Hi yes happy to share with you, well the bloods that were done showed hormone levels normal for DH, so we then went onto having the biopsy. His sperm analysis both times showed zero, not even one. They could have timed both EPU and his Biopsy the same day, but to be honest, they held little hope to find any sperm at all. The urologist operated and went straight to the epididymus first as thats where the most mature sperm are and thats where he found all great samples.
If he did not find anything there he was then going onto seeking in the testies.. Very hard to determine if he had a blockage as we are talking micro surgery... So my only advice for you is go for the best ones in the epi first as they freeze better as well... If we are unsuccessful with IVF we will inquire into micro surgery but its very intricate...... hope this helps you and keep me informed.... cheers Trace x
Last edited by tracey2010; May 18th, 2010 at 10:05 AM.
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I was a bit worried when the FS told us that the biopsy would be done on the same day as egg collection. I questioned the FS and he seems to think that he will find some good sperm, so who am i to argue with him? On a letter that he wrote to our referring Doctor he states that there is a 65% chance of finding sperm when doing a biopsy even if no sperm are present during a SA. Our FS doesn't know why sperm are not showing up in SA. I would love to know why, but i suppose i should be happy that they have found any.
Keep us up to date with how you go on your IVF journey.
Its so reassuring to hear there's some other couples going through the same thing as us.
We have been TTC for 4 years and after much persuading finally DH did a SA to find zero sperm count, twice DH has since had ultrasound, no blockage found and blood tests which were all good, what came up though was abnormal chromosomes, DH is XYY, but to make it worse his two Y chromosomes somehow got mixed up when he was conceived! We went to see a genetics counsellor before going further down the IVF ICSI track and he told us there is no other case of this happening before so couldn't really tell us what to expect! As you can guess poor DH is very upset and now we are waiting for a biopsy to see if there is any sperm
Anyway, what I wanted to know was after we see our FS next week, how long from that appointment does it take to book a biopsy? I know there is going to be lots of waiting with this whole TTC journey, am so over it already thou!
If you go through public system it may take a while as its not emergency surgery, we went private as it was the only way to get things moving quickly.. The cost was not all that bad from memory. We are now paying rent on the frozen sperm which we will take out of their pocket money when they are born ha ha... best of luck with it all.... let me know if i can help any further..... it was nearly 12 months from finding no sperm to having some frozen, most of that time was waiting to see urologist and timing things in between my DH work.
Thats a little ray of sunshine, we will be able to go private too so fingers crossed a biopsy can be done in June, DH plans to take a week off work after the surgery as aparently the bruising and swelling is bad
What was your partners experience?
Thanks again for sharing, while everyone around me is very supportive its good to get advice from people who have had to go through this too.
Hi and glad to help.... My partner was a little sore, but panadol and 3 days rest seen him feeling quite ok.. he said it was well worth the sore goolies for a few days to have sperm... He was very proud indeed. Frozen bag of peas worked well wrapped in a towel. Its not a nice thought for the guys, but well worth it if it will produce a baby of their own, especially if donor sperm is not an option. He was back to normal within a week for sure, best of luck with it,, hope you find lots a good swimmers to freeze. xx
Im glad to see this post! It gives me a little bit of hope that we may be able to concieve! We have only had our bad news in the last few days, and we have a long journey ahead..DH has bilateral microlithasis and atrophy, basically the doctor described his testes as "dead". As you can imagine, we are struggling a bit right now
So reading things like this makes me teary in a good way! Maybe it is possible Thank you for sharing this.
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DH has since had ultrasound, no blockage found and blood tests which were all good, what came up though was abnormal chromosomes, DH is XYY, but to make it worse his two Y chromosomes somehow got mixed up when he was conceived! We went to see a genetics counsellor before going further down the IVF ICSI track and he told us there is no other case of this happening before so couldn't really tell us what to expect! As you can guess poor DH is very upset and now we are waiting for a biopsy to see if there is any sperm 
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