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Hi Sasha

Am very sorry to hear this. Yes, this happened to my husband and I. His was a very complicated situation - due part to a genetic defect and part to a botched operation when young. It meant that the only working vas deferens (pipe that connects testicle and penis) he had was taken away at 4 years of age by mistake - he had / has sperm (he had a MESA to have them removed) but they are effectively trapped in his body.

Is this a new situation? I know you already have one little boy

Jenny x

Hi Sasha,

I'm so sorry, I remember getting those same test results for my DH and how devastated I felt. Similar to Jenny my DH has absence of vas deferens due to being a cystic fibrosis gene carrier so no sperm can essentially get out of the testicles. He had soerm retrieval and it was a success - we froze three vials of sperm back in 2011. It was a quick procedure although under a general, a bit uncomfortable but not awful my DH says.

I think he can have a biopsy first to try to extract the sperm and if that doesn't work they do a more invasive procedure ( this is what my DH had).

Don't give up hope yet, there are options, my DH had a fab urologist who did his surgery, bit unusual as it was pre treatment for us so we did it privately before having nhs icsi.

Good luck Hun, wishing you all the luck in the world xxx

Hi again

yes, it is an awful shock - I am very sorry.

We were told it was unlikely we would find sperm and to consider a donor, but we ended up with 18 vials. They can be very wrong. Do not give up hope yet - the operation really is nothing at all physically. My husband had a MESA and the sperm came from the epididymis, so were fully mature. But you can take sperm from testicular tissue too.

Hope you will get better news at your next visit. I know just how hard it feels - like there is a barrier at every stage to something most people take completely forgranted.

Take care

xx