Our lovely RE called me yesterday while at work and told me that he has gotten our genetic testing results. I was excited and scared all at the same time. Would it be good or bad news? Then the RE asked if we would like to make an appointment to come in and discuss the results or if I was okay with getting them over the phone. Are you kidding me? To know that you have the results on a Saturday where I have just basically started my 13 hour day, and not be able to hear them until I drive to fort Worth? Of course I want to hear over the phone. 🙂
So the results are in:
No Y-microdeletion – Genes have the manual on how to make sperm. Score!!
Karyotype issue – We have Klinefelter’s Syndrome.
Basically that means that most guys are a 46-xy. D happens to be a 47-xxy. Darn those pesky additions that shouldn’t be there :p. So it mainly comes down to he has the ability to produce, but it’s not enough to send them swimming out.
Ok – next step?
RE called a urologist in Frisco (that’s in Texas and not the San fran type), and gave him the run down of the test results thus far and asked what the chance of finding any pockets of sperm in a biopsy. Without examination, urologist replied that there is a 10-30% chance of finding some swimmers. So basically, we have to go ahead and make an appointment with the urologist, go in for an examination and then get a more definitive percentage.
This means that we will have to go through with IVF, so we still have to come up with that, but at least there’s a chance of finding those pesky little swimmers.We have been told by our RE that if we decide to do IVF, we should have donor sperm on back-up just in case when the time comes, if D’s gets shy and doesn’t show up in the biopsy, then we won’t have wasted the full cycle and all that money.