SA result questions

Hey girls. We are going for the SA results (FINALLY!! UGH!) tomorrow morning. I think they did the Kruger test but I don't know. Didn't ask :) Anyway, what do I need to be looking for? What is nromal in the diferent ares. I don't wanna sit there and have her tell me that the results are borderline when they are fine. She is doing the IVF push and I don't wanna give her any more ammo...So, what do you guys know about the numbers and stuff :)

Thanks - Jen

[mrsy2007]

The Kruger scale is for morphology, which indicates the percentage of normally shaped sperm.  I think it depends on the lab what is normal and what is abnormal.  Ours considers anything above 10% normal.  There is motility, which is the percentage of sperm that are able to swim normally.  Above 50% is normal.  Then there is count.  And I believe anything over 40 mil/mL is normal, at least for our lab.  You will be able to Google your results anyway to find out whether or not they are normal.  And I would not move forward on anything without doing a second SA at least a month later.  We did, and DH has severe OAT, which means he has 0 morph, poor swimmers, and low count.  The second SA will confirm whether or not there is an ongoing probelm.

I hope that helps!

[scienceteacher79]

Thanks - DH had a SA done about a year ago and it was fine. They just did a normal SA, not a Kruger. I think the RE had a kruger done this time. Guess I will find out tomrrow - just want to go in with enough knowledge to know if she is bull-crapping me :) You know, exaggerating just a bit to push us over the edge to IVF when it isn't nessasary.