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Azoospermia support - why???

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HMum19 · Yesterday 17:41

Hello, we have recently found out my partner has azoospermia after completing 2 semen analysis. We are absolutely gutted, but determined to carry forward to see what the cause is / if there is any hope for us having children.
just wanted to reach out to see if there are any other partners going through similar, I am anxious and worrying about all avenues.
my mind is in overdrive wondering what is the reason, could he have been born with this or something environmental… and I can’t help with hash over the fact he has been exposed to second hand smoke his whole life, his mum lives with him (we have a complicated living situation) and she smokes inside the house over 20 cigarettes a day, doesn’t even open a window, it is something that has frustrated me the nearly 5 years we have been together but he says there is no getting through to her. He also informed me that she smoked over 20 a day whilst pregnant with him. I am holding resentment now wondering if that could be the cause of this as I have read that smoking can be linked to fertility issues.
I guess we might never know for sure, I’m probably just looking for an outlet to blame, but I’m just so so gutted and frustrated for me and my partner.

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problematicpenguin · Today 08:46

So sorry to hear about your husband's azoospermia. We are going through exactly the same thing at the moment too. I totally get why you'd think that about the smoking - I have no idea though whether it is or isn't, but it wasn't one of the things that the andrologist mentioned to us when he asked about what might have caused it.
Nothing he said for us could've been a cause and we really have no idea what could've caused it. That hasn't stopped me from inventing my own imaginary reasons and wondering about all sorts of crazy things we could change in our lives (that I know deep down make no difference) so I think maybe it is normal to look for some blame somewhere!
It's a really tough thing to find out. We have joined a whatsapp support group made by Nexys Fertility which has a lot of people going through similar!
Happy to chat more on mumsnet though too, we are only slightly further along - hoping to do a first micro tese in the next few months

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