I am trying to locate any men out there who have CF and are either going through in infertility process right now, or have had past IVF-successful or unsuccessful- treatment.
I would love to talk a little more candidly and specifically about lab values and any "problems" your doctors encountered, so I think it might be more appropriate to do so by email. If anyone has any information I welcome it. My email address is division902@hotmail.com.
Just a little history, my husband is a 24 year old with CF and congenital bilateral absence of the vas defrens (as most CF males do). We are on an IVF/ICSI list for March. It was suppose to be october, but they had a cancellation so we jumped at the chance. Everything with me checks out great, but the problems we are running into is although we are working with wonderful doctors, they have never dealt with a male with CF and infertility treatment-never. So we are brand new to them and they are like, "oh are these labs normal, abnormal, ok????" They have no clue and neither do I. His FSH levels are .05 (barley a trace) and they should be like 15-20, his testosterone is low about 250 where the norm is 800. They are toying with the idea of putting him on HCG to stimulate testosterone production but they really aren't sure what is the best thing to do now.
So any help, experiences, anything at this point from anyone would be wonderful!
Thank you,
Julie and Mark
I would love to talk a little more candidly and specifically about lab values and any "problems" your doctors encountered, so I think it might be more appropriate to do so by email. If anyone has any information I welcome it. My email address is division902@hotmail.com.
Just a little history, my husband is a 24 year old with CF and congenital bilateral absence of the vas defrens (as most CF males do). We are on an IVF/ICSI list for March. It was suppose to be october, but they had a cancellation so we jumped at the chance. Everything with me checks out great, but the problems we are running into is although we are working with wonderful doctors, they have never dealt with a male with CF and infertility treatment-never. So we are brand new to them and they are like, "oh are these labs normal, abnormal, ok????" They have no clue and neither do I. His FSH levels are .05 (barley a trace) and they should be like 15-20, his testosterone is low about 250 where the norm is 800. They are toying with the idea of putting him on HCG to stimulate testosterone production but they really aren't sure what is the best thing to do now.
So any help, experiences, anything at this point from anyone would be wonderful!
Thank you,
Julie and Mark