Hi all,
Just wondering if anybody has had trouble conceiving with AS? My husband has AS and we've been trying for a few yrs. to have a baby. thanks for any input.


Kim

I've lost 3 babies. never had a problem CONCEIVING, just making it to term. =(

-Bridge

Hi there...
I've had AS for quite some time. I had my first at 26 then 6 1/2 yrs later my 2nd after 3 miscarriages . Then I went on to have one more son. So I have 3 now. Have both of you all gone for full checkups? There's plenty of folks here with AS and family. Best of luck and good wishes !! Buggy

oh, and my brother has AS, and he's got 6 kids (biologically - he has 2 adopted as well)

Hi Kim,

There have been many ladies here with AS who have had children after being diagnosed. If your husband is the one with AS there is no reason related to AS I know of that would cause infertility. My wife had two kids after my back surgeries and AS diagnosis. In fact after the surgeries my docotrs told me to make love as often as I could handle it to help build the muscles in my low back. My wife of course told me I was crazy so she went to my following up visit with me and I asked the doctor to tell her what he told me. So when he told his orders upon my release from the hospital was not to hold my urine and go to the bathroom often, Then he told her one of the other orders was to have as much sex as possible. She told him he was crazy too, but after that it did not take much convincing. A few years after the daughter and son was born I went and had the big V, but even with that I still try to follow the same doctors orders because it helps keep my hips and lower back limber.

It could be just your timing is off. I have had friends who got married and had a baby or was pregnant by the end of the first year. I have had other friends who have tried for as many as five years before conceiving. If you do not have any luck soon I would talk with a doctor and see what he/she might have to say.

Brent

Great suspicion is that from the male part AS affected the ability for me. My wife tried for a while to get pregnant. No luck. Tests showed I was the problem.

Not a lot of evidence of what the cause was but the morphology (shape)of my swmimers was not good. I had taken LOTS of NSAID's as a very young adolescent because my AS was severe as a young teen. Doc thought this a likely culprit.

Didn't matter what the cause was the result was a wife willing to go through IVF and three spectacular little girls born about six years ago.

Best wishes to you. Keep trying and use whatever good medicine has to offer.

Thanks for the input everybody!

Steve,
I have wondered about this. We are having some tests ran to see maybe what's going on, it could be me though, I just wanted to run this question by y'all and see.......
Congrats on your babies, they are precious!!!

Kim

Brent,
That is pretty funny. I'll pass that info along to Brandon, when he says his hips are thrown out of place! lol...:)

Well it was not so funny at the time because for once I was going to follow the doctor's orders to the tee and hit a brick wall until after she talked to the doctor herself, she gave in a bit but not to the extend of as much as possible.

But on the serious side I have had three or four neurosurgeons and neurologist tell me to have as much sex as I could to help build the muscle strenght up and keep you flexible. I'm not one to say no or I have a headache. It keeps you more flexible and decreases the pain some also. I guess it stretches the tendons and muscles instead of them tightening up causing more pain.

Brent

Steve it sounds like you got stuck in a bad spot, You are the first person I have heard the AS or meds could have caused that. I know some meds cause ED but nothing like you described. Either way you have three little angles floating around with their dad wrapped around their fingers. I'm sure you two have them spoiled to no ends. You may need to build an addition onto the house or a building outside when they are all going through the teen years. I told my kids I was going to build me a room outside with one window and one door with locks on both when they started those teen years.

Brent

Bridge,
I'm so sorry of your losses.......maybe your future holds a precious baby.

I've had several miscarriages, but in the end finally ended up with a little boy. Like Bridge, I never had the problem of getting pregnant, I just couldn't keep them to save my life. They hadn't run any tests on me yet because "i didn't have enough miscarriages to show alarm". So I don't know if the miscarriages were a result of AS or my body just completely rejecting the pregnancies. And needless to say I do everything in my power to avoid that Dr at the OB practice I go to.

Just wanted to say my father has had AS all his life fused solid all so has ten children 5 girls 5 boys.
Bradford

Sarah -
I'm just curious how many miscarriages your doctor thinks it takes to "show alarm?" sheesh. Personally, I think 3 is plenty . . . but my poor mom went through 8!
Bridge

Don't get me started on that Dr, but since you did!

Here's the condensed version:
He discounted one of my miscarriages because I hadn't made it to the Dr's office for confirmation before miscarrying. So right there, as far as he was concerned, they didn't happen. When I got stuck with him, I was at my third pregnancy (twins). When it started looking like it wasn't going to work out, I started discussing options with him, like a D&C. He said just let it happen naturally, he wasn't doing the D&C. I should have known then things were going to go downhill. When I got the phone call with blood results from another Dr that indeed it resulted in a miscarriage, that Dr asked me what I wanted to do, so I told him a D&C, he said that was perfectly acceptable and he would contact the other Dr to do it. I told him about our conversation and he said the other Dr will do it, no questions asked. Well he did and to this day I swear up and down he did something wrong! So when I had to go back for the follow up after the D&C, I told him my mom had problems, took her 8 years and she had to have fertility help. Is this something that's passed down. His response "fertility drugs didn't help your mother, it was her time to get pregnant. And this is something that is NOT passed down to you, this is normal, you'll have it when it's time". I asked him if something could be wrong and that's why I was miscarrying and the response "There's nothing wrong with you, this is normal, you will have a baby when you're supposed to". At that point I basically got up and walked out. It must have been in my file that I walked out of a Dr's appt with him because at my follow up visit after I had Ben, that Dr asked me what happened between myself and the other Dr, he saw there was a request in my file not to see him unless I had to. So, given that I had grown to really like this new Dr, I gave him a brief overview, and just said it was a difference of opinion. New Dr said I wasn't the only one with that issue.
Ok, then why does he still work there if other patients are having the same problem?????!!!!!!!!
Wow and that was the condensed version!

Sarah,
Wow what a jerk!!! I'm sorry you had to deal with somebody like that going through what you were going through....some people

Yeah, he was/is a real butt!

My husband and I were taking bets that I would go into labor when the bad Dr was on call for delivery. Luckily that didn't happen!