late miscarriage and sperm quality Posted: 05-05-08 18:05pm
Hi there
I recently went to an acupuncture clinic,
as an alternative way to deal with my
fertility issues. I have had two
miscarriages, first at 13 weeks, the
second one at 20 weeks (after a premature
rutpture of membranes at 17 weeks). The
practitioner there said that to eliminate
causes, we should have my husband have a
sperm analysis. As the recomended clinic
is quite expensive, I have some doubts
whether this is necessary, given that the
GP had discarded this as a possible cause.
Could you please let me know if sperm
quality could be the cause, if we have had
a baby deveop normally to 20 weeks, and
post-mortem has confirmed baby was healthy
and the rupture was the cause (albeit
unexplained why rupture happened) in other
words, in those circumstances would you
consider it necessary to test sperm...
many thanks in advance
P.
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Mrs.Owen22
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Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 5
1 miscarriage Posted: 06-10-08 22:00pm
I am a 26 year old female and my husband
and I started the fertility/infertility
journey about 1 year ago. I have had 1
miscarriage and I was about 10 weeks
along. I have confirmed with not only my
OBGYN but my acupuncturist that they feel
my miscarriage was unrelated to my
husbands sperm viability. I have begun
acupuncture to help with my fertility. I
have learned that if your liver is
stagnent that the blood flow needs to be
redirected that way and also to your
reproductive organs. Incidentally, after
my miscarriage and three more months of
trying to conceive with no success I asked
my husband to do a semen analysis out of
curiosity. Now with no relation to the
miscarriage he actually had a very poor
sperm analysis. His count was below 20
million(a man should be at atleast 30
million), his morphology and motility were
at 5%(meaning we had a 5% chance of ever
conceiving, so basically we were lucky to
have had the first pregnancy). So they
recommended he see a urologist, so we did.
They told him that he had a varicocele;
which is a varicose vein that runs from
that abdomen to the scrotem causing a pool
of blood in the scrotum hence frying his
sperm. So he had two options-1.
surgically fix the problem by stenting the
varicose veins that ran to his scrotum or
2. having a varicocele embilization. Both
having above 70% success rate, we chose
the embilization. This option was less
invasive and was less of a recovery
period. We were very successful now
having above 40 million sperm cound and
morphology and motility being above 75%.
I am telling you all of this information
because I have learned that over 70% of
couples trying to conceive find out that
the male is the reason for infertility
problems and 9 times out of 10 it is a
varicocele. So I would say have the
analysis done. It won't hurt to check and
maybe it will help you to conceive easier.
So to get back to your original question,
there have not been enough studies to
prove the correlation between miscarriage
and sperm. My acupunturist said that I
may have a problem with either
implantation or holding the pregnancy past
implantation. It sounds to me like you
may be having a hard time holding the
pregnancy immediately after implantation.
I would speak to your acupuncturist about
that if you haven't already. Good luck
and keep me posted.
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