@B Ware hey man. Your story kinda hit home with me. I made a long post in this thread about how I thought the GH acted as an antidepressant and it’s regenerative properties and how it completely changed my life. In that post I think there were a few things I left out that I don’t really feel like sharing but would it be ok if I asked about the outcome of the IVF and what you went through. If you want to PM me that’s cool.
Sure... and it sounds like you may be going through IVF or may be thinking about it. If that’s so I’m sorry as IVF is rough to say the least. It will break you mentality, spiritually, physically and most definitely financially as I spent $37k last year which I might add insurance doesn’t cover anything coded as “fertility”. Or at least mine doesn’t.
I’ll try to get this in one post to not clutter this great thread so this may be kinda long.
After the wife and I got married I decided to go to a urologist as I always felt that something may be wrong with me. I’ve been VERY sexually active since the age of 15 and can count on one hand how many times I’ve worn a condom so figured something was up.
That urologist visit confirmed my worst fear. I had 0 sperm in my sample. Going home and telling my wife I couldn’t give her the family she always dreamed of was at the time the most heart breaking thing I’d ever been through.
I wasn’t going to let that stand without seeing my options if there were any. There were but they were long shots. Doc put me on ALOT of hcg (3000iu 3x a week) for 6ish months. Again, insurance wouldn’t cover hcg and it was costing me $330 a week. Luckily I found goodrx and that knocked it down to $113. After that 6 months I went back for another sperm sample. Another heart break as it still came back with 0 sperm. Doc said I had one last Hail Mary. It’s called TESE surgery where they put you under and cut you open and go digging for sperm.
It’s as painful as it sounds and cost 13k and it wasn’t even a 50/50 chance they would find sperm. They did though so it was worth it. During this time my wife has been going through IVF for months with her meds and injections. While I was getting cut open my wife was at the hospital across the street and they were extracting her eggs. They took my boys immediately across the street and fertilizered her eggs. Now comes more heart break. At first we had 28 embryos. Every day for 7 days they called and that number went down ALOT. It broke the wife and I. On the last day we didn’t even want to answer the phone. We ended up with 3 good embryos for IVF in the end.
First round of IVF we got pregnant and were over the moon. It’s a boy! His name was Owen. 11 weeks into pregnancy we lost him.
Second round of IVF we got pregnant again. 6 weeks later we lost that one as well.
We have one more to try but COVID has effected the hospitals. We are also looking into adoption.
Sorry as I know this is not something someone wants to read/hear but it’s my story.
IVF is successful for a lot of people and we are definitely still trying. It definitely showed me that my wife is my rock and life partner.
I know I mentioned that “I was the problem” and this is true but my wife also has a misshaped uterus which is causing the miscarriages. We haven’t lost hope yet.
I agree that hgh probably does act as an antidepressant. It’s hard for me to say because getting put on trt is also a factor in my mood of course.
