[einstein]

My husband has antisperm antibodies. His sperm don't swim, in fact, they barely move at all. We've known this for four years.

I'm curious to know what else we could try for success besides moving right to IVF again. Does anyone know of a treatment for my hubby that might help? Or is there a holistic option we might try?

[Bumbles]

Hi, I'm new, joined today because I've been looking for forums where "anti-sperm antibodies" was known about.

I'd really like to know the answer to your question as well. Does anyone have a success story of their partner having anti-sperm anti bodies, going on to conceive a child of their own?

Bumbles, xx

[scottawan]

After 2 years of unexplained infertility and much diagnostic testing my wife and I found out through a third semenalysis that I have male anti-sperm antibodies with severe agglutination. Probably due to a childhood infection that caused swelling in my testicles.

Exactly four weeks ago my wife gave birth to our first child a healthy baby boy. So I want everyone with this condition to know that there is hope!

We had sperm washing with IUI and my wife was on fertility drugs (clomid). We were successful in our second try.

I also took 1000mg of Vitamin C daily As I had read in a number of places on the internet that this helped (and I wasn't afraid that it would do any harm.)

Scott - Father to William (IUI Success story)

[BruceK]

I have male antisperm antibodies and have two daughters. The oldest one is not my biological daughter, but a permanent foster daughter. The youngest was concieved through a micro injection IVF process. I would be interested in finding a source of treatment other than IVF, if anyone knows of any?

[Lisa]

Thank you for your post. This is encouraging news indeed - congrats on your bay-beeee!

My husband had a vasectomy reversal and he now has 0% motility. We see the urologist in mid-March (it was the first appt we could get!) at which time we wonder if he will say there are antibodies too. We knew this was a risk with the reversal.

~Lisa in WI

[Rebecca]

I have just joined and read your post-I hope you still check in here as I'm very interested in your success with IUI. My husband has antisperm antibodies which we discovered in November 2006. We were told that our only option was ICSI and were extremely fortunate to have it work first time. Our daughter was born October 30th 2007. We would love another child but I hate the thought of the ICSI again and therefore would like to hear success stories by other means. My husband has 95% antisperm antibodies-is this much higher than yours? Perhaps my husbands condition is too severe for anything but ICSI. Would love some info/advice from anyone that can help

[FayeO]

Hi Rebecca and others,
You might not be checking this thread anymore b/c it seems no one has posted here in a while.
I am curious to see what successes folks have had while dealing with male antisperm antibodies.

We have had 7 failed IUIs! Yikes! Sounds awful I know. We had three very low tech with my OB and have since had 4 at the RE.

Don't know how I feel about that. Perhaps would have been more realistic to tell us, up front, that IVF was the only "real" strategy.

My husband has two antibodies. One (95% of sperm are affected) is attached to the tails and the other (85% of sperm) are attached to the heads.
Rendering the penetration of an egg almost impossible.

Any thoughts?
thank you

[MP&KP]

I see it has been a long time since anyone responded to this post but I just joined so I thought I'd share my story.
My husband has 100% coverage anti-sperm antibodies. We did IVF/ICSI after getting this diagnosis. The first IVF/ICSI ended in a tubal, the second with healthy twin boys. Our boys are now 18 months old and we are planning on a FET in July. Since our boys turned a year old my husband has been on a health kick. He has lost weight, started eating healthy foods and exercising. I was wondering if this change in his lifestyle would affect his sperm or if the anti-sperm antibodies is a permanent condition unchanged by lifestyle? If anybody knows please let me know.
Thank you.