meetfellow.com new kids on the block: my review

someone sent me this link a few days ago and it looks like there is a new company in town!!! super cool

the brand: good

i look the look and fellow its simple and clean. why does everyone brand want to have a generic black guy or ambiguous guy in their marketing? is this some new branding agency thing? i dont get it, is this really what they think we look like? i dont hang out on the tub when masturbating lolllll

process: slow

it seems slower than other brands ive seen in this space. why 10 days?? every other company that does sperm testing (legacy, sppare.me, yo, even cryochoice) are within a week, and yo is instantaneous.

the kit: good

but i like the way the it is designed, it looks simple and easy to use

the price: okay

theyre cheaper than sppare.me once you factor in morphology

theyre more expensive than legacy

theyre way cheaper than cryochoice

overall price point seems okay

the service: for doctors?

this was interesting to me, seems like they are really focusing on the service for doctors which makes sense, i havent seen anyone else do that

CryoChoice: what do you think?

i read about CryoChoice seriously for the first time in a daily beast article and so i checked out their website. honestly they look fine but WHAT IS UP WITH THIS PHOTO!!!

super creepy…….

anyway so here are my thoughts:

-their pricing is $595, which is higher than sppare.me, legacy, dadi or yo by FAR

-good customer service, they were responsive when i wrote in and they claim to have seven days a week, i like that

-they have morphology as an ADDITIONAL service for $100, so actually you’re paying $695 for a full semen analysis (sppare.me also does this; legacy includes morphology; dadi only does volume and count; yo only tests count)

-annual storage is $149 so about the same as other companies

-so overall i guess it’s not clear to me why i would pick them over any of the other companies i wrote about it. but if you work at cryochoice hit me up i’d love to try your service! maybe im missing something?

legacy vs dadi vs sppare.me sperm analysis

ok so i figured i might as well do a round-up of my thought on sperm ANALYSIS for anyone else who is going through a similar journey! i realized i am not alone – you have millions of couples trying to have kids and — NEWS FLASH — men are 50% of the equation for hetero couples! so everyone should be testing their sperm.

now of course it depends what you are looking for, but overall, legacy was the clear winner for me. if you have any other recommendations for companies to try please send them my way, i know there are a few like fairfax cryobank or cryochoice that i didn’t try but i did try legacy, sppare.me, dadi, and yo.

i’ll start by talking about the at-home sperm analysis options. i’ll do a separate post on at-home sperm freezing. note: the prices below are not totally comprehensive, so check out the full reviews for the details.

Legacy: https://spermfreezing.home.blog/2019/12/01/legacy/

Sppare.me: https://spermfreezing.home.blog/2019/11/10/sppareme/

Dadi: https://spermfreezing.home.blog/2019/11/24/dadikit/

Yo: https://spermfreezing.home.blog/2019/10/27/trying-a-test-at-home-yo/

Legacy

195

Best for analysis & freezing

Sparre.me

250

Good for analysis & freezing

Dadi

199

Good for basic analysis & freezing

Best for a basic analysis

For analysis:

#1: Legacy – as detailed as getting your analysis at a clinic
includes volume, count, concentration, motility, morphology
includes lifestyle recommendations tailored to you

#2: Yo! – basic analysis but cheap and fast
includes count & concentration

#3: Sppare.me – also detailed, but you can’t get analysis done separately
includes volume, count, concentration, motility, and (optional for +$100) morphology
you can’t do analysis separately and requires an std test

#4: Dadikit – basic analysis, can’t get analysis done separately
includes volume, count, concentration
you can’t do analysis separately, and there is a fee to cancel storage

experience 2: trying a test at home (Yo!)

so i figured, ok, are there any options that i can do at home or from home? this seems to be a big trend with all the genetic testing, hormone testing, all the hims ads im seeing.. so I googled ‘sperm testing at home’

i did some research and i found a couple of companies that i liked. there was one called ‘spermcheck’ that seemed kind of shady. my favourite was a company called YO! loved the name!! here’s the site: https://www.yospermtest.com/

i was a little weirded out about the fact that you have to attach something to your phone and then analyze your sperm, but they promised that i wasn’t going to have sperm all over my phone.

they said it wasn’t compatible with my iphone X max but it does work on a regular iphone x which was fine since i still had my old one.

it cost me $75 including shipping and taxes

overall:

-the experience was generally not bad. they have clear instructions for what to do although i kept feeling worried that i was going to spill everything everywhere!!

-the results were ok but not super useful. i did not feel like i really got a fertility test.

-they show you a video of your sperm is cool but… idk, whats the point? its not really telling me anything

pros:

-cheap

-although it took a few days to ship, i was able to do it at home

-straightforward

-you get a video of your sperm

cons:

-did not feel like a really good analysis, it felt shallow… so whats the point?

-this is stupid but i realized afterwards that i (obviously) can’t freeze my sperm if i’m using an at home test like yo… so not that useful in the end!

-you have to attach a device to your phone (not that big a deal)

this was the box i received. im not able to rotate the image but you get the picture!