Causes of sperm issues?

July 16, 2008

What causes subnormal sperm values such as low count (20M), motility (25%)and morphology (2%/strict Krueger)? My husband is healthy, 36 years old, doesn't use hot tubs (maybe twice a year), wears boxer shorts, doesn't bike ride, etc.

What could be causing this? Can anything be done about it? Can he conceive naturally with these values?

thanks.

July 16, 2008

Has he gotten his hormone levels check???

July 16, 2008

Hi Angelfish -- Yes, his hormone levels are all normal. What else do you think?

July 16, 2008

My DH has some similar problems, like with low morph...he never uses hot tubs, wears boxers, doesn't smoke, drinks socially, which is like twice a year. He is a healthy 30 year old. It is so weird, but Christine have him try fertilaid, my DH and I are both taking it, we have heard that it works...you can google fertilaid and read the testimonials on the website. It looked very promising, and LauraM that comes on here her and her DH are also taking fertilaid.

July 16, 2008

what was his fsh levels and did the test for prolactin also....

July 16, 2008

If everything has been normal, and this has been confirmed with two different SA done at least 2 1/2 months apart, then most likely born this way...agree with considering taking male fertility supplements though and/or acupuncture

July 17, 2008

Christine my DH had low motility (only10%). After taking fertilaid for 2 and a half months, his motility went up to 75%-80%. Hope this helps!

July 17, 2008

And by the way, his count doubled and his morphology improved as well!

July 17, 2008

Thanks all. Is Fertilaid safe? Most doctors tend to discourage the use of supplements, esp. when they haven't been proven to help.

July 17, 2008

Fertilaid is all natural so it's not going to do any harm!

July 17, 2008

just a bunch of vitamins that can help the sperm but if they dont they are all vitamins that you would get in food or by taking a multi-vitamin christine, they just put all the ones that can help sperm in high doses in the pills.

They wont hurt anything, i took the bottle to my RE and he said he couldnt promise it would get me preggo but it wouldnt hurt anything either.
Woman_8
Jan

July 23, 2008

Is male infertility easy to fix?

July 23, 2008

depends on whats wrong Jan. Some things can be fixed with diet or vitamins/medication but other things cant be fixed or need surgery.

What kinda issue does your man have?

Mine has a 1% morph so that means that only 1% of his sperm are good shaped, quality sperm. Yikes!
Woman_8
Jan

July 24, 2008

I don't know know if anything is wrong. We have just begun to try to conceive. I am just a freak about this.