[Crunchie]

Hi everyone my first post here is not a happy one.

My lad was diagnosed with testicular cancer back in January and had the affected testicle removed at the end of that month. We were told this shouldn't affect his sperm production and he'd be fine with the remaining testicle.

Unfortunately the surgery didn't come quick enough to stope the spread of the cancer and 5 months later he was told it had returned in a lymph node in his chest.

He was recommended to have a short course of chemotherapy and as the cancer was caught early this is expected to cure it. However as I'm sure most of you are aware chemo can affect fertility so he was recommended to store sperm.

He went to give a sample last week which turned out zilch. Another one this week has given the same result. We know he was not always this way as he has gotten two seperate ex girlfriends pregnant.

As far as we were aware testicular cancer doesn't really affect the other testicle so we're very confused as to what has gone on. He has been reading material from the web which details the possibility of a blockage? However there is now no time to investigate this before his chemo starts which from what I understand is likely to make the situation worse. His course will be a short one (over three months) and he is still relatively young (30). we are not thinking of having a family any time soon but as you can imagine we're both devastated that the option may not be there.

Before he had his surgery I asked his doctor about having sperm stored but was told he'd only get that if he was having further treatment and they didnt expect the surgery to affect him that way.

I guess what I really want to know is is there any hope? And if the worse comes to the worse what are our options?

thank you