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Hi all,
My husband has done SA yesterday, I just called to know the result and told me its bad and I think as i understood that there is no sperm
I am devasted ! I havent told my husband yet as we are at work.
But could there be anything wrong while taking the sample that caused this result??
I am feeling so low right now
Updated:
I called again to make sure I heard correctly, and yes they said No sperm count
I wont have a baby????
[Modified by: _RiRi_ on 23 May 2010 13:10:20 ]
My husband has done SA yesterday, I just called to know the result and told me its bad and I think as i understood that there is no sperm
I am devasted ! I havent told my husband yet as we are at work.But could there be anything wrong while taking the sample that caused this result??
I am feeling so low right now
Updated:
I called again to make sure I heard correctly, and yes they said No sperm count
I wont have a baby????
[Modified by: _RiRi_ on 23 May 2010 13:10:20 ]
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If all else fails, then it is often possible to surgicaly remove sperm and the inject the sperm into your egg (ICSI, a form of IVF). I beleive Mrs Pootle's husband had no sperm when she was going for IVF/ICSI but he had already had some removed - and her baby is due next month! My husband also had poor quality sperm and I am due in August after ICSI.
Try not to give up hope, although I'm sure it will take some time to come to terms with this news.
Best of luck x
thanks alot for the positive replies.
It was a specilist and I already had a genital ulcer treated just recently (2 weeks) so I though that the problem was from me.
I have told him today and he tried to joke about it, i think he is trying to make me feel better and vice versa, i tam trying too. I am not sure if he fully understands what it means.
Most likly we would have to do another test. I hope there was some faulty .
Thanks girls for the support and congrats on ur pregnancies ... I wish u all the best too.
[Modified by: _RiRi_ on May 23, 2010 06:24 PM]
Sorry you're hubby's SA wasn't good.
TBD was right that my hubby' had no sperm in his SA at our local hospital. He'd had a cyst in his semen vesicle (inside the testicle) about 8 years before whisch was removed. He then kept getting infections so had a vasectomy on that side but was told he's still be able to conceive naturally.
Unfortunately that was never the case as even back then he showed signs of no or a few sperm.
Anyway having researched and spoken to an embryologist we referred ourselves to Northampton care fertility clinic. They're closest to us and specialise in male infertility. They did another SA for hubby and found some sperm!!! Not many but some! They asked him to have a karyoptype test done (blood test) to check for Kleinfelters symdrome (a genetic condition whre the man has an extra X chromosome) as that could be a cause for male infertility. the man's usually tall and not very hairy, My hubby's not that tall and a hairy beast! They can also look at translocations (where genes switch from one chromosome to another) again that can cause fertilty problems in males.
Please, please check out the success rates of your fertility clinic. We went convinced hubby had no sperm and they found some!
He did have accupuncture and the accupuncture lady put him on a course of chinese mediation. I wasn't happy about this as our fertility clinic have had failures in fertilisation which they've put down to dodgy chinese medication!!
Got to go but will conitnue later.....
After acupuncture and 3 weeks of chinese medication he did another sample and big difference in numbers (but still less than a million) but they were able to freeze 7 vials. I made him stop the chinese medication after as I was worried about possible liver or kidney damage (which can happen in dodgy chinese medication)
A month later we were ready for egg collection and on the day.... No sperm! 2 samples no sperm. It was really awful. We had to wait to see if the frozen sperm had survived and from 10 mature eggs, 8 fertilised!!! 4 embryos made it to a good grade 2 two days later, 2 placed in me, 2 in the freezer. Our baby's due in 4 weeks!!!
This time last year we'd just found out hubby had no sperm and we couldn't have felt any lower.
I do think the fact I have a regular cycle and predictor kits showed I was ovulating and I used to be quite fit and healthy helped. I was 36 when I started ICSI so probably older than you?
If they can't find any sperm then sometimes they might find healthy sperm doing a fine needle aspiration into the testicle..... Or if there are sperm that look dead in the semen there's some osmosis test (?) that might show they're actually alive...... Or there has been success after biopsy of the testes lining using immature sperm. Finally there's always donor sperm.
Hopefully your hubby's next SA will be absolutely fine but if not there are options out there.
Good luck, your hubby seems to be taking it a lot better than when my hubby found out.
xxxx
PS Hi TBD hope you're having an easier time with your pregnancy now after your scares from earlier on. I finished work today, yippee!!! I finally look pregnant and not just lardy!
Your post really helped me a lot, we haven't been to Drs yet but are gping soon. My DH is positive as he says that doesn't mean anything yet.
I am 23 and he is 29. I have normal cycles and I think I am ovulating, my 21 days blood is due today.
I hope everything goes fine and they do find sperms.
Thanks girls, I am trying to relax ... as for the past days I can't stop crying.
You're very welcome it's a horrible position to be in.....
I can't believe how well your hubby's taking it and he's definitely got the right attitude
Our GP was clueless and useless with male infertility. Make sure you take a list of questions with you. I'd probably want to know whether you're entitled to fertility treatment under the NHS (depending on which PCT your with there will be different criteria). Also if you do go down the ICSI route via NHS which clinics your PCT uses then check their success rates!
You are very young and plenty of time for you to have babies. It's just working out how they're going to get the sperm there!
To be honest finding out why we hadn't conceived helped me, I think couples with unexplained fertility is a much more stressful position to be in...
Hang on in there,
Alison x
PS if you do go down the ICSI route you will need proof you're immune to Hep B, HepC, rubella, smear test within the year and HIV. Fertility clinics charge for these tests but your GP should do them for free!
I have went to Dr today, actually there were occasional dead sperm cells found (but all dead), so the Dr told us this is a really good sign that DH can produce sperms. She told DH that he has to go to male fertility Dr that will do tests to see if anything is wrong.
The problem is I know DH was taking some sort of medication to lose weight but this drug is actually banned!! but he won't listen to me and actually was denying it. I think it may be a reason. I am not sure.
She also told us to re-do SA after 2 months to see if any improvements or we can go with ICSI from now. In both cases she believes it will be ICSI.
Btw, i am not from UK and I am going to a private clinic so I will be paying, i am not sure if it can be done through our free hospital. As I have heard from girls here that they have to wait for 1yr, in here we dont hv to wait.
I am from Kuwait, it is near to Dubai, if you heard of dubai
I had no idea you were abroad!
I've been to Dubai airport years ago when I went to the Maldives.
No idea how the fertility clinics work there but we paid privately for our ICSI so hopefully things will progress quite quickly for you.
That is really positive they've found some signs of sperm but your hubby is an idiot if he's taking a banned drug!!! My hubby's convinced the warfarin he's been on for years as caused his dodgy/non existent at times sperm.
If you do end up having ICSI see if they can freeze some sperm beforehand to take the pressure off on the day!
Will keep an eye out for you and lots and lots of success,
Alison x
[Modified by: Mrs Pootle on May 26, 2010 07:32 AM]