azoospermia support

[WannabeMam]

I haven’t sought support before now so I’m afraid I don’t know the acronyms. I’m 33 and my husband is 34. We’ve been TTC for 2 and a half years. Initially had sti, blood and sperm tests, NHS never told us our results so we assumed everything was fine.

We carried on TTC for another year without any luck. Went back to the doctors and they did repeat bloods, sti and I had an ultrasound, all fine. My husband had another 3 sperm tests still with no conclusive results from the NHS until after a lot of chasing we finally heard the word aszoospermia. We couldn’t believe it.

Have been on the wait list for NHS urologist for 3 months now with still no appointment letter so have booked a private test which is on Tuesday. We are just hoping and praying to get some answers because after so long we still feel so in the dark. We want to know if it’s definitely aszoospermia, what’s the cause and what are next steps. We are so desperate to be parents.

If anyone has/is in a similar situation would love to know just to not feel so lost.

[AP86]

Hey, my husband has something similar to this. He has very little sperm in his ejaculate and the ones he has are immotile and/or bad morphology. He was given clomid to help for IVF. He took that for like 6 months or so, along with making some lifestyle changes, exercising and did cupping. Thanks to all of that they were able to freeze some sperm. We then did ICSI in 2020, they used fresh sperm as well as the frozen ones and we got 8 fertilised embryos but only 3 survived so those were frozen. We had to do a frozen transfer as I was at risk of OHSS. So they transferred the best quality embryo and we now have our 2.5 year old son! So don't lose hope it can happen! We're going to be trying for number 2 soon hopefully. Good luck in your journey xx

[NIdris]

Hi

We had the same issue and ours was more complicated and got worse (non obstructive azoospermia) my husband had a micro tese and zero sperm found we were so disappointed and been told to look for donor I mever lost hope and kept praying we went abroad for IVF after consultation with urologist been prescribed medication helped to produce late stage sperm but not complete but it was fine for IVF and managed to fertilise some eggs (twice) but both failed they said to poor sperm morphology then we seen local dr and gave someone medication done another IVFand guess what it worked and iam now a mother of 10 weeks old twins god bless.

Never lose hope.

[Jaylaa]

we had similar issue, my husband had MicroTESE and they managed to retrieve some sperm for freezing. I understand your frustration with the slow response from the doctor!

[aamiller405]

My husband has azoospermia. He had a sperm retrieval which was successful and we went on to have ICSI but none of our transfers were successful. In the end we used donor sperm privately and now have a 15 month old. I hope your journey is a lot more simple but I'm sharing mine to show there are still lots of options and ways to make a baby after an azoospermia diagnosis and it was all worth it to get our baby girl x

[Bee_86]

we found out this summer that my partner has obstructive azoospermia.

Since January, he had done 2 sperm tests with nhs, the second concluded azoospermia. Luckily, I had already made an appointment with the best private urologist in the country who then confirmed that it is obstructive.

My partner then had a sperm retrieval which was successful and we got enough frozen sperm for 3 rounds of ivf (icsi). We started ivf straight away, did a fresh transfer and today I am 5 weeks pregnant.

Please do not lose hope 🤍✨💫

[Cotswoldmum]

hello lovely, I’m so sorry you’ve had to put up with this from the nhs, it really isn’t good enough. My husband has azoospermia because of what turned out to be undiagnosed cystic fibrosis (just different mutations to what we know as CF). Effectively he does have sperm but the vas deferons (not sure if that’s how you spell it) - the little bit of tubing that they cut and tie in a vasectomy - are completely missing - so it can’t get out. He ended up having to have his sperm surgically removed which was pretty rough and we had to have icsi. We had our first round on the nhs which was successful, and then we went private for our second child. After a lot of failed attempts, chemical pregnancies, miscarriages and heart break we finally had our second child last year and now have two beautiful girls that I can’t imagine my life without. Basically what I’m trying to say is that azoospermia is a crushing diagnosis, but it’s not necessarily the end of the road, but so keep pushing, or maybe go private if you’re in a position to. Good luck xxx

[Rhubarb5]

so sorry you are going through this. We have been there, you and your husband are not alone. It’s so tough. My husband has azoospermia and we do not know the cause. He had a surgical sperm retrieval which was unsuccessful. We are now parents to our precious girl who was conceived using donor sperm. It was very difficult with the initial diagnosis but my husband talks openly about it now and we have very much accepted it. Feel free to ask me any questions.

[BabyBearx in reply to Rhubarb5]

Hi 👋 We are due to be implanted for 2nd time using donor sperm (first time unsuccessful) My husband has Kleinfelters Syndrome so has Zero sperm. He’s been quite positive throughout our journey though, which is amazing.