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Well, as some of you may recall my DF and I were diagnosed with azoospermia (0 sperm count!). We've ran some other tests and it turns out that his pituitary gland is sending an excessive amount of "make sperm" hormones to his testes but the doc thinks that for some reason the hormones isn't getting through to them or they just aren't responsive to the hormones. Either that or the testes are receiving the hormones, are producing sperm and he has either retrograde or a blockage of some sort!
Well gee thanks doctor!!! How many years of med school did you do to be able to come up with that friggin' idea!!!!???? What a knob! WE told HIM that when we made the appointment for the blood tests!!! Thats WHY we had him ordered those tests!!! So we could know what tests to do next!!!! Jeez! Ugh, I'm tired of being ahead of this doc!
That was rant #1..... .................. yes... there's another one coming
I feel terrible but, I'm SO ready to seek out either sperm donor or adoption. Before we knew about DF's diagnosis or even suspected a problem we had talked about how much I have always wanted to adopt (I'm adopted) and he agreed. I guess I just figured that expanding our family is what we wanted to do and since adoption was already on the radar it should STILL be on the radar. DF now feels like we can't pursue anything until we have a reason and treatment options and do at least one round of viable treatment. That would take at minimum over a year!! And then it'd be more time to go through adoption or donor options and I just feel like we should save our money (it's so damned expensive!!!) for the treatment options and expand in the family in the meantime with other methods we had previously discussed! Of course I gently let him know how I feel but we're just SO out of sync and I feel like the biggest bitch!!!! EVER!!!!
Well gee thanks doctor!!! How many years of med school did you do to be able to come up with that friggin' idea!!!!???? What a knob! WE told HIM that when we made the appointment for the blood tests!!! Thats WHY we had him ordered those tests!!! So we could know what tests to do next!!!! Jeez! Ugh, I'm tired of being ahead of this doc!
That was rant #1..... .................. yes... there's another one coming
I feel terrible but, I'm SO ready to seek out either sperm donor or adoption. Before we knew about DF's diagnosis or even suspected a problem we had talked about how much I have always wanted to adopt (I'm adopted) and he agreed. I guess I just figured that expanding our family is what we wanted to do and since adoption was already on the radar it should STILL be on the radar. DF now feels like we can't pursue anything until we have a reason and treatment options and do at least one round of viable treatment. That would take at minimum over a year!! And then it'd be more time to go through adoption or donor options and I just feel like we should save our money (it's so damned expensive!!!) for the treatment options and expand in the family in the meantime with other methods we had previously discussed! Of course I gently let him know how I feel but we're just SO out of sync and I feel like the biggest bitch!!!! EVER!!!!
