Azoospermia

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Hi. Just looking for some advice and anyone’s story who has been through a similar thing. My husband has just been diagnosed with azoospermia and we are currently waiting on referrals to the urologist, genetics and for an ultrasound. We haven’t yet had his blood results back (maybe today) but our GP has already said that there is basically no hope. I haven’t ovulated for the last two months, he has said this can likely be treated but it obviously adds an extra complication. We have no idea whether it’s obstructive or non obstructive but the GP feels strongly that it’s a genetic problem, although we aren’t sure how he knows that it’s non obstructive as the bloods were only taken for the first time yesterday. We are obviously devastated.

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You may get a more balanced and helpful discussion here. Clearly you nor your DH are being unreasonable in any way, so perhaps this isn't the best forum so to speak.

AIBU is a very high-trafficked part of this site and I think the poster’s devaststion is such that she wants a high traffic area so she has more chance of people with experience of this. I get that. I got next to no responses when I was asking about amniocentesis in all the right areas.

I can’t help OP, I’m afraid. But I wish you lots of luck and I hope you get some answers. Here and from the doctors.

Op genetic azoospermia can be either obstructive or non obstructive. Google congenital absence of the vas deferens. So the GP probably isn't saying it's definitely non obstructive, as you say yourself he wouldn't know at this stage.

My dp has obstructive azoospermia, we don't know if it's congenital or caused by an operation he had to his groin area many years ago. Ultimately he had sperm retrieval and we had an anxious wait to find out if the sample taken from his testicles was normal, fortunately it was.

We had ICSI IVF, our second cycle was successful. I won't lie it was a long and stressful journey, but IVF can work well for couples with male factor infertility so there is hope.

My DH has non-obstructive azoospermia and his blood test results did not look good. However, during the sperm retrieval process (Micro-tese), sperm was recovered and used for ICSI. We now have a 2 year old son. Therefore, even if the initial assessment doesn't look hopeful, until the actual op there is still hope. Our doctors were suggesting that we use a sperm donor in our first consultation

I'm so sorry that you have had this awful news.
20 years ago DH had exactly the same diagnosis. It's genetic.
He had a TESA to try to extract sperm but none was recovered.
We considered donor sperm but it wasn't for us. We adopted our 2 children.
I have a friend who's husband had the same diagnosis and they had a baby following ICSI.
There are options. Good luck. I fertility sucks.