Been here a while but wanting to reintroduce myself.

MrsMMcConnell101014 · January 2016

I will try to keep from rambling and keep this somewhat short.

My DH and I have been together a short 2 years, married for 15 months, have known each other 10+ years. Coming into our marriage I knew my husband had a vasectomy, which I was perfectly fine with. We had talked about looking into our options for trying to conceive and finally made an appointment October of last year. We had to wait a long 3 months before finally seeing the doctor this Wednesday. Now a little back story.
My DH had a cancer scare about 8 years ago, they found a mass on his right testicle and the doctors told him that removing the testicle and mass would be his best bet, it ended up being benign. When he underwent the surgery he had the doctor go ahead and perform the vasectomy at the same time. He has now been on testosterone for 7 years. As far as we know my plumbing is in working order, I haven't had any testing done yet to check to make sure.
Our doctor gave us 3 options: stop the testosterone for 6 months to a year, undergo vasectomy reversal surgery and hope our chances are good enough to conceive on our own; stop the testosterone for 6 months to a year, see a another doctor about extracting the sperm from the remaining testicle, remove eggs from me and undergo IVF treatments and hope this process works; or go with a sperm donor and IUI.
The doctor was very clear with us and gave us the percentages he believed we would have with each treatment and let us decide from there. Even though it is ideal for us to try to conceive the child on our own it just isn't in our cards.
We have decided that the sperm donor treatment will be our best option. We are very ready and very excited/stressed for this new journey. We have lots of research left to do and plan to start our IUI treatments in a few months once we find the perfect donor.
I look forward to sharing our journey here with all of you.

I wish everyone the best of luck in their own journey.