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Dealing with azoospermia?
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Congrats Gem. I felt the seam way when they found 11 sperm for us...we were all crying. It was such a weight off my shoulders.
Im in the middle of my FET cycle now to return one of our frosties. Im hoping that this time we get a bfp because we so desperately want it and hubby isnt jumping at the opportunit for another mTESE lol. Day 7 atm and im schedule to go in for scan next Thursday.
Im in the middle of my FET cycle now to return one of our frosties. Im hoping that this time we get a bfp because we so desperately want it and hubby isnt jumping at the opportunit for another mTESE lol. Day 7 atm and im schedule to go in for scan next Thursday.
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So we did our egg retrieval and mTESE yesterday (what a logistical nightmare, but I digress). They retrieved 13 eggs from me which is great! They took a sample from my hubby, and they didn't find anything in it, so they used the frozen sample they had. There were 5 sperm and that resulted in 1 good embryo and 1 that might make it. With the rest of my eggs, they fertilized them with our donor backup and we have 4 good embryos and 1 that might make it.
So all in all a good result provided things keep going as they are. We'll see how it goes, but I just wanted to update to let anyone know who was curious that the HCG didn't make a difference for my hubby, however, we don't know what's causing his azoo, so it's hard to say if there is something else that we should have tried!
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So all in all a good result provided things keep going as they are. We'll see how it goes, but I just wanted to update to let anyone know who was curious that the HCG didn't make a difference for my hubby, however, we don't know what's causing his azoo, so it's hard to say if there is something else that we should have tried!
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Brandy - fingers and toes crossed for you! With my DH it is the same - there is absolutely no reason they can find for the azoo. Tubes clear, all hormones and genetics as they should be ... and still... Maybe as a little boy he had some illness (mumps or similar to mumps) with a high fever that caused his infertility? Who knows (at least that is what I am contemplating). I am so happy that you have managed to have a couple of nice embies after the procedure and really hope that they develop nicely, and once transferred, that they burrow in to become your miracle baby! 
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I have everything crossed for u brandy! Im glad u have embryos to play with.
Afm I hd my lining scan today and all ws good so im booked in for my fet on monday. Feeling very nervous!
Afm I hd my lining scan today and all ws good so im booked in for my fet on monday. Feeling very nervous!
Fingers crossed for you Brandy.
Just a quick question , does anyone here know if their DH has vitamin D deficiency. The specialist have not been able to identify the cause for Azoo in our case either and I am desperate to know the cause.
Just a quick question , does anyone here know if their DH has vitamin D deficiency. The specialist have not been able to identify the cause for Azoo in our case either and I am desperate to know the cause.
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Hi Arzoo! With my DH, they were not able to find any deficiencies, no blockages, no hormonal imbalances, no genetic disorders ... we have no answers I'm afraid, just unexplained Azoo. The only idea we had was perhaps a viral infection similar to mumps (which is known to cause sterility) when he was a little boy. I thought it might have been the glandular fever he had when he was very little, with an incredibly high fever - but unfortunately, we have no explanation 
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Arzoo unfortunately azo is most of the time unexplained and nothing can be done to fix it. The dr says my dh is unexplained but he had torsion and an undescended testicle on the opposite side whig we know is most likely the cause.
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Thanks Brandy for the update. I am glad that you have so many good embryos for transfer. I hope you get your BFP right away! DH is currently on HCG. It's expensive but he didn't want Clomid. His three month mark is September 6th so we will order an extra two weeks of HCG and schedule a SA for that time. I keep hearing that HCG didn't work, I wonder why it keeps getting referred if it's not working.
As I mentioned earlier, my GP has referred me to the Fertility clinic and our first appointment is on the14th, I really dont know what to expect at the appointment. Can someone please share your experience so I can know what to expect. Thank you
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Hi Arzoo - I can tell you what our experiences were (Germany). Once we knew we had an infertility problem, we made our appointment at the fertility clinic. At this point we knew - my cycles were OK, DH had little to 0 sperm with horrendous motility + morphology.
Once we went into the doctor's room, he sat down to talk with us about our options : with DH SA basically only ICSI and due to the limited number of sperm found (max 250 K) IMSI was out of the question. They wanted to do various blood tests (genetic testing, hormone testing) on both of us - to see where we were there. For him - to see what the potential reasons behind his bad SAs were - was it genetic, was it hormonal etc. The next steps would be : a new SA at that clinic. If that didn't work, giving him some drops to take which would open up the tubes a bit more - see if that was the issue - at a second SA. Finally, if all that didn't work, sending him to a Urologist who could do a TESE to try and see if they could get sperm from the source (if it wasn't a tubal blockage). After that, I had to have an ultrasound where he looked at my uterus, my ovaries - promptly said that my ovaries looked like they would produce plenty of eggs when stimulated.
That was pretty much it - they took blood, had all the testing done (which for us showed that everything was normal)... and DH had to make an appt. for his SA. This was our first appointment at our fertility clinic... I don't know how the process is in the UK, but I imagine it would be similar to our experience?
Good luck next week
Oh - and no idea what it's like at your clinic, but we had to wait for aaaaages
Once we went into the doctor's room, he sat down to talk with us about our options : with DH SA basically only ICSI and due to the limited number of sperm found (max 250 K) IMSI was out of the question. They wanted to do various blood tests (genetic testing, hormone testing) on both of us - to see where we were there. For him - to see what the potential reasons behind his bad SAs were - was it genetic, was it hormonal etc. The next steps would be : a new SA at that clinic. If that didn't work, giving him some drops to take which would open up the tubes a bit more - see if that was the issue - at a second SA. Finally, if all that didn't work, sending him to a Urologist who could do a TESE to try and see if they could get sperm from the source (if it wasn't a tubal blockage). After that, I had to have an ultrasound where he looked at my uterus, my ovaries - promptly said that my ovaries looked like they would produce plenty of eggs when stimulated.
That was pretty much it - they took blood, had all the testing done (which for us showed that everything was normal)... and DH had to make an appt. for his SA. This was our first appointment at our fertility clinic... I don't know how the process is in the UK, but I imagine it would be similar to our experience?
Good luck next week
Oh - and no idea what it's like at your clinic, but we had to wait for aaaaages
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My experience was similar to bubus except we went to fs then urologist then did the ivf/icsi w/fresh sperm then tried meds with a new re(no help). We didn't wait a long time to see our doctors. We never had the tese done. We left some frozen just in case but pretty much used fresh every try.
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... yep, same here - didn't need to do the TESE (do have some frozen and for the September ICSI they thawed a straw, as they couldn't get anything from the fresh sample) - have used fresh samples for 3 out of 4 ICSIs
Hello ladies! I haven''t been on in a while. I hope everyone is doing well. It looks like many have unexplained azoo. My hubby had undescended testicles when he was born and had surgery at age 5 to correct the problem. This is the cause of ours. Has anyone looked into possible gluten allergy? I hear this can be a cause as well.
So, we went for our follow-up and were very excited for the positive results of our TESE. We were a little thrown back that our doctor wanted us to do another round of IVF and another TESE to bank more embryos. We were very happy to have 5 fertilize! We agreed that we just can't do it right now. Poor hubby is still recovering, and I feel that I'm just finally feeling like myself again after all of those meds.
But now we are nervous that we don't have enough embryos. Anyway, surgery is the 27th then hopefully FET in September. Hopefully all goes well, and we get our miracle baby from those five. I just keep thinking, all we need is one!!!!
So, we went for our follow-up and were very excited for the positive results of our TESE. We were a little thrown back that our doctor wanted us to do another round of IVF and another TESE to bank more embryos. We were very happy to have 5 fertilize! We agreed that we just can't do it right now. Poor hubby is still recovering, and I feel that I'm just finally feeling like myself again after all of those meds.
But now we are nervous that we don't have enough embryos. Anyway, surgery is the 27th then hopefully FET in September. Hopefully all goes well, and we get our miracle baby from those five. I just keep thinking, all we need is one!!!!
