infertility

[Jaz650]

I'm twenty three years old, and I have been on hormones for nine, maybe ten years (I began hormones at fourteen). My question is how do I know if I am infertile?? Maybe that's not the right word.. How do I know if I can't make biological babies anymore??

[Leila]

Simple answer is a sperm analysis carried out once you provide a sample.

[Jaz650]

Simple answer is a sperm analysis carried out once you provide a sample.

is there anyway we can find out on our own?

[Leila]

If there was I wouldn't have bothered hassling my GP as to why.

[kelly_aus]

is there anyway we can find out on our own?

Got a microscope? Semen on a slide under the scope will give you a basic indication..

However, if you started hormones at ~14, there's a possibility that your testes never fully developed..

[KayXo]

Being on hormones for almost 10 yrs, it would be highly unlikely that you were still fertile unless you didn't take any anti-androgens (excluding flutamide/bicalutamide) and always were on a low dose of bio-identical estrogen BUT even then...highly unlikely.

[ImagineKate]

To truly find out you'll need to stop the hormones for a few months. Then you go to an andrologist and give a sample. However given your age and the fact that you started that early I strongly suspect you're past the point of no return now. Sorry hon

I had to do this (except I wasn't on HRT) for evaluation at a fertility clinic and they basically said no ejaculation was allowed for 3 days minimum prior to giving the sample.

[Wynternight]

I suspect I was infertile before hormones due to being Intersex but now, close to four months on HRT I don't ejaculate at all so I think it's pretty much assured. Not that I had any concerns before given I've been basically asexual almost all my life.

[Mariah]

The doctor's always suspected that I was and based on lack of sex drive all those years and the fairly low Free testosterone I suspect they were right.

I suspect I was infertile before hormones due to being Intersex but now, close to four months on HRT I don't ejaculate at all so I think it's pretty much assured. Not that I had any concerns before given I've been basically asexual almost all my life.

[mm]

Jaz650, Can you produce an ejaculation now, amount, color?  This is a start for if you don't produce an ejaculation no sperm.  Have your testis decreased in size since you stated HRT at 14?