Men with a
low sperm count can't get their wives pregnant in the bedroom. This is called male factor infertility, and
the technical term for this is oligoastenospermia. This means that it’s it's
the low sperm count which is the bottleneck in the bedroom, and this is a
common cause for infertility.
Interestingly,
the problem gets flipped when we move from the bedroom to the lab, because in-vivo
is not the same as in-vitro.
When we use
IVF for treating these infertile couples, the bottleneck is no longer the
sperm, because we do ICSI for them, where we inject a single sperm inside an
egg. This means that no matter how low the sperm count is , we can pretty much
guarantee fertilization in the IVF lab.
The irony is that
many of these couples have waited years before they are willing to do IVF.
They try all
kinds of remedies to improve the sperm count – homeopathy, Ayurveda, unani –
you name it !
This means the
wife has often become much older by the time they come for the IVF treatment,
which means the bottleneck now becomes her poor egg quality, rather than his sperm.
This means they
often end up having to use donor eggs, because they wasted their chance of
getting pregnant with her own eggs, because they delayed their treatment and didn't
do IVF with her own eggs when she was young !
You can learn
more about IVF by reading the IVF comic book free at https://www.drmalpani.com/pdf/IVF_COMIC_BOOK.pdf
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happy to provide a free second opinion at www.drmalpani.com/free-second-opinion
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