my hubby had his take down in 2004, and we have a normal sex life and two sons ( prior to surgery), now that our youngest is in pre-k, we want to try for child number three, but after two years of trying, we have yet to concieve, we think the jpouch has left him sterile/ very low sperm count, he has ejaculate at orgasm, but even when we have sex during my fertile time, we dont concieve??? we are planning to see a urologist next week, has anyone else experienced this issue? and if so, what methods worked for you to concieve???( interuterine insemination??? which is one of the ways we are thinking might work for us???)

have you looked in the pregnancy forum?
you may want to repost there.
it is one of the risks that men and women are aware of prior to surgery.
i had my son before surgery. he got UC when he was 16, i could have passed it on to him. they have identified the gene.
watch your children's diets and talk to them at an appropriate age about symptoms. my son had rectal bleeding for quite some time before he told us. he assumed it was a hemmerhoid.

thank you, and yes we did a genetic screening and found a mutant gene in my husbands bloodline, so we made copies for our entire family so that all children can be tested at age 7, so far it has skipped some of the children so it stops there, thank GOD, but the rest is a waiting game, his family gene passes down FAPS/Colon Cancer, so thankfully the jpouch is a life saver, but this sterility thing is something we have to figure out, so that the men in the family can store their sperm prior to surgery from here on out, thanks for the reply and i will repost on the pregnancy section. have a great week.

I would recommend going to a fertility specialist rather than the urologist, because that is where you would end up in the long run. Generally, no conception after a year of trying is infertility, and with the surgical history, only six months is needed before seeking fertility advice. You both need to be worked up because even though he is the one with the surgical history, and you have conceived before, it is not impossible that you have developed fertility issues in the meantime.

The sooner you get the ball rolling on this, the sooner you can be on your way to conception. The urologist is not equipped to treat you both. All he will probably do is order a sperm count/motility test. If that is normal, then you need testing too.

Jan

thank you so much, we had the sperm count done today and all is normal, and i had my physical last month and all was normal, so just as an added boost, my doctor said that she will prescribe me clomid to help things even though i ovulate regularly, she did say it just boils down to timing and consistancy, which is something that we didnt have much of because of hubbys career, but now things are changing timewise and so i am totally positive that it will all fall into place, thanks so much for the info.

Two years of unprotected sex and no conception is enough to see a fertility specialist and I am not sure that taking Clomid should be the first step unless your physical included an HSG to rule out blocked tubes. If you have blocked tubes, all the Clomid in the world will not help. I don't mean to burst your bubble, as it may well just be timing and consistency. Of course, you have to be having intercourse when you are most fertile during your cycle to get pregnant. Age also factors in, since we are at our peak fertility from around 15 to 25, then it is downhill after that.

But, the good news is that the sperm count was normal, and I would assume that the motility was normal also, or you would have been told otherwise. That is very, very good news!

Good luck and have fun trying!

Jan

The infertility thing is so maddening.

We went about 2 1/2 years without conceiving, and my wife's OB put her on clomid 50 mg. She did 3 months at 50 mg and no pregnancy. She took a couple months off it (talk about hormonal while on it :-) and then they bumped her to 100 mg. Bam! She was pregnant and we have a wonderful 4 1/2 year old daughter.

Then, we started trying again about 6 months later and we just got pregnant without assistance after 4 years (of course, 2006 was a bust for baby making - too many sugeries for me). We went to an infertility doc and he did the HSG test and found one tube that seemed to be blocked. But that was a couple years ago.

Actually, what did it for the new baby was having our 4 year old pray. I posted in the Rant and Rave section that she prayed specifically, "God please give Mommy a baby for her birthday." And the new baby is due to be born ON my wife's birthday. Get your other kids to pray - way more effective than infertility docs :-)

thanks so much, my dr told me that my body is functioning normally, and my reproductive system as well, and now that we know his is also, they basically just gave us our most fertile dates, an ovulation tester and gave us instructions on foods to avoid, and said its due to timing, so we are going to try for three months just based on timing, and hope for the best, we also had our two sons pray, i totally believe in that, i have never even heard my dr mention blocked tubes, and we checked for everything, so prayerfully our lack of conception was due to his long work hours, and us not knowing when to do it, lol, thanks so much for everything, and i will keep you all posted on how things go, GOD bless you all.