Forum: Male Factor

Hi everyone, My husband recently took the SCSA test and got results of DFI at 29.7% and HDS at 3.1%. For the most part he lives a healthy life style- he does not smoke, drinks moderately, exercises regularly and eats a healthy diet. He has not been exposed to any harmful chemicals and does not...

We just found out this week that my hubby has non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and therefore he is not producing sperm at the level of the testis. (i.e. no blockages, hormone levels normal except for FSH which is way high at 35). We are scheduled for a testicular biopsy (TESE) on April 21st to see...

DH had two SA done- 3 months apart. These are the results from both, though there seems to be some improvement, it still extremely low. There was sperm agglutination in both samples. He is seeing his doc next week, but we are looking for suggestion on being able to improve these numbers 1st SA...

My husband had varicocele surgery 3 months ago and he just had his follow-up semen analysis. His analysis before the surgery was 9,000 count and 0% motile for the first analysis and then 2mil count 0% motile the second time. Now the analysis post-surgery is 1.3mil count and 4% rapid, 1% slow....

Hello! My DH & I started going to the RE since late Dec 2011. According to SA analysis, DH has low motility (around 30%). So RE recommended DH to take some supplements, plus he's taking a few extra. But to my disappointment, his numbers didn't even go up a little. In fact, during the 2nd IUI...

I'm 20 years old and I had the surgery a little over a month ago. Things have improved since then from what I can see, but my doctor doesn't want me to do a semen analysis until august. The only problem I had was the motility of my sperm, and to be honest I'm sort of a pothead. The doctor said this...

My wife and I have been TTC for four years. You all probably know the ups and downs of that. We finally decided to try IVF with PGD. She's just 41 and I'm almost 45. 3 miscarriages over those years with no pregnancy recently. We did a one-month cycle (no estrogen priming). Got 12 eggs,...

We Joined to participate and learn from others here. Husband and I are currently in the throes of Primary (In)Fertility, which takes much Fortitude; hence the username: Fertiltude! :-) We're finding that groups like this and humor... and healthy dark chocolate are the best medicine. Recently, my...

Just has our second SA and we went from 1.8 million to 6.8 million in 3 months! Morph is at 5% and Motility is at 38%. DH has been on Folgard and 50mcg of Zinc daily. This has helped us to get closer to doing an iui. However our Dr. is willing to try iui now with Chlomid. We decided to go 2 more...

My husband had a vasectomy 5 years ago after his first marriage ended. He had one child (his swimmers are fine) We are now married and looking to begin the process of having one of our own. I'm 37 with no known fertility issues. I'm wondering if anyone out there has had success with either IUI or...

DH has Klinefelters and I am trying to find the best urologist for mTESE. We live in the Midwest. Any advice? Any success stories (i.e. sperm found during mTESE)? I have heard good things about Dr. Silber in St. Louis, Dr. Sandlow in Milwaukee, and Dr. Sabanegh in Cleveland. Also, Dr. Schlegel...

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for approximately 1 1/2 years with no luck so far. We decided to go see a doctor about it, so we went to my wife's OB/GYN and she sent me to get a semen analysis, and my wife to get an HSG. My wife's HSG came back with blockage in her right fallopian...

Hi, My husband and I are trying our second IUI this month, then if it doesn't work, he is going to have a varicocelectomy performed. This is supposed to help with his lower sperm counts, low morphology, etc. My question is for anyone who is familiar with this procedure. How does it work, what...

Ok everyone, I'm new to the site and I'm looking for some advice. So here's our story, my DH has 2 kids from a previous marriage and had a vasectomy. He had a reversal done 2.5 years later and we went for his follow up and semen analysis 6 weeks later he had "millions of sperm" (that's all of the...

Hello, We have male factor infertility, and I'm wondering if anyone has had any success with conceiving naturally? My husband began taking FertilityBlend about a month ago, and I'm hoping that it will help us. Does anyone have any success stories with conceiving naturally? Please share! Also,...

So short back story is that my husband and I have been TTC for almost 3 years, did IVF a year ago that ended in a chemical pregnancy. Evey thing is okay with me, he just has a super low count. His count has been between 600,000 to 2 million. We took some time off, got licensed to adopt through...

We are trying to have a baby, and here is our short sad story. My wife had tube infection; and consecutively ‘Essure’ procedure was done to block the tubes. We were recommended to go for the IVF. We tried with my wife’s eggs, when she was 37; but all past three IVFs had negative results. ...

I had a varicocelectomy preformed last friday...yes, that was Friday the 13th of October. Not a lucky day (to some) but hopefully it will be a lucky day for me and my wife. I started this thread to talk to others who had also made it through this operation. The recovery period seems to be a...

New to Fertile Thoughts... I am a 28 yr old male and DW (who is 26) and I have been trying for over two years now. She has PCOS and her old Doctor made us try for a year before prescribing her for 6 regimins of clomid. She never tested me. DW ovulated every month like normal and every month we...

Hi everyone....my DH and I have been on a long road, and finally have an answer. He did an SA at the beginning of September and came back with less than 2m count and 18% morphology. Funny thing is, we had 2 miscarriages this year, one at 5wks and one at 9wks, so to my doctor's amazement, we had...

Hi. Is it possible to test sperm count at home?

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing as best you can under the circumstances of needing to come to these forums. Its not a good thing that brings us here. My fiancee and I got pregnant after 11 months of trying (I have extremely irregular cycles) and I suffered an early miscarriage. Soon after...

Has anyone been pregnant naturally or with ivf/icsi whose DH has high sperm DNA fragmentation test? My DH has >30% high dna fragmentation test and I am wondering what to do. Our first ivf/icsi, we just had a day 2 freeze, 2 cell embryo and the second ivf/icsi, no fertilization. DH is not...

ledies, I m jeeo 28 dh 28 with very low count less then 0.1 millon ,I am ok in all ft reports, we done icsi in sep 2011 and I got pg ,after 2 months when heartbeat also dedected I misscarige,bc feuts stop growing and beating ,, so now we wating 4 FET in march 2012 , as I misscarige becuse ivf pg...

Our first RE said we would not conceive without IVF/ICSI. Past Results count: 9million per ml motility: 10% morphology: 4% ...