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Me again - ok so briefly our story in a nutshell is DH has low sperm count and what we can only guess is low motility (believe it or not no one has ever actually told us this, it's what we saw on the results). DH has done repeated sperm tests and found half of them showed 1million sperm (with varying motility, ranging from "non seen" to "some motility seen".) DH also had chromosonal test which was normal.

We have had 2 cycles of ICSI - both so far a disaster. 1st cycle failed fertilisation as there was no sperm in the fresh samples on the day of EC and so frozen was used which was later deemed as "poor quality". 2nd cycle resulted in just 2 mature eggs, both becoming embryo's. 1st ET 1 embryo put back which implanted and I miscarried at 7wks. We have 1 frozen embryo left for which we now have no hope at all.

My query is this - when we went back to the clinic today we were determined to enquire about more tests for DH. It occurred to us tha 18 months into the hell that is infertility, DH had had just a few SA's and 1 blood test. We didn't even know the name of what he has! We thought it was time we had some answers. The consultant acted genuinly offended when DH queried about having more tests done, and kept saying "But why would you want more done?!". We explained we had had no answers and wanted to know why we were having to go through this hell. DH raised the issue of his sperm count and ways to increase it and the consultant kept saying "you can't." over and over! When we pushed for an explanation he gave none except "with a count like that you aren't going to increase it". He got more and more cross with us as we asked more questions until eventually we gave up and left.

DH has made an appointment with the GP to see if he can get a referral to a Urologist at the local hospital to talk it over.

Why does our (arrogant) consultant say we cannot improve DH's sperm count ?!

Jude S - cheers me dears! Advice noted! Will see what I can get DH doing!

Grace - No the consultant has never told us why he thinks it is so low. He seems to think that DH has a low sperm count and that's all we need to know. I had to forcefully ask what it is that DH has actually got and he eventually said it was OATS but seemed fed up with the line of questioning. We were left both very heartbroken because you always want to hope that you can improve a situation and maybe even get a natural bfp. Will defo head off to see a urologist and get some answers, as well as some immune tests and what not through the GP. Thinking we got thrown into ICSI all too quick!

Mistykins - exactly - that's all we want, improvement. Beats me why the consultant seemed so damned certain there was no point in even considering improvement. Perhaps he is thinking that improving things too well might eventually (by way of miracle) result in natural bfp and perhaps the overpaid twonk will lose out on his dollars!