My husband has a low sperm count, so I think I can help you a bit
First things first...don't panic
Let me see if I can help at all
A normal sperm count is called Teratozoospermia. This would be a count of at least 20 million per 1 ml of semen
A below normal count is called oligozospermia
A count of nothing is called azoospermia.
DON'T PANIC
firstly, you should have produced a sample and taken it to the clinic within an hour not 2!! You should have abstained from sex or masturbation for at least three days before the sample day. On the way there you should have put it in your bra or somewhere else so that it stays at body temperature. Ideally however, it is best to produce the sample at the clinic so they get it straight away.
So assuming that at the least your husband has a low sperm count what can be done to help.
Well sperm are very sensitive to environment. Get you man to stop smoking, drinking, avoid caffein, get out of the hot bath and start taking follic acid, zinc, vitamin C and selenium. follic acid can improve the quality of sperm by 75%. So for example if you get 10 sperm from a sample you want the few you have to be tip top condition don't you.
Very very few men produce no sperm at all, and what i mean by that is a man who has a vasectomy continues to make sperm in his body, he is just preventing it from exitting, so there is a chance that your husband is producing sperm, but that it is not getting to the penis for whatever reason. if this is the case, he should have a testicular biopsy to see if there is sperm in the testicle, if so, no problem, you can have IVF with ICSI where they will operate to retrieve the sperm and inject it straight into the egg. Then you will have a baby of your own
sometimes a man can ejaculate, but the sperm goes back into the penis. I don't remember what this condition is called, but they can testfor it. What they do is get you two to have sex, or get him to masturbate, then they ask him to pee. If sperm is in the urine, he is clearly able to produce sperm. I don't recall how they do fix this though.
so you see it is not hopeless at this stage. I will say this however, you should have been told all of this by a doctor when you got your results. You cannot give out this information without fully explaining what they mean and where you go from there. Therefore, I would leave that clinic. Or at least seriously consider somewhere else when it comes to IVF should that be the case.
now, it is very important that you look after your husband right now. I can't stress that enough. This can work to make you stronger, it certainly has for me and my husband. He is going to feel terrible for a long time, and you just have to accept that. Now is the time to be strong for him, not the other way around. Right or wrong, men associate sperm count with virility. This is absolute rubbish, but they just do. He will be feeling inadequate and so i urge you to gently keep things going in the bedroom. I can't stress that enough. Not having sex can be as damaging to a low sperm count as having too much. Get him to take his supplements, perhaps some acupuncture and move on to the next step which should be making absolutely sure he has no sperm. The only way to kow this is by a testicular biopsy so push for it strenuously. Doctors are not God, don't be afraid to push it is your lives we're talking about!!! Now is not the time to be talikng about donor sperm it is too damaging to your relationship at this stage, wait for the definitive answer, then gently talk about it.
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