Dealing with azoospermia?
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My scan went well! Baby measuring as should with hb 170 at 9weeks 1 day!! Released to my ob. Seems so surreal like in actually preggo again? I've been feeling bad the last week after some mild Nausea but if that means baby is okay I'll take it.
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Hey ladies! Just wanted to update I'm 14weeks and 2 days! Baby looks good. I had the harmony test for trisomy 21/18/13 and all was clear after some scary screening results. We opted for gender too but my dr failed to give me those results so I'm going to try to get them tomorrow. We think another boy based on a sneaky ultrasound at work today 
hope everyone is doing okay.
Oh and today was the first day I haven't felt very sick so that was so nice!! a small amount after dinner tonight but overall today was a good day!!
hope everyone is doing okay.Oh and today was the first day I haven't felt very sick so that was so nice!! a small amount after dinner tonight but overall today was a good day!!
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I'm not sure. I've never seen a high risk but last pregnancy I had appts every 2 weeks (sometimes 1 week) most of the pregnancy. I am seeing a different ob this time so I guess the high risk will make me follow-up whenever. I hope it's not often. It's hard enough to juggle my regular ob appts with work. And the high risk dr is about 35 mins from work so it's not convenient to go at anytime really. I can't see the high risk at the hospital I work at, although the same "group" because I'm delivering at the hospital where I'm schedule to see high risk already. Boo! We do know then gender we are having another boy! Announcing it officially this weekend.
we are having another boy! Announcing it officially this weekend.
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The high risk doc is 35 minutes away! Ugh. I hope it's too frequent on top of standard OB. I assumed high risk docs would take over for low risk OB's. I never knew you had to do both. Yikes! I hope it's only a sporadic checking, it's nice to know baby is doing good, but it is hard to get out of work that much before you take maternity leave.
Boy!! Yay! Everyone I know is having a boy. So far we are 4-1 boys to girls. Boys are just so sweet. I bet DS and this new DS are going to have a ball! I love watching my neighbors three boys, those kids crack me up.
Congrats on blue again!
Boy!! Yay! Everyone I know is having a boy. So far we are 4-1 boys to girls. Boys are just so sweet. I bet DS and this new DS are going to have a ball! I love watching my neighbors three boys, those kids crack me up.
Congrats on blue again!
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No the high risk obs are just mainly consultants and they tell your ob how to manage. They make the call when and how delivery should happen. Most high risk Drs don't actually deliver the baby but guide your ob in what to do and if extra people are needed like another ob, etc. I hope it's just a few times then that's it.
Hello ladies,
DH was diagnosed with azoospermia after about a year of ttc. I feel devastated and we are still working through the surprise and emotions of it. We are going to the urologist specialist next month. I also have a general fertility consult next month (made appt before we knew about this).
I will peruse as much as this thread as I can, but any advice for the recently diagnosed?
Also, any likelihood that the first test could have been wrong? Or is this false hope to hold onto?
DH was diagnosed with azoospermia after about a year of ttc. I feel devastated and we are still working through the surprise and emotions of it. We are going to the urologist specialist next month. I also have a general fertility consult next month (made appt before we knew about this).
I will peruse as much as this thread as I can, but any advice for the recently diagnosed?
Also, any likelihood that the first test could have been wrong? Or is this false hope to hold onto?
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I'm surprised they didn't do a second one to make sure the first one was accurate.
Be kind to your husband and yourself. The emotions can be a lot to deal with - especially when you find out, and then try treatments.
Some ladies have had success with meds (for their husbands) and other ladies ended up with donors sperms or adopting for their babies.
Be kind to your husband and yourself. The emotions can be a lot to deal with - especially when you find out, and then try treatments.
Some ladies have had success with meds (for their husbands) and other ladies ended up with donors sperms or adopting for their babies.
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MsRipple!I am sorry that you are facing this diagnosis. It is devastating ... but not hopeless!
One thing that our fertility clinic did, after his diagnoses of Azoospermia, was to test again - normally, and then another one separately, giving him some medication to widen the vessels, to see if then there were more sperm (there weren't). Then he was sent to a urologist, who also did a few tests. DH's results ranged from 0 - 250k, those that were there were either abnormal or not moving.
The urologist wanted to try something before moving onto TESE (where he said the results could be could or not, since sometimes DH was producing and other times not - and he had ruled out obstructive Azoospermia). He had to take Tamoxifen for 6 weeks. We actually had really good results (8 MIO sperm) and were able to freeze 6 vials of sperm.
When we moved forward with IVF, they managed to get a few sperm each time from fresh samples, so they didn't use the frozen samples ... but no luck. For the last try (ICSI # 6, transfer #9), we tried TESE ... I was all prepped for my egg retrieval, when they told me that the TESE sample was useless, so they would be thawing 3 straws from the frozen sperm (from 2 years before)... it brought us our miracle!!
If you want to read more details of our journey, feel free to take a peek at my pregnancy journal (the first two posts describe it all in detail).
Wishing you the best of luck and much much strength on this rocky journey. It is so very hard, but you do have options. And allow the emotions to happen - I still grieve for not being able to get pregnant naturally and not being able to give our little miracle a sibling - because I just can't go through it all again! It breaks my heart every time I hear of others being successful and being able to have another child. I loved pregnancy. I loved childbirth ... it is hard
Thanks ladies. I am going to back and start looking at journals and posts. Still a bit shocked by this, as is my dh. I feel fine one minute and then feel like I am going to start crying in my office the next.
The referring doctor did say we would likely be asked to do a second test, but also referred us to a urologist at the same time. I assume the urologist will order the second test, as they didn't say anything about doing it before we went in.
The referring doctor did say we would likely be asked to do a second test, but also referred us to a urologist at the same time. I assume the urologist will order the second test, as they didn't say anything about doing it before we went in.
I've started reading through the posts (decided to start at page #550 for now since there are so many!) and am both buoyed by the success some people of had and a bit daunted by the steps required to get there. Bubu I read the beginning of pregnancy journal and I was so thrilled for you (though I knew the outcome already 
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Questions for you ladies:
1. Any suggestions for our first urologist appointment? things you wished you had asked or done?
2. Has anyone's dh had testicular cancer or prior surgery in that area? If so, was that a contributing factor to the disease and how has it affected treatment/fertility outcomes? My dh had testicular cancer several years ago and one testicle removed. He did not need chemo or radiation thankfully. We assumed that the other testicle was functioning, but now we know there is something wrong. We are hypothesizing that either something was accidentally snipped during the surgery or possibly there was some scar tissue that resulted from the surgery?
I tried to convince my dh to try at home insemination since I know I am ovulating today or tomorrow. He refused saying it was pointless. I think there is no harm even though I know there is 0 chance or maybe .0001% chance of a magical sperm finding its way. I was pretty upset he wouldn't even consider it, but I didn't push it, figuring that he is dealing with a lot and we have a long road ahead of us and, realistically, the likelihood of success is almost certainly zero.
). Questions for you ladies:
1. Any suggestions for our first urologist appointment? things you wished you had asked or done?
2. Has anyone's dh had testicular cancer or prior surgery in that area? If so, was that a contributing factor to the disease and how has it affected treatment/fertility outcomes? My dh had testicular cancer several years ago and one testicle removed. He did not need chemo or radiation thankfully. We assumed that the other testicle was functioning, but now we know there is something wrong. We are hypothesizing that either something was accidentally snipped during the surgery or possibly there was some scar tissue that resulted from the surgery?
I tried to convince my dh to try at home insemination since I know I am ovulating today or tomorrow. He refused saying it was pointless. I think there is no harm even though I know there is 0 chance or maybe .0001% chance of a magical sperm finding its way. I was pretty upset he wouldn't even consider it, but I didn't push it, figuring that he is dealing with a lot and we have a long road ahead of us and, realistically, the likelihood of success is almost certainly zero.
