Say oh for the heck of it that it was determined that I (a male) was sterile. I.E. extremely low sperm count with 100% NON-motility.
What do you suppose might have caused that.
Also… any overcoming such a thing?
Thanks.
I think you mean “infertility.”
Yes, you are right… I mean INFERTILITY. Obviously I do not mean Infertilization as I could not become pregnant because I am a male…
Mr. Obvious. Feel better now? I hope you actually ADD something to your next post. No WAIT!!! Let me answer it for you… “ME TOO!” There ya go! That should hold you for the next month.
Do I seem overly sensitive about this post?!?!? Yeah?!?! :wally:
Uncontrolled crankiness?
Hmm. I suppose genetics is a low possibility.
Actually, I’m in that boat, kind of, to the point where we went through some extensive procedures to be able to concieve. Things like sperm washing and concentration and artificial insemination with the concentrate sperm. (so in my case, genetics might be a distinct possibility for my kids) Then after we had a couple, we thought that a vasectomy would be needless. Wrongo! welcome to the three-kid family!
http://yarchive.net/env/estrogen_mimics.html
This URL contains an interesting discussion of the effects of estrogen mimics on sperm counts. The theory is the estrogen-mimics in our environment (either from diet changes or from pesticides and other pollutants) have caused reduced sperm counts in males. Certainly sperm counts (and in some cases penis sizes) of men and other animals ranging from reptiles to higher mammals) have been decreasing over the last twenty years at least. Feminization of male fish has been documented and is also a concern. Reduced penis size in everglades alligators and in other reptiles has also been documented, but tying these to a particular reason is difficult. Human sperm counts are WAAY lower than they used to be (50% down in 50 years in the US is the oft-quoted figure, from a study released in the early eighties). Some might consider this a good thing. I forget who it was, but a congressman said in a speech in congress a couple of years ago that “every man in this room is half the man his grandfather was.”
Anyway, the diet theory kind of pales somewhat when you consider that this is not confined to the human race.
http://www.earthsky.com/2002/es020928.html
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn18/wn18-1/wn18-105.html
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/newsviews/research/
http://whyfiles.org/045env_hormone/main2.html
http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/pr229m.html
Then, there are some that dispute the decline in sperm counts, based on these two papers. Fisch, H. 1996. Semen analysis in 1,283 men from the United States over a 25-year period: no decline in quality. Fertility and Sterility 65(May):1009.
Fisch, H., and E. Goluboff. 1996. Geographic variations in sperm counts: a potential cause of bias in studies of semen quality. Fertility and Sterility 65(May):1044.
This year or early last year, some USGS scientists found that actual estrogens (instead of estrogen mimics) released through our waste-treatment plants (in large part from birth control pills) may be a big part of this picture. Apparently women take the pills and then pee a lot of the estrogen right into the toilet, where it eventually flows downstream. Having trouble finding a link on that, but it was in the papers.
Fishhead
Obviously you did not mean “infertilization” as it is not a word.
You know, you will find significantly more information if you use the correct word in your searches.
Wow, don’t jump on the poor guy - assuming it’s not hypothetical, that can be a really horrible bit of news to learn. :rolleyes:
There are a lot of causes possible. Has the hypothetical person had more than one sperm analysis, or just one? Damage to the specimen could have caused the 0% motility rate, but the low count is another factor. How low? Did he have any childhood diseases (mumps, especially)
http://www.ivf.com/shaban.html goes over a lot of causes of male infertility. There are treatments for some, some not. However, even without a cure for the actual problem, there are advanced medical procedures to create preganacy with sperm from males with extremely low counts (but some motility) I know we (I used to work in an embryo culture lab) had a couple once for ISCI IVF that the male had three living sperm cells in the sample. The wife did get pregnant. (ISCI is basically using a tiny needle to insert a sperm cell into the female’s egg to cause fertilization, commonly used in cases with low motility sperm, among others)
Feel free to email me.
-Cassie
This is not in the Pit, so I don’t know if I should respond, but I’m not the one who jumped on anyone. A Google search turns up more than 1 million sites for “infertility,” so using the correct term is definitely important to get an answer to the question.
Actually you are VERY correct. I am sorry for my previous post. I mistyped with a word that does not even exist. My appologies to you chula.
some medicines can cause the problem. A co-worker’s husband has a rare condition which is treated with drug usually used in cancer treatment. He was initially told if he stayed off the drug for six months his sperm count would rise back to normal and the couple then could safely attempt to get pregnant.
Unfortunately, the doctors were wrong. He is infertile and they are now using artifical insemination.