take a break. We also lost my nephew to suicide at the end of December so I was just completely devestated. I started taking Zoloft the beginning of January 2026 and now it’s may 2026. I have lost quite a bit of weight since the beginning of the year. I think a lot of it was stress, grief and just working a lot to stay busy. I went from 252 to 197. My husband has been trying to encourage me to contact the clinic and kind of check in which I feel ready but I’m still hesitant because it’s a lot. I did reach out and ask to get an appointment to check in/ follow up on where we should go from here. I also asked if they would be able to submit a request to my insurance to cover pgta for medical necessity since we’ve had 3 failed transfers and my husbands klinefelters diagnoses. Which they did approve. So I guess my question is with our 6ba untested should we just transfer that one to see what happens or should we go through another retrieval and have new embryos tested and go from there. Has anyone else had experience with fails with untested then success with pgta tested? I have no fertility issues. I have regular periods, ovulate normally all the testing the clinic has done on me has been normal. I guess I don’t really know what I’m asking for I’ve tried looking in a lot of groups if anyone has been in a similar situation but I haven’t really found much. Cost really isn’t an issue for us as my insurance coverage is amazing. We only ended up paying 900$ out of pocket last year for everything and that was just storage fees. I’m very grateful for having a job that provides this kind of coverage but I’m just wanting to see if anyone has any input that could be helpful. Thanks so much.