IVF after vasectomy? experiences?

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We have decided we want another baby. Our goal is before my oldest turns 10.  He's 9 in April.

Anyone have experience with this?

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Thank you Brittany :)
I am so anxious but I stay positive about my husband TESE, but I am nervous! lol
I really hope the doctors find good sperms in my husband when they do TESE.

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We are not dealing with this exactly, but we are doing TESE to combat high DNA fragmentation.

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Yes, 12 weeks pregnant and hubby had vasectomy 20 years ago! His TESE procedure went great and then we did IVF with ICSI.

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I thought I might update here, in case someone in the same situation as me and comes here in the future to find out some information.
So I previously posted some background stories.
My husband went through his TESE after PESA with no sperm found. The TESE was successful! yay!
Then I was on the medicaion for egg retrieval. I had oocytes retriecal and had 9 mature eggs removed. All of them made it through day 5. I had 1 embryo transfer now I am 5 weeks pregnant. It is just the beginning but I am very excited and happy!

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Wish I could say we had some positive news, but my husband had a reversal back in may and when we went to have an IUI done this march we were told he barely has a sperm count. Basically the reversal didn't work. I'm heartbroken. Hoping for a miracle.

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Carla, I am feeling the same way you are. I am trying to stay positive, but it is sometimes hard. I can't stop thinking what if he was not producing healthy sperm enough to use for IVF. Then I pray that he is producing good sperm.  
I will update how TESE goes. I am hopeful! ( at least trying to be hopeful :p)

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I'm following this thread. We also decided we wanted another baby. We did a reversal, but it didn't take, so now we're thinking about going through IVF, pending there's actually viable sperm available. I'm so nervous if we decide to go this route, that we'll be disappointed again and he won't have any good sperm. This whole situation is emotionally draining :(. Best of luck to you Jen.

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Awww soooo sweet of you Brittany!  We need a lot of baby dust!

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The post is from a while ago, but I hope someone still reads and shares some expericenes. My husband 45 has a kid from his previous marriage, and he had his vasectomy 20 years ago. I am 35 and do not have kids. We have decided to have our own kid so we are going through IVF with ICSI.

Since he had his vasectomy, in order to get healthy sperms from him, he just had PESA. Unfortunately the doctors did not find live sperms, and they need to do TESE instead.

Is there any chance that the doctors find sperms doing the procedure, TESE? Did anyone have the same situation, no sperms were found PESA, but TESE enabled to retrieve sperms?

Some say the quality of sperms get bad after vasectomy so long time. Is it true?

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Yes! We did it and got pregnant first try! Currently 8 weeks pregnant. I have a son that is 9 and my step children are in their teens and grown adults