Experience with Dr Shapiro at the Reproductive Biology Associates

Thanks for your answer!! So you were already in a fertility treatment and it didn’t work out? Were you misdiagnosed by your former doctor? May I ask at which clinic you had been so I can avoid them, haha…

Jokes aside, I’m looking forward to our appointment. I think I just go with the first impression and my gut feeling. Having said that, I still will see other specialists in order to have something to compare. Maybe someone here would also like to share their stories of conceiving with azoospermia such as treatment options, costs, success rates, etc.

Hello ivfnew,

which treatment options you and your husband will need depends on the type of azoospermia he has. While men with obstructive azoospermia have sperm production but do not expel sperm in the ejaculate, patients with secretory azoospermia do not have any sperm at all which is why the treatment would be different in each case.

In the first case, the indicated treatment would be testicular biopsy with IVF-ICSI. ICSI is the ideal IVF procedure because only one sperm is needed for each egg to be fertilized. In addition, it does not require that the spermatozoa have good mobility since it is the embryologist himself who introduces the spermatozoa into the egg.

In the latter group, if spermatogenesis is not recovered with different treatment options, using donor sperm is recommended. Read more about your pregnancy options with azoospermia here: Can a Man with Azoospermia Get a Woman Pregnant?

Hope this helps,

all the best.