Well…I thought that I would be visiting this page and writing to tell you how awesome the results were for my husbands second semen analysis was but instead, I’m doing the complete opposite. We had the second semen analysis done and the results were far worse than the first analysis. I realize that I didn’t give specifics with my last post but in his first analysis, the count was 8 million and in the second semen analysis, the count was 2 million. Normal is considered to be at least 20 million. So this time the RE threw all kinds of information our way. I started hearing things like “you need to freeze his semen because you never know what may happen”. They were basically saying that his count was really know and because they didn’t know why, there was a chance that it would continue to dwindle until we had nothing to work with.
The thought in itself was terrifying but then my logic kicked in and I started asking questions. Why would his count be so low? By the way, we had already done all of the blood work to check his hormonal levels and we also had the genetic panel done. Both of which came back completely normal. Either way, my husband and I felt like there HAD to be an explanation for his low count, despite what the RE said. They told us “you can go to a urologist and they may or may not be able to help”. We immediately went with that option because at this point the RE was telling us point blank that we would have to do IVF to become pregnant.
We immediately got the information on the urologist and made plans to schedule an appointment with them. I felt so defeated after this news. My husband and I simply didn’t understand why this was happening. We couldn’t help but think about all of the people that we knew who drank heavily, participated in recreational drug use, etc. that were able to father children without a second thought. WHY WAS THIS HAPPENING TO US? Then I realized, here I am questioning God…for whatever reason, this is part of our journey, part of his plan for us. No matter how challenging this is becoming, we will walk this journey with out heads held high, knowing that he is with us every step of the way. What else could we do?
In the meantime, we started researching low sperm count and possible reasons that it can occur. We read things about keeping a laptop in your lap, keeping a cell phone in your pocket, wearing tight underwear, taking hot baths or getting in hot tubs. There were soon many things that came up in our research. Now we’re really cautious about the cellphone and laptop thing…those were the only two things that stood out to us. All we can do is make sure we are doing our part…and one of the main things we must do it TRUST GOD.
Psalm 37:5 says “Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.” I am trusting in God and will commit my ways to him regardless of what my circumstances may look like. I cannot allow my circumstances to dictate my faith. I trust you Lord.
Kristen D. Johnson