Male Factor Infertility

Wow congrats babykatnz. Great news. All the best for a healthy pregnancy..........Can I ask where you got the horney weed goat and Menevit from? Thanks

Babykatnz do you think that the Goat Weed helped in Conceiving?

Hey There, Jen,

Keep your chin up, mate. Losing weight is not always the easiest task to do.   I would not have thought it would have made any difference if you are a little overweight to qualify for publicly funded IVF. Pity.

I just wish you both the very best on your IVF path.

Go and visit your GP and tell them a friedn tried Duromine to lose weight for IVF...thats what mine put me on to get the weight down faster, once I got to borderline 32 BMI I would have been on my own again, but that worked for me cos thats what we needed to be for IVF anyways.... as it turned out... the Horny Goat Weed and Menevit def did the trick.... 2 blood tests, 4 HPTs and a scan all say I am def preg lol... so had to stop with the duromine... and just after I had picked up 2 months worth even...lol!

yu can get Menevit if you go through FA, we went privately right up until we got the verdict of needing IVF....

And using DP as an example... sometimes the professionals can get it all oh-so-wrong... dont give up!

Oh and I was 36BMI, and have ov'd like clockwork every month... so no issues here either... I have a DS from prior marriage to prove that too!

Hey thanks everyone for your quick and supportive replies!!

I felt really embarrassed saying that I need to lose 30kgs just to qualify...

Will definitely look into duromine. Am upping my walking and have just started winsor pilates too - this weight HAS to go!!!

Besides I would prefer to be slimmer when I get pregnant... and I want to lose the weight regardless!

Hi there,
Our ICSI IVF is due to male factor as well. We are on our second round of IVF now. Also I had to loose weight and yes it is hard. I had already lost some weight before hand, but the moment I found out I had to, for some reason it was a lot harder. It was also upsetting, because although I would never blame my fiance, the fact I had to loose so much weight before I was considered really hurt, as I am perfectly fertile. Once more, I had to do the treatment/drugs/egg collection etc. Of course I would do anything to have a baby with my lovely fiance, but it feels like a kick in the gut when the doctors say oh no, you must loose weight first.
Just stay strong and picture that beautiful baby in your arms at the end of it. It's so worth it.

Just thought I would bump this back up for the New Year.
We have male infertility due to a reversed vasectomy operation done in Mar 07.
We are luck to have some sperm return and although we have pretty good numbers where motility is concerned our count has never been any thing higher than 9million in total.
We have done the vitamins for pretty much a year, and they haven't made that much of a difference.
We are not going to do the IVF or IUI thing.
But I would love to keep chatting with others that are going through this kind of thing as well.
Look forward to chatting with you.

Edited because somehow I managed to post that twice! If only I could be that successful in other aspects of my life !!

Edited by missedge

I know just how olympics feels. We tried for about the same time and ended up at FA.   After DH had biopsy after no sperm count we were told there were no options but to get a donor or adopt. We were devastated,   I still have twinges around pregnant women and babies although its been over 2 years since we found out.   People have stopped asking when we;re having kids now, thank goodness.   I still cry at night sometimes when i thing what could have been[

QUOTE=olympics] Hi all

My partner and I tried to conceive for about 18 months before finally seeking help at Fertility Associates. I was completely shocked to find out that our issue was due to him having a low (pretty much zero) sperm count. Up to that point I had imagined it was all me! We don't know why he has no sperm - everything we could think of seemed to be ruled out by the specialist. (We still suspect that it is due to an illness he suffered as a child that meant he was on antibiotics for 18 years but the specialist seems to think there is no research evidence to support this!) Any way we now find ourselves counting on someone donating sperm to be able to conceive. I can 't imagine the guilt my beautiful man must feel every time we see a baby, or every time I get upset at our situation. He is very private about it and so we haven't told anyone about our circumstances. This makes it a bit of a lonely journey but I respect his need for privacy.
I emphathise with any one in this situation - it is really hard and I wish you all the luck in the world.[/QUOTE]

Edited by topcat

Apparently they wanted to do TESA on my poor man due to a chromasome issue.
We eventually decided against it as it was a pretty invasive surgery to retrieve sperm of which there was a small percentage that there would even be any - think it was 5%
Plus it may have affected his testosterone and he could have had to have testosterone injections for the rest of his life.
We decided the risks far exceeded the success rates and went down the donor sperm path.

This was our 3rd IUI with donor sperm and so far - early days yet - has been sucessful.

Good luck on your journey