Dealing with azoospermia?

[Stinas]

Miki - Im sorry. Unfortunately us azoo chicks get to experience a lot of delays. It just overall sucks!

Is it only me or do some of you think azoo could be caused by the shit in our food now and days? I really think it is. All these hormones and crap. Just curious if it was only me.

 

[Mikihob]

Miki - Im sorry. Unfortunately us azoo chicks get to experience a lot of delays. It just overall sucks!

Is it only me or do some of you think azoo could be caused by the shit in our food now and days? I really think it is. All these hormones and crap. Just curious if it was only me.

I keep reading about all of the other ladies delays and wonder how any of stay sane!!

Some women are lucky enough to have their husbands azoo corrected, fixed, whatever you want to call it, but putting then on vitamins and the right diet and also having them stop drinking and smoking all together. I have wondered. But then I think about those that aren't that lucky and wonder...

 

[deafgal01]

I do think sometime some things we eat and do in today's world has an effect on men's swimmers. But then again we have more technology and drs have more ways to diagnose an issue with sperms that they could not do even 40 or 50 years ago. Medical field is amazing like that with changes happening all the time with the more knowledge and research they gain.

 

[alliejc77]

Hi ladies

It's been busy on here since I last checked in and I'm still getting to grips with everyone's journeys so forgive me if I mix anything up.

DeafGal01 - I'm sorry your last cycle didn't work

Mikihob - Having to delay sucks big time. I hope it comes round quickly for you.

Ophelia - I remember that well from when I went through this first time round with my ex. He just took way longer than I did to digest things, to decide which course was right for him and basically just everything. I had to be really patient and accept that it was just how it had to be. I could really relate to everything you said you felt, it bought it all back. My heart goes out to you. You will both get through it together, it does take time and I won't say it ever gets easier but it does become less raw. If that makes any sense.

I have finally started my period today after a two and a half month absence. Off to doctors tomorrow for blood test results and am really nervous. Have done nothing but comfort eat all weekend, bang goes the diet!

Allie x

 

[bubumaci]

I have thought about that - whether it can be due to the environment ... I think, TBH, that it isn't necessarily to do with that. I think it is more the fact that we know about it, we have fertility clinics to go to and we can, in some cases, do something about it to still get pregnant. Back way back when - it was put down to the woman that she couldn't have children... It is much more spoken about - most of us on here do speak about it to friends and family - I think it has just become much more known.
I mean if I just look at DH and his brother. DH - Azoo - his brother, a fertile god! (They got pregnant after just a couple of months' trying - but went and got checked out because they knew about our issues... BIL : I think the figures were 40 MIO or something like that with pretty much 100% motility + morphology). Both raised same, same foods, same environment etc. etc. - and yet DH : Azoo.

@ Miki - just a thought for you ... on another thread, we have a lady who had to go the route of DE (after a few IVF tries). They didn't have the money to pay for it, especially after going through IVF - and so they set up a donor site on (I think it is called gofundme or something like that) the internet. I know that most people on our thread donated (I did, quite a considerable amount), family donated, friends donated, strangers donated - their story was on there and people just wanted to help. I don't know whether or not people around you know of your "plight", whether it is something you have kept secret ... I don't know if this could be for you, but if you decide you could do it, I am confident that you would find support coming from the most unexpected corners of the world and perhaps getting you to your financial goal must faster than you could have believed.

I wish you all the luck in the world - I know what it means to have to pay for this (I am privately insured, DH is state insurance. Over here, the insurance company of the "cause" has to pay ... so my insurance doesn't pay a cent towards the infertility treatments - if it had been me, everything would have been covered. DH's costs are so low, his insurance pays 50% ... so about 40 EUR! It means that we are entirely out of pocket for the whole ride - and by now, we have paid a small fortune and certainly a nice new car's worth) - On top of all the stress of the infertility comes the finance question. I really hope that you can get there and perhaps you would consider getting financial help from the "universe"?

xxx

*edit* the lady who did the gofundme is happily pregnant with some nice waiting to become siblings

 

[arzoo]

Hello everyone! just checking in to see how you all are getting on. On sunday we met up with a friend who is an andrologist and even she could not give a definite reason for what the cause could be. I guess in some cases you will never find out. and guess what is what makes is tougher to accept. Almost as though you cant answer the question why me/us.

As many of you rightly said, the wait in between tests and medicines with more follow up tests drives me nuts. exhausted! But i guess nothing much can be done, we just have to be patient and remain positive. My friend told me the changes of finding sperm in the case of non obstructive is very low in the same breath she asked us to remain positive as positive emotions and less stress will help the outcome. I know I am rambling. I just want it to be saturday , when DH goes for his sperm analysis post the 3 months on tamoxifen.

 

[alliejc77]

Hi Arzoo - I hope Saturday comes quickly for you.

Well I'm back from my appointment. All my blood tests came back normal bar one. I have high levels of prolactin. I have been referred to see an endocrinologist and told that I will most likely have an MRI to see if the pituitary gland is enlarged :S I wasn't expecting this at all so didn't have a clue about it and have had to read up. It seems like you can have a non cancerous growth or swelling but that's not the only cause so it's just a case of wait and see. I'm so relieved it's not early menopause or POF but also a tiny bit scared. :S (tiny?) xxx

 

[tulip11]

Hi my hubby testosterone level is 10.5 and elevated FSH of 13.2 . Tomorrow he ill start his second month of clomid 25mg is there anyone whose hubby hormones are somewhat like this ?

 

[bubumaci]

I will check what levels DH had tomorrow, I can't remember to be honest, just that all levels were normal and there was no explanation for his lack of

 

[deafgal01]

My dh had elevated FSH but like I mentioned meds did not help our case. I have no idea or record of his level numbers though.

 

[bubumaci]

So, looking at his results, his testosterone was a bit low at 3.3 ng/ml (normal range is 3,5 - 8,6). FSH was fine at 5.4 IU/l where the normal range is 1,0 - 10,1. I am assuming that your values are also ng/ml and IU/l? When looking on the internet, many of the statistics were in decilitres not millilitres for testosterone...

I still can't get over, how many people suffer from unexplained infertility - it somehow makes it even harder - not only suffering from it, but not being able to understand where it comes from!

 

[arzoo]

I completely agree with you Babumaci, the most frustrating part is not being able to identify what the cause is. At times I compare it to being hit by a car from behind and not being able to see what car it was . There are so many vague theories out there, high level of pollution, amount of packaged food and the chemicals in them, and so on. What my DH finds very frustrating is , he is otherwise a healthy person , not a smoker and only drinks occasionally. So why!

 

[Izabela]

The witch finally showed last night. So I will contact office tomorrow morning and see if the protocol is the same this cycle or if anything changes.

Sorry to hear was negative. but is only the first.

My FET ended up in a chemical.

 

[deafgal01]

I scheduled a consultation appt with dr, the earliest is after my fertile time so won't do IUI this month and hoping to have plan for next month regarding best use of my remaining two vials. I am just worried and scared the other two will have similar or zero count that survived the freeze and thaw process so I am considering maybe doing stimulated even though I ovulate fine on my own.

 

[Stinas]

DG - It wont hurt to ask the doc about doing a medicated one.

 

[Rainbow123]

So sorry Deafgal. Thinking of you lovely XXXXXXXXX

 

[NikkiR143]

My hubby dropped off his sperm sample to the lab this morning. I've been constantly checking the Kaiser website for the results- and they're in! It says..."See Note" on a lot of it and "TND" - test not done. So I'm assuming no sperm was found ((

I've emailed his doctor for more information since this is all I can see for now. I'm so worried. I am at work sweating and dreading hearing the news. Ugh...

 

[deafgal01]

Oh Nicole

 

[spark_28]

Hello everyone,

I am just going to jump right in here. I am hoping to get some feedback on mTESE and how many of you did or did not choose to proceed with it and what was the deciding factor? Also, if you did move forward with it how successful were you end results?

We discovered that my husband has azoospermia this year in Jan. Since then we have gone through a series of tests and treatments, including one TESE biopsy in May which revealed nothing. At out last consult this week our Dr. informed us that a mTESE in conjunction with IVF was our only chance at a biological child and even then he couldn't guarantee anything. We do not want to use donor sperm. At this point we just have to decide if we take the chance or not. Even though every person is different it would be reassuring to hear any success stories, as I am mostly finding the opposite with my internet searches.

Thank you and I wish you all the best on this extremely frustrating and seemingly impossible journey.

I should also mention that about 5 years ago my husband was producing sperm...only one or two but they existed. The Dr. has no idea why is no longer producing. Everything about him is normal except for having an elevated FSH level.

 

[deafgal01]

Spark- my dh and I decided not to do mtese because we had no way of knowing if they would find any swimmers so we did not see the point of going broke over that type of surgery due to no coverage for infertility treatments.