sperm testing?

[luckymama]

hey ladies, just wondering if anyone has had their DH/DF swimmers tested before? Do you just get a pathology request from the dr, and then go away and get a sample and go back to the dr or do they send you somewhere else for testing?

[onelasttime]

my DH got his sperm tested. He went to the drs and got a referral to pathology.
He then did what he had to do in the cup and take to pathology. Then you go back to your dr. to get the result. - very easy, just like getting a blood test, and all paid through medicare.

but make sure you call your local pathology, cause they need to take sperm to your local hosp to get tested and they need the sperm really fresh, so find out what time is their pickup and he needs to do it just before then.
If you get my drift.

[luckymama]

will do thanks :thumbsup: i got him an app for tommorow morning with the dr, also is it true that its said you shouldnt have sex a few days before the testing so the swimmers can build up for testing?

[chicken]

Yes, that's true Doula. My DH got tested, and he was told to abstain for 2-3 before the test.

[Puk]

Yes, that's true! You shouldn't have sex three to seven days before the test. They give you a card with all the details when you get the sample jar. It tells you everythig you can and can't do! :thumbsup:

[maverick]

When I had to do this I found it to be the most embarrassing experience I have had to go through. Made even worse when I presented the jar to the pathology lab and it was an 18 year old girl who proceeded to ask, quite loudly in front of everyone in the waiting room, "Have you only just done this?( I nodded yes). Now how did you collect this, did you have help or did you just use your hand?" :o Gees if I could have shrunk to the size of an ant and scurried away i would have. Everyones eyes in the waiting room were transfixed on me as I walked out.

[luckymama]

cool thanks everyone :thumbsup:
although DF thinks its "yukky" :laughing: that he has to give a sample ;) poor guy lol
Was everyone elses DH/DF like that about it too?

[luckymama]

OMG thats awful :o i feel so embaressed for you, silly girl at pathology with no tact what so ever :no:

[chicken]

Yeh, my DH was embarassed when questioned by the receptionist about how long ago the 'sample' was taken!!! But come on, it has to be better than having to perform on their premises with a bunch of magazines. And I mean, its nothing like the sorts of poking and prodding that us ladies have to go through.

[emma2938]

i know my hubby is really keen to go and get it done :-) he's confident that his swimmers will stand up to the test!. :laughing: lol And plus he is the army so they just do it for him at the army hospital I think. He asked after the first cycle of TTC should he go and do it?? lol I said no, but now after 3 cycles, maybe I'll send him along just to make sure.

[maverick]

But come on, it has to be better than having to perform on their premises with a bunch of magazines.

I have had to do it that way as well. When we went to see our fertility specialist in Adelaide he made me go do it at the Flinders Medical Centre.

[chicken]

I have had to do it that way as well. When we went to see our fertility specialist in Adelaide he made me go do it at the Flinders Medical Centre.


And that would have been heaps more embarassing, right?

[sunflower]

My Dh has had to do it a couple of times with pathology and in the little room with magazines and it hasn't worried him at all, I think I have been more embarrassed for him than he has been!

[maverick]

And that would have been heaps more embarassing, right?

No actually, it was an all male place and no waiting room discussions.

[Bolli]

I think it is hard for the fellas, a lot of them feel their man hood is being brought in to question.

A friend who had been TTC for 12 months, did the sample at home and he drove them together to drop it off. He was rather grumpy about the whole thing, probably for the reasons above. When they got there, they had an argument when they couldn't find a park (as couples in cars together under a bit of stress tend to do - lol!) so she ran in to drop it off while he drove around the block.

When she got in there she was told they could not accept it unless the 'donor' dropped it off in person. Another little fight, frantic car parking and the sample was finanlly safely in the hands of the clinic. The funny part came that weekend at a BBQ, when she mentioned the story (to her DH's horror) to all the fellas around the table. Luckily, and unusually for a bunch of aussie blocks, they all steped up to the plate and made light of the moment, and made him feel a lot better about it. All the guys said when their turn comes (they were the first couple in the group TTC) no one but them would be handling their little 'swimmers' like they were already paternal towards them. It became quite a light animated discussion that far from embarrasing the DH in question, made him feel a lot better.

While I wouldn't advocate breaking your DHs privacy :no: , in this case it was kind of good - it made a normally taboo subject for men, a perfectly manly converstation.

[Little_Toad]

My friend (male) just had to go do the spermy sample thing and he was raving about how great it was, relly hot nurses, beer in the fridge of the little cubicle, comfy leather chair. He's keen to go back.

I'm going to take my dp's sample in for him , so he can do it at home.

[SuperWoman]

My DH had to do it 4 times through our IVF treatment. I felt so sorry for him, he was so embarressed. He tried to act tough about it but I know him better than that!!