Dealing with azoospermia?

[snd80]

Sun- I'd join if it was on the down low! Certain ppl on my so called "friends" list I wouldn't want to know; you get my drift...

 

[WANBMUM]

Hi Guys. Hope you are all doing good. I am going to look on amazon now for that book - thanks.
Its been 2 weeks since we got our final azoo diagnosis and after lots and lots of discussions, donor sperm is our next option AND we have made an appointment for a fertility clinic for this Friday. We are both feeling excited and I can't believe how positive we feel after being told that my hubby can't have 'his biological' children. I really didnt think we would. This journey is so full of highs and lows, it is crazy. We hope to start IUI ASAP, all going well. Keep your fingers crossed all my tests go ok.

Do any of you have any ideas on what I can tell my work, Im not telling them the truth, nor am I telling them about any fertility tests, so what can I tell them as I know I will need to change days off etc. This is the only part that is a concern to me.

Can you not just tell them it's female issues or maybe a hormonal problem and that you need regularly monitoring?

Just noticed your weightloss total!!!!! Well done you!

Thanks Deb, yes I will have to come up with something, i like the hormonal issue. I really dont want to point them in the direction of fertility at all, I will definitly be using regular monitoring. Im sure it will all fall into place.

thanks, my weightloss is going really well, although this past week I have been all over the place and really enjoying myself food wise. Its really funny, I am just starting to physically see it, in my clothes and I then decide to self destruct and eat all around me! I am getting it back on track again and have been at the gym lots so hopefully that will even it out. I;ve been following weight watchers and I love it, its so doable, I still get to have what I want, as in if I want a bar of choc or a chinese, I just factor it into my points. Saying that, I have a couple more stone to go. Hopefully I will get pregnant and get fat anyway - now that would be awesome!

 

[WANBMUM]

Hi Sun, How exactly would that work? wouuld we use our current profiles is it? I'd be happy once it was confidential

 

[raelynn]

It looks like this is how you can do the facebook group and just set it to private
https://www.facebook.com/groups

 

[Deb111]

Cosita - lovely to see you back - keeping everything crossed for you

MJ - I'm doing ok thanks - in fact this FET has flown by for us!! It doesn't seem 5 minutes ago that we cancelled the cycle and now a day 7 scan, a day 11 scan today, +opk at lunchtime and trigger shot done 8pm this evening

FET booked for Valentines day! xx

 

[raelynn]

Deb that is so sweet that it is happening on Valentine's day! Good luck!

 

[MJ73]

Cosita - lovely to see you back - keeping everything crossed for you

MJ - I'm doing ok thanks - in fact this FET has flown by for us!! It doesn't seem 5 minutes ago that we cancelled the cycle and now a day 7 scan, a day 11 scan today, +opk at lunchtime and trigger shot done 8pm this evening

FET booked for Valentines day! xx

Deb; Valentines Day; thats awesome. A good omen me thinks. Keeping everything crossed for you hun

 

[cosita]

Hi again,
Deb so excited for you, have my fingers and toes crossed for you. Well we got our SA results, back to zero. Still waiting on the biochemical analysis which may or may not give some idea as to why. Could I ask you if you have gotten a reason for your OH's azoospermia, or just a plain diagnosis? Your answers would be greatly appreciated. Hearing you all talk about 'Helping the stork' I almost bought it but we haven't even had a biopsy yet. I guess I should wait but its not a bad idea to consider the option before its landed on us, what do you think?
Thanks girls.

 

[wibble wobble]

Hi again,
Deb so excited for you, have my fingers and toes crossed for you. Well we got our SA results, back to zero. Still waiting on the biochemical analysis which may or may not give some idea as to why. Could I ask you if you have gotten a reason for your OH's azoospermia, or just a plain diagnosis? Your answers would be greatly appreciated. Hearing you all talk about 'Helping the stork' I almost bought it but we haven't even had a biopsy yet. I guess I should wait but its not a bad idea to consider the option before its landed on us, what do you think?
Thanks girls.

We haven't actually been given a reason for hubby's azoo. His testicles are on the small side (he'd hate me for telling anyone that ) which is a symptom of failure the raised fsh is another symptom (the higher the fsh the less chance of finding sperm) His mum actually said to us the day before we were due to go back for the results of the tese that 'his balls took a lot longer to drop than his brothers' her exact words, they did drop without a need for surgery not long after he started walking... but damage must have been done to them while they were undescended, with no room to develop normally.

The fact tat he had an elevated fsh they said suggested the brain knew there was a problem and was trying to rectify it. We should have had histology results after the tese,but for some reason the lab was slow in sending them back and by the time we saw the consultant again we'd already decided that it's pointless knowing what histology says as we don't want to put ourselves through another random tese and can't afford the more expensive mtese and anyway that has no guarantees of success. It's way too emotionally draining. I had pinned all my hopes on the tese working that when it didn't it was such a blow.... It floored me for days

 

[wibble wobble]

It looks like this is how you can do the facebook group and just set it to private
https://www.facebook.com/groups

Has the group been set up yet?

 

[Deb111]

We were just told it is likely that hubby has always been like this - it's nothing that's suddenly happened - chances are he was born that way, with only a small amount of the sertoli cells being any good

 

[Pink Lolly]

After our SSR, we were told that dh has maturation arrest where he produces sperm but it dies before it matures. They couldn't tell us the cause but said it could be genetic. His testosterone levels were fine, but fsh was on the high side xxx

 

[snd80]

FET booked for Valentines day! xx

Yay Deb! Everything crossed for you!!!

My appt got changed to V-Day too, so maybe it will be a good day!

Hope everyone is doing well!!! to all!

 

[WANBMUM]

My hubby had some form of damage to his tubes, causing scar tissue. They think this was either caused as a result of x ray damage, where he wasnt protected correctly or by an operation issue. They can't confirm.

 

[deafgal01]

to Deb and snd on your upcoming appointments/FET.

What's the update on the facebook private/secret group?

 

[raelynn]

I was going to leave it up to SunUp since it was her suggestion but I can make it if you all want. What should we call it?

 

[MJ73]

Hi again,
Deb so excited for you, have my fingers and toes crossed for you. Well we got our SA results, back to zero. Still waiting on the biochemical analysis which may or may not give some idea as to why. Could I ask you if you have gotten a reason for your OH's azoospermia, or just a plain diagnosis? Your answers would be greatly appreciated. Hearing you all talk about 'Helping the stork' I almost bought it but we haven't even had a biopsy yet. I guess I should wait but its not a bad idea to consider the option before its landed on us, what do you think?
Thanks girls.

Good to see you back Cosita. We were never given a reason for DH's azoos, although he does have 1 undescended teste (he'd hate to think I was talking about it) & the one he does have is small (within normal) volume. He does have a Cystic Fibrosis gene mutation, which they hinted (but never confirmed) might be the cause of all his probs. Hope this helps. Good luck xx

 

[MJ73]

Snd; good luck at your appt on VD. How exciting that things are moving along xx

 

[tigerlily1975]

Hello lovelies,

I hope you're all well. Ooh, a secret FB group would be fantastic! Count me in!

Good luck SND and Deb - come on Frostie!

All go here, we had my dad's funeral on the 31st. There was a huge turnout, well over 200 people. There was so much love and fondness for him, it was quite over-whelming. He worked in Breakfast TV here in the UK and one of the presenters wrote a short piece about him in Saturday's Daily Mirror. It was very touching. Now my brother and I are trying to sort out the estate and I'm here finishing up on the packing for our move to South West London. I've just heard that snow is on its way here to North West London (we're we currently live), so that should make Saturday's move 'interesting' to say the least! At least it's all a distraction from thinking about how much I'm missing my dad.

I'm sending out lots of positive thoughts to all... this HAS to be our year!

Big and keep warm!

C xx

P.S. Orange have cocked-up our Broadband, so I might be MIA until we can get it sorted... grrrrr - web developers kinda NEED access to the internet!

 

[Sar187]

cosita-my DH has obstructive azoo and our assumption before surgery which was confirmed during TESE surgery was that the obstruction was caused from scar tissue leftover from hernia surgeries DH had when he was little, he had to have a hernia/hydrocele removed/fixed on the left side when he was 5 months old and one on the right side done when he was 4 years old. After doing the TESE the Urologist confirmed that not only was there a lot of scar tissue around and blocking the vas deferens there was also a lot of scar tissue around the epididymis pretty much making it twice as impossible for sperm to go anywhere from the testicles. Luckily testicular tissue was perfectly healthy!

Deb-Wow your FET is really moving! so excited for you and praying so hard for you that everything goes well!

Tiger it is overwhelming to see a turnout like that. My Dad's funeral almost 2 years ago was the same way, we couldn't believe how many people there were. Try and get some rest as well dealing with everything can be very exhausting! Hugs!

I know I've missed some things so I hope everyone else is doing well!