Mike, I am putting together a website for males with CF wanting to pursue IVF with ICSI and having sperm extracted via the MESA sperm retrieval method (as well as some others, but less successful for men with CF). My husband and I haven't been through the acutal procedure yet, but we have done all the work ups, he is having his testicular mapping done tomorrow and then on the ninth he is having the MESA procedure done. We are scheduled for the egg retrieval and all that other good stuff in October. It would have been February but his Testosterone, FSH and LH plummeted to single digits immediately after he started using colistin-nebulized (nobody can tell me if there is a connection or not but my gut tells me there is). So now that it is back up, we are on schedule about 6 months later. But anyways, back to the website thing...Would you and your wife be willing to share your experiences, how you felt after the procedures, the pregnancy, and anything else. I am leaving my name and personal photos out of the website because that is what my husband and I both want but I am creating a journal with first names only about our experience thusfar. I want to create a "featured articles/stories" page where males who have CF can share their successes. This is such a new thing that there is almost NO information out there about it. If you and your wife decide you are interested, please let me know. The article, story or Journal entries you two create (if you decide to do it) can be complied however you wish and I can just cut and paste onto my website. I hope to have the site up in about a week or so, so if you want to wait and see it first that is fine with me. If you would like to contact me my email address is division902@hotmail.com
Julie (wife to Mark 24 w/CF)
Julie (wife to Mark 24 w/CF)