What is the problem?

Question

Dh and I have been TTC since June '06, 8 months in and we are still not Pg. I have only had 7 cycles in that time frame, and my husband has had one SA that came back with low sperm concentration 6.1 mil. We both graduated college, got married, moved 2 times, and began our first "real" jobs in the past 10 months. Could the stress of that be the reason we are not pg? or is there something wrong? Can stress cause sperm counts to be that low? He has great motility and morphology! No Dr will talk about infertility until we try for another 6 months! I am so frusterated.

I am 23, and Dh is 22

Answer 1

Any of those things could be causing some problems with his sperm count.

You are both young and you have been trying for less than a year so no one is going to be interested in working with you guys at this point!


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Answer 2

here are some causes for low sperm count


http://www.babyhopes.com/articles/causes-low-sperm-count.html


and some ways to improve the sperm count good luck


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