WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 2001: Re: +1 Year TTC, how what?

Re: +1 Year TTC, how what?

From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:15:55 -0500 (CDT)

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I would suggest going to see a Reproductive Endocrinologist (an OBGYN with special training in infertility) s/he can refer you to a place that can do a semen analysis, which is what your husband has to have done. If there are no REs in your area, a general urologist is a good place to start. When you call for the appointment, ask if they specialize or treat male infertility. An andrologist is a urologist with additional training in male infertility, but you don't need one of those unless there's a problem

FWIW, my husband is the epiotme of good health as well. He's 26 and had never even had to take antibiotics until last October, and he had a dismal semen analysis. We discovered that it was because of some supposedly harmless chemicals he was working with. As soon as he changed jobs, we got pregnant after 3 1/2 years of trying. He's since been retested and his SA is normal.

At Mon, 25 Jun 2001, wondering wrote: >
>So it's been a little over a year since we've been TTC...the doc says
>since I seem to check out fine on the usual stuff and have very normal
>28 dayish cycles that before any more invasive testing is done my
>husband has to be "checked out". Trouble is, I don't know where to send
>him - he's never, ever sick, and he doesn't have a family physician. Do
>I just send him to a general practioner? Or do we need a specialist of
>some sort? DH has never had any injuries, diseases (no mumps, no STDs),
>never fathered any children (never tried), and is the epitome of good
>health. I had to go to a general practioner for my last check up as my
>normal Ob/Gyn is no longer in town (and all the others I wasn't
>comfortable with) and the GP I went too wasn't too helpful and didn't
>offer any recommendations or referrals. Since I was far from impressed
>with the GP that I went to (even though I'd been to him before and happy
>with him) I don't really want to send DH to him.
>
>Also - what will DH's first appointment likely (or should) involve?

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