"After six years of trying for a baby and two failed rounds of IVF, Toby Trice found himself at his lowest ebb, feeling lost, lonely and alienated from society. We were in this dark phase of not knowing where we were at. All our friends and family around us had children and we were constantly reminded we couldn't. It was soul-destroying."
"If a GP had tested Trice for the varicocele he was eventually diagnosed with, he might never have gone through such a painful process. A varicocele is a dilated vein in the scrotum that increases testicular temperatures and damages sperm. By some estimates it is present in 40% of cases of male infertility, yet it can be treated with routine surgery."
"The basic thing was that I had some sperm, so all the focus and attention was on trying to find the problem with my wife, Katy, he recalls. The clinic said we just need to keep trying through IVF and eventually we would have a baby. Instead, it took a contact in a support group mentioning the possibility of male infertility and a visit to a private specialist clinic for Trice to get diagnosed and treated."
Toby Trice experienced six years of infertility and two failed IVF cycles, leaving him feeling lost, lonely and alienated. After the second failed IVF he had suicidal thoughts. A later diagnosis found a varicocele, a dilated scrotal vein that raises testicular temperature and damages sperm. Varicoceles are estimated to be present in about 40% of male infertility cases and can be treated with routine surgery. Initial clinical focus was on the wife because Trice had some sperm. A support-group contact and a private specialist clinic led to diagnosis and surgery, after which a natural pregnancy occurred two weeks later. Leading experts say there is widespread lack of awareness of male infertility.
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