Dealing with azoospermia?

[CanadianMaple]

You girls have no idea how great this thread is for me. I haven't been posting a lot because I am still processing everything. It's been a full week since we got his results back. He did his repeat SA yesterday but we know the odds of it being different it pretty much nil. Our RE will eventually do a detailed SA.

I am not quite ready to jump in with personals, but I want to thank you all for posting in here and keeping me hopeful. Those of you doing IUIs and other big things this week; lots of baby dust!!

I hope that I can eventually be active here. I just hate being me,me,me in my posts while I process it all. The tears have stopped for now, day 3 without crying, so let's hope that means that I have made progress instead of going into denial.

Becky

 

[MrsCompass]

Hi Becky!! I'm sorry to hear the sad news. Keeping u in my prayers.

 

[Sar187]

Pink lolly-Congrats on doing your IUI on Friday! Praying it goes well! And I'm sure once your DH holds that baby, he won't have a 2nd thought about it not being his.

Tiger-Glad things are moving for you!

Bookworm-Yay for ET on Friday! Friday is a big day around here! Hoping you have some good quality embryos to transfer. You have a very good point about PMA. I told my RE about doing acupuncture and he was very supportive saying that stress can be a big contributor to failure. I have also been doing fertility meditation this cycle and while I don't know if that or the acupuncture are what have helped I have been both a lot more positive this cycle, and all my follies are more mature and hopefully produce better quality eggs. My Reiki practitioner also told me that thinking positive draws positive things to you, so therefore if you think positive your life will be more positive!

Becky-take your time, and just remember we are all here for support.

AFM-Triggered last night. EC is tomorrow morning I have the same # of follies as last cycle however they are all more mature than last cycle which is good! Hopefully we get plenty of eggs and have a whole lot better fertilization than last time. I have a good feeling about this cycle though.

 

[Pink Lolly]

Good luck sar - will be thinking of you tomorrow morning! xx

 

[MJ73]

Hi Girls,
Well, we are just heartbroken, its a negative result for us today. I really had hopes for ths cycle, I think because I did actually get pregnant last time (even though we miscarried), I thought I might get lucky this time. Words can't express how devastated I'm feeling. Life just seems so cruel today. I sometimes wonder how we go on each day & just keep on going...
MJ

 

[Pink Lolly]

Really sorry to read this MJ

 

[Deb111]

So, so sorry MJ. I wish I knew what to say but there really is nothing that will help so I'm sending you lots of

Hope everyone else is doing ok today - need to read back through when I get home to check up on everyone who has had big things going on today xx

 

[Bookworm]

So sorry MJ there are no words... We'll be thinking of you both.

CanadianMaple - This is going to be a tough time for you, that's totally normal. I think it would be worse if you weren't reacting to this news. Take all the time you need to be 'me,me,me', we've all been there

AFM: ET went well today; we had 1 grade 2 & 1 grade 2/3 returned... So now I'm at home trying to relax.... I'm all stocked up on 'implantation food' (walnuts, pineapple core & pomegranate juice) & I plan to take it really easy over the weekend.... And so now we wait

Big hugs to everyone with appointments today - thinking of you guys & wishing you lots of luck

 

[Pink Lolly]

Hi Everyone :wave:

Bookworm - glad it went well today! Relaxing definitely sounds like a good idea

AFM we had out first IUI today and are now officially in our first 2 week wait!

It went well - she told me them post wash donor sperm count and it was 12 million and she said 75% of them were moving. I'm guessing that's OK as they told us that all donors have fertility checks, although as we have no sperm it's not something I'm really familiar with!

So it's just fingers crossed for us now! I start the progesterone pesseries tonight which I am dreading Be glad to get the first one out of the way!

Hope everyone else is ok? Sar how did you get on? x

 

[Bookworm]

The pessaries aren't that bad - i've been on then for a couple of days & personally I find them even easier than tampons. Good luck - fx for you

 

[wibble wobble]

Bookworm and pinklolly I hope your 2ww are kind to you

MJ so sorry to read you got a bfn

Canadian Maple you need to give yourself plenty of time for things to sink in properly. It's a lot to digest
don't worry about not doing personals, you need to sort your well being first

Deb how are you?

Sar how did ec go?

afm I'm in the middle of getting my hormone profiles done, I've got my counselling arranged for a week monday and a follow up with our consultant on Jan 24th.... things are ticking along for me quite nicely, if only I knew what the next step was I just can't help myself, I'm always thinking beyond what is happening.... and wishing my life away until that next appointment, only 10 days to wish away until counselling

 

[Sar187]

MJ-so sorry to hear this. ((Hugs))

Pink-sounds like everything went really well. I hope the 2ww isn't too hard on you!

Wibble-I'm sure 10 days will go by faster than you think. It is hard not to be consumed by all of this.

AFM-EC went well. We got 13 eggs. I was hoping for a few more because of our bad fertilization last time(4 out of 13), but am happy with 13. Hoping for good fertilization! My hope is for 6 fertilized!

 

[clayzor]

Hello Deb, it's me, sorry your first thread post isn't going to be a success story!! So far, anyway.

You know it all anyway, but I'll tell my story...

I'm Jo, 31, hubby has just turned 41. We've been together for 5 years, married for 18 months. Azoospermia was diagnosed in March after properly trying for nearly a year, and NTNP for probably about 2 years or more. Like Deb, I jus knew something was wrong, although I was convinced it was me!

Anyway, we've been attending the GCRM in Glasgow for our treatment, it's unfortunately a private clinic, the NHS waiting times here are over 2 years! Ridiculous.

SSR was on 13th July, and very sadly, no sperm was found. So my poor habby has been hobbling around with swollen, bruised & stirched balls since then. And all for nothing.

We've decided to go ahead with treatment using donor sperm, we're going back to the clinic on 4th August to find out whether we'll still need the IVF or whatever.

All in all, we've had a really shitty year, but are over the latest shock & hoping nothing else bad will happen! Please?

This condition, like others, is treatable. Have him take American Ginseng, Vitamin B6, Zinc. Arginine. L-Dopa, Safed Musli.

 

[Deb111]

So sorry MJ there are no words... We'll be thinking of you both.

CanadianMaple - This is going to be a tough time for you, that's totally normal. I think it would be worse if you weren't reacting to this news. Take all the time you need to be 'me,me,me', we've all been there

AFM: ET went well today; we had 1 grade 2 & 1 grade 2/3 returned... So now I'm at home trying to relax.... I'm all stocked up on 'implantation food' (walnuts, pineapple core & pomegranate juice) & I plan to take it really easy over the weekend.... And so now we wait

Big hugs to everyone with appointments today - thinking of you guys & wishing you lots of luck

The things we do ... pomegranate juice made me heave!!!

Hope you're managing to relax xx

 

[Deb111]

Deb how are you?

Not doing too great at the moment but it's not all TTC stuff. Not sure how we're going to manage financially at the moment to even do FET in January, let alone any more ICSI if we need it

 

[Deb111]

MJ-so sorry to hear this. ((Hugs))

Pink-sounds like everything went really well. I hope the 2ww isn't too hard on you!

Wibble-I'm sure 10 days will go by faster than you think. It is hard not to be consumed by all of this.

AFM-EC went well. We got 13 eggs. I was hoping for a few more because of our bad fertilization last time(4 out of 13), but am happy with 13. Hoping for good fertilization! My hope is for 6 fertilized!

13 eggs is great hun Keeping everything crossed for a great fertilisation report xx

 

[Deb111]

This condition, like others, is treatable. Have him take American Ginseng, Vitamin B6, Zinc. Arginine. L-Dopa, Safed Musli.

Thanks for the information. Pretty much all of these are in the fertility vitamins that many of our partners take. Does your partner have azoospermia? Has your dh had personal experience of the results of taking these supplements?

As I'm sure others will agree, we will try pretty much anything to treat the azoospermia, but improving low sperm production (clearly an understatement for many of our dh's, as some of our men clearly do make 'some' as they are found in SSR's - just obviously being made in minute numbers) and 'curing' men who aren't making ANY AT ALL, are 2 very different things

I look forward to hearing your story and successes xx

 

[Deb111]

Girls - I've noticed that I need to do some serious updating of the front page so to make it a bit easier for me, I'd be grateful if you could type your B'n'B name followed by relevant dates and information about where you're at right now - just a line or 2 - and then I can cut and paste to front page.

Thanks

 

[Pink Lolly]

Pink Lolly - First Donor IUI 9th December 2011 OTD 22nd December

 

[Bookworm]

Bookworm - first ICSI cycle December 2011; OTD 23rd December