It is a procedure that is readily available in the states but I don't know about Scotland. This is the website for our doctor who is a pioneer in male infertility. He was actually the first doctor to ever perform a vasectomy reversal. This may give you some information to inquire with doctors on.
"MICROSURGICAL (TESE) TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION FOR AZOOSPERMIC MEN: Abstract of Presentation for Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in September 1999"
I love how doctors act like they know everything. We also asked about sperm banking and were told it wasn't necessary. Storage of sperm in a private bank would have been about $150/year and we paid about $5,000 for the above procedure and had to do IVF 3 times to get pregnant. In total it cost us about $35,000.
Also you will love this - I got a bill today for the storage of the remaining sperm that we have from the above procedure. I'm pregnant now but I'm not comfortable discarding the unused sperm at this time before our son is born. However, as long as he is healthy and everything goes as planned we will not have anymore children. Another hard decision pay the money for storage or risk the chance of something going wrong and wanting to try again.
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Name: Yolanda
Age: 29 DH: 51
Children: 4 year old son
Diagnosis or any known issues:me -MTHFR
DH-0 sperm after surgery in the area (resulted in vasectomy)
IVF#1
ER: 6/13 (7 eggs retrieved - 5 fertilized)
ET: 6/16 (2 embryos transferred 3 frozen)
BETA 6/27/08 
FET#1
(#3 3-day embryos)
Frozen Embryo Transfer: 9/9/08
Beta 9/22/08
IVF#2
ER 2/21 ET 2/24 (12 eggs retrieved - 7 fertilized)
No embryos made it to freeze
POAS positive 8,9,10,11,12 and 13dp3dt
BETA 3/9 (13dp3dt) 355
2nd BETA 3/11 (15dp3dt) 1019
3rd BETA 3/16-spotting (20dpt3dt) 8091
BeanCount 3/20 (one bean w/hb 123)
2nd U/S 3/27 (one bean w/hb 128)
3rd, 4th, and 5th ultrasound all looking good
NT scan results - perfect very low chance of issues
Gender scan - 6/22 It's a boy
Brady Christopher 11-9-09
8 lbs 4 oz 20 inches
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