Azoospermia

[Azoivf]

Hi,

Has anyone got any stories about your experience with the Liverpool Womens hospital please? And also NHS funding?

We have heard a lot of stories about how unsuccessful liverpool can be and a few people has mentioned the IVI clinic in Madrid. Apparently they have a very high success rate.

Back to our current progress, my partner has to have an operation to see if the can retrive sperm through a biopsy, but we are still under the investigation process! I have been told we could potentially be stuff in the investigation for month and have to go through hurdles.

Hope someone can help.

[Loublou1985]

I’ve had my first successful ivf cycle at Liverpool Women’s. Staff been great, my cycle was private as my bmi was too high plus my partner already had a child with a previous partner. I would highly recommend Liverpool women’s to anyone. Can’t fault the service. Wish u luck x

[Azoivf in reply to Loublou1985]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply. And congratulations with your success.

My partner results said that he had azoospermia and that his gandotropin stated that he has moderate testicular failure. Not really sure what this means.

[Hidden]

Yep i had 2 rounds of ICSI at the Womens due to partner having azoospermia. We got sperm from Microtese op at Aintree hospital. But both rounds of ICSI were unsuccessful. I couldn't fault the Womens either. Amazing hospital and took care of us every step of the way. Its amazing how caring the staff are. We didnt get funding as i have a son from a previous relationship so we paid privately X

[Azoivf in reply to Hidden]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. That doesnt seem fair having to go private just because you already got a child.

We havent got any, but it feels like it taking forever.

Why did you have to go to aintree if you dont mind me asking?

X

[Hidden in reply to Azoivf]

That's just where the Urologist carries out the surgery X

[Azoivf in reply to Hidden]

Ah ok, and did you have to take the samples to womens hospital?

How long is the investigation period? And did you have some form to.fill?

I have also heard they look into your finances etc? Is this true?x

[Hidden in reply to Azoivf]

Yes i drove to Womens with the sample. Took 6 months to get a date for the op. Ive filled in so many forms i cant remember and no they didn't check my finances x

[Kyell2]

Hi. I know exactly how you feel.

We had a diagnosis of azoospermia too and it seemed to take forever before we could have the surgical sperm retrieval.

Before we got there they did some blood tests and then other genetic tests. Have you had those already?

Once those are back you should be ok to have the op scheduled.

Like One2One we didn’t use the NHS but did it privately, but that was just down to my OH’s impatience, but even that took a while.

I hope you get answers soon xx

[Azoivf in reply to Kyell2]

Sorry thought i replied back tour message, but replied to everyone 😂x

[Ladypii in reply to Azoivf]

Hi Azoivf,

How did you get on? My husband and I are in the same situation, except to speed up the process a bit we got all the tests done privately (cost about £1000) and got the private urologist to write a letter to our gp to be referred directly to an nhs fertility clinic. We had our first appointment with an nhs consultant yesterday and because we’ve had all the tests done he’s referred us to the IVF clinic but we’ve asked him to put us forward for nhs funding to have ivf at a private clinic. I’m not hopeful as we’ve been given like a 10% chance of them finding any sperm but st least then we can move on and consider adoption etc if or when we are ready xx

[Azoivf]

We have been thinking a lot about going privately just to take a lot of pressure off and not live on so much dates and clock watching.

Not sure how much all would cost though.

I know i need checks and my partner needs an op, thats all i know to be honest then the IVF.

He has had his genetic resulta etc and they were fine.

It the gondatropin that shows the moderate testicular failure.

How far along are you now? Or have had your treatment?

Xx

[Kyell2 in reply to Azoivf]

The surgical sperm retrieval itself was just under £3000, so expensive. If you’ve already started with the NHS then I’d ask them what their waiting list for the op is and ask to get on it as soon as you can. I’ve seen other ladies say that the wait was only 4-6 months in some areas which isn’t long in IVF time.

Our retrieval was unsuccessful but we had a lot of warning signs that it would be that way because of the genetic results. A random chromosome issue that they found with the genetic tests meant he has never produced sperm.

We had no choice but to go for donor sperm which was a difficult decision and 18 months later we’re just about to start our first treatment.

I think on the whole though the op has quite high success rates and they can usually find sperm to freeze.

It’s a really tough thing to go through for your OH so expect a few down days along the way.

We’re all here if you have any questions xx