So I left off my first post with me having PCOS and my feelings afterwards. The RE we were seeing suggested that before she treats me that Keith my husband should get a SA (semen analysis) just to make sure that he didn't also have a problem. I remember saying sure I know he's good. Keith is 6ft tall about 160 lbs and has always been in great health. You know, eats right, exercises, and like to be active. Well about a week later we get the results for his SA and much to our surprise they came back with NO sperm. None what so ever. How do you have no sperm? Maybe a low count, slow ones, or even weird ones, but no sperm? Of course my first question was,"So what now?" She suggested that before I get treated that we have Keith see a urologist. The first one we saw put Keith on Clomid. I know I thought the same thing. Isn't that a treatment for women? Well turns out it does the same thing for a guy.
It takes the male body about a 100 days to cycle through sperm production. So we wait 3 months and nothing, then 3 more months and nothing, and 3 more months and nothing. When you are a couple that are trying to conceive a baby 9 months might as well be 9 years. It seems to creep by.
Our choices now seem to be, well shrinking. We went to a male infertility specialist in St. Louis and she believes that Keith has a genetic disorder where he is missing a part of his Y chromosome. The one that tells him how to make sperm. This can only be confirmed with a biopsy which we are currently scheduling. There are 3 types of this disorder. The names escape me, but depending on which type you have you may or may not have good chances of finding any usable sperm for IVF.
If you have type #1chances of finding sperm for IVF is 75%
#2 50%
#3 25%
Hopefully his surgery will provide some hope for us.
No comments:
Post a Comment