My husband and I have been trying to conceive for 2 years?

Question

I have been married for 3 years, I am 24 and my husband is 27. We have been trying to conceive for about 2 years. He went to urologist and was told he had only 8 sperm, which where all dead. The doctor told my husband you will not be able to have children,there is no hope without 1 live sperm. We had a very hard time dealing with this but we got through it. I was not so sure about what the urologist told my husband so I bought my own microscope and tested him again 6 months later and I definitely see movement in his s***n. There is not allot of movement but I see some so this has to be live sperm right? They are very small and are not moving in a strait line, more of a wiggling motion. I'm not sure if I should be happy about this or not but having some live sperm is better than none, right? I guess i wanna know, do we have a chance for a child as long as there are some live sperm even though they are not moving strait? thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Your husband could very well produce a few sperm, but not enough for conception to be likely.  While moving sperm is definitely better that no moving bodies, there are other factors involved.  The sperm must be normal, and move in the right direction- not in circles or just wiggle around.  If the total count is not high enough, the odds of conception go down.  If the numbers of healthy sperm are low, the odds go down again.  A count of only 8 just doesn't look good, no matter how you look at it.  The only option I can see for you having a child of your own would require in-vitro fertilization of a highly specialized type- which would inject the sperm directly into the ovum.   And he's got to produce live sperm on the spot for that to be possible, as well.  It's just not likely to happen the old fashioned way.  You and your  husband need to see a fertility specialist for a full workup to determine if he's producing sperm and in what condition.  Then you can explore all your options.  In the meantime, you and he will feel better if you aren't trying to count them under the microscope.  That's just a prescription for driving yourself nuts.  They may never figure out why he's not producing enough sperm, and they may not be able to improve matters either.  So that's something else you and he might need to come to terms with.  Sorry, I wish I could offer you more hope.  

Answer 2

If you think he may have live sperm, it only makes sense to go to another specialist and see what they say. How else will you know?

Answer 3

wow you checked his sperm

lol

well theres all sorts of moving stuff in a guys ejaculate because its fluid and bacteria maybe germ who knows wuts in a guys stuff just have fun and if you cant have kids why not adopt being a mom doesnt mean you have to have a kid pop out of you.

Answer 4

Uhm, I don't think doing the testing on your own would help you a lot if you really wanna achieve concrete results with your husband's potency with his sperm.

By default, a man's sperm should have an average of 4 million in about a spoonful of ejaculation.

It's definitely best if you seek second opinion from another urologist. This way, you will never have to do the job of finding in microscope a moving sperm in your husband's s***n, which could give you false hopes and you end up having frustrations in the process. You may want to let the medical specialists take care of your husband's problems and once it's sorted out, then probably you could be given a sound advice in bearing your own offspring.

If at any case things don't go well, then you and your husband should communicate on your next plans if you are to sustain a family given his medical condition.

Answer 5

Those are definately live sperm, and sometimes in a droplet, they don't go any where, because there is no where to go!

If the tails are rotating, which might look like wiggling,depending upon your micrscope, they are energized and healthy.

There are ways of upping the sperm count, which doctors don't bother to tell you, and here are some of them.

1. The testicles are outside of the body because they do their best work at 96.6 deg. ..2 deg. below body temperature. Putting it blunt, his balls need to be cool to work well. If your bed is too hot with a heavy comfortor, he needs to be cooler. I don't mean for him to be uncomfortable at night, but cooler. His under shorts should be boxers so that his balls can drop away from his body and cool while he gets warm during the day,,whatever work that he does.

2. Taking a Zinc suplement will up his healthy sperm count as well as increasing the prostrate portion of the semem, which is mainly lactose (milk sugar), sterile selene solution, some protien similar to egg white, and rich with zinc, magnezium and calcium to up the PH of the solution. It needs that because the v****a is acidic. This part of the s***n energizes the sperm, feeds it, provides a medium for it to travel in, and makes the vaginal conditions friendly for the sperm.

3. Good rest ups sperm count.

4. Good eating, including fresh fruit ups sperm count.

5. You want to have s*x about every two days, and not wait longer than 3 days. New sperm reach maturity within 3 days, so you want them fresh, young, and healthy. Every two days for his age would mean sperm at all stages of developement, and good fresh healthy ones.

This would be more meaningful around your fertile days, but a consistent steady s*x life makes for better health for him, so also for his sperm.

I think that that there is hope here, and another thing is to keep him out of hot showers and baths! The water needs to be nice and warm, but not really hot!

Sperm don't do heat very good!

The Chineese Gisha's would have their customers soak in a really hot bath for a period of time prior to s*x as a means of birth control. It really does take down sperm!

Hoping the best for you, and would love to know the outcome

Me! :- )

Answer 6

why dont you see another urologist then? ur a weirdo for microscoping your husbands s***n though.....get another opinion  

Answer 7

If i were you i would adopt a healthy child.

you are obviously a mature person looking to further your relationship and take life to the next level but sometimes its best not to push things that nature wont work with.

yes you want a child, i understand that 100% but would you risk getting a deformed child or going through a miss carriage ?

many things can result from a damaged or defective sperm.

many people will argue this and say that it cant cause any major defects or problems but i think that you should get a broad view on this seeing that this might be your child and if there is room to argue there is room for error...

deformed or  half dead sperm = safe trip through uterine lining + sufficient nourishment for egg............... healthy baby ???   :S