Dealing with azoospermia?

[loobylou_01]

I haven't updated on here for ages but just wanted to let u know about our 2nd miracle baby, Imogen who was born on 27th April. She was conceived following FET last August. We have been very lucky since the dark days of diagnosis. To all you ladies currently going through this nightmare, good luck and it is definitely worth all the heartache x x x

 

[Dancergirl]

That is wonderful news Loobylou! Congratulations!

 

[MrsG30]

Dancer girl- Were just about to sort the process with DS- next appointment is 2/7, we are using a known donor- just waiting on treatment plan. xx

 

[MoBaby]

Congrats!

 

[deafgal01]

Dancer- I'm hoping to use a known donor. Still have to do the required tests and stuff before we know for sure, but yeah back up plan would be use donor sperm from a sperm bank if that falls through.

By the way- congrats Loo- glad you have your little bundle of joy!

 

[MrsG30]

exactly the same plan here x

Dancer- I'm hoping to use a known donor. Still have to do the required tests and stuff before we know for sure, but yeah back up plan would be use donor sperm from a sperm bank if that falls through.

By the way- congrats Loo- glad you have your little bundle of joy!

 

[oldnavygirl]

exactly the same plan here x

Dancer- I'm hoping to use a known donor. Still have to do the required tests and stuff before we know for sure, but yeah back up plan would be use donor sperm from a sperm bank if that falls through.

By the way- congrats Loo- glad you have your little bundle of joy!

Us too -- we've just confirmed our known donor and it was a roller coaster trying to find him! Getting ready to try our first cycle in August!!

 

[melly2]

Well, here I am again. I was part of this forum in the past and was blessed with my miracle child thru IUI using donor sperm. Now I find myself starting the process all over again as we try to #2. Anyone else here using donor sperm? And no, I didn't go thru all the previous posts, too many to look thru. I am not sure if I am ready to start the emotional roller coaster that infertility brings.

Hello. My husband and I are seriously considering doing IUI with donor sperm starting in August. His count is simply too low after cancer. He is very open to the idea, but we're trying to figure out if this happens how or if to tell the family? That's really the hardest part for us.

 

[MadCatLady]

Hi! It sounds like there are a few plans afoot? Hope they all are successful! Is it more usual that known donors are used? Just wondering given that several posters on this site have that as their plan? DH and I have vaguely discussing DS and known/not known but not getting far Congrats Loobylou too!

 

[deafgal01]

Melly, I don't plan to tell many that we used donor. Less chance of kid finding out from others unless we tell the kid ourselves which we will in time. It is hard enough to digest so the fewer people who know, the better for us at this time.

 

[oldnavygirl]

Hi! It sounds like there are a few plans afoot? Hope they all are successful! Is it more usual that known donors are used? Just wondering given that several posters on this site have that as their plan? DH and I have vaguely discussing DS and known/not known but not getting far Congrats Loobylou too!

We had the same discussion, but we've decided to go with a known donor -- the process so far has been a lot better than we thought -- we haven't gotten to the actual AI part yet, that's planned for August, but finding him was an experience!

 

[MrsG30]

we wont be telling anyone other than the actual donor his wife and our parents, lik it was said above my views are the less people that know the better, not just or the childs sake but for my hubbys xxx

 

[rdleela]

Dancergirl and loobylou_01, THANK-YOU for coming back and posting! Hope-inspiring posts are always welcome and needed, to keep us focused on not giving up and coming out the other end with our baby(ies).

 

[melly2]

Dancergirl and loobylou_01, THANK-YOU for coming back and posting! Hope-inspiring posts are always welcome and needed, to keep us focused on not giving up and coming out the other end with our baby(ies).

Hello, I noticed in your signature that you are going to try IUI with 5 million. Our doctor said that we had to have at least 10 million. I guess you FS will allow you do it with 5 million? Just curious.

 

[rdleela]

Dancergirl and loobylou_01, THANK-YOU for coming back and posting! Hope-inspiring posts are always welcome and needed, to keep us focused on not giving up and coming out the other end with our baby(ies).

Hello, I noticed in your signature that you are going to try IUI with 5 million. Our doctor said that we had to have at least 10 million. I guess you FS will allow you do it with 5 million? Just curious.

Yep, he is going to allow us to try with 5 million, but he did tell us he'd prefer we get to 10 million. We have good motility, negative for ASA's (a new thing I just learned about, sperm antibodies, make sure to ask if your DH was tested for those! It can be common after a surgery like my DH had.) Things on my end are 100% fine, so maybe that's why he's feeling that way about us? He is going to put me on Clomid with IUI, just cause I'm 34. If we don't have much improvement in count over the summer, I want to try IVF/ICSI in the fall. DH is going to have a sample frozen next month.

 

[Tammerzann]

Just thought I would give an update on the DH and I's current status:

March 8: SA of zero
May 7: UR appt for DH with Dx of CAVD
May 18: My BW with results of: FSH 6.1 (was told this was good), E2 of 86 (Nurse showed some concern but said another test would show if this was a fluke or if it was something wrong)
June 4: UR Followup on DH's BW showing his numbers are good but that he's a carrier of Cystic Fibrosis. They did BW on me to see if I'm a carrier and I will find out in 2-3 weeks what my results are. If I'm not a carrier then we just need to get my side of things figured out and then we will have to schedule a MESA for DH (and figure out how to pay for it ) followed by IVF for me.

A lot of info to digest but I have a pretty good feeling about it all.

Next up is an appt with my OB/GYN on the 19th (which is a year overdue b/c I was hoping we could get PG naturally )

So I might have fibbed in the title of my post. But that's definitely short winded for me!

 

[deafgal01]

Tam that is progress! Hoping you will get knocked up soon enough.

I just had my consultation appt with a new clinic yesterday. I decided to try a different one because the experience with the first one I tried last fall was awkward plus the dr is the only one for that clinic so basically I would have to suffer because he had to split his duties between three or four locations in the state so I felt that was quite not a committed dr to his patients. He joked about dh too when we met him, he said "oh so it's all his fault." And I never was able to erase that from my mind after meeting him so new clinic it was.

Fast forward to yesterday. Def a better experience with new clinic. Dr seems available as he only works that location and if he is not, his nurse can follow up/check on me. The clinic wants more than just diseases blood screening from me. They said they wanted me to have hsg and day 3 bloods, just to rule out everything and make sure we know what we are up against. They took the time to sit down and explain every step to us, overwhelming as it was it was very informative and just what we needed. They also require counseling before you undergo iui or Ivf, so that was a bonus. The counseling appt I already had yesterday as well so I feel like we did not move forward but we did not move backward too. I went into details in my journal about the prices and options.

 

[Tammerzann]

Deafgal I couldn't agree with you more! Teasing between my DH and myself is one thing but that seems extremely unprofessional for the doctor to say something like that. I don't blame you for going elsewhere. Glad you had a better experience!!!

 

[MrsG30]

Update from me.

after weighing everything up for a good few weeks now and taking everything into consideration DH and I have decided to use DS. Purely personal choice and made for many reasons, I know some of you will disagree but its the right choice for us.

As we no longer need urology, the FS has brought our next appointment forward, so we go back 2/7 to make plans for a treatment plan. 6 rounds of IUI all medicated as I have PCOS and if needed 3 x IVF. Thankfully covered by the NHS.

We are using a known donor and his app is a week before ours, were expecting his "donation" will be quarantined for approx 4 month, so hopefully treatment will start around Nov/Dec time.

Feels good to have a plan- just hope 2 god it works

Hi to all and hope your all ok? xxx

 

[deafgal01]

MrsG hope that goes to plan!

I am doing fine. Still waiting for af so I can get the tests scheduled.