Series 3, Episode 1 with Sean Farrell
Hello and welcome back to another episode of The Male Fertility Podcast! We are so delighted to be sharing this series with you as this one is all about giving a voice to the audience.
And to kick start the series off, Shaun and Ciaran are joined by Sean Farrell, who has been listening to the podcast since he started on his fertility quest. And crucially, he is still going through it at the moment.
This episode they talk about what life was like pre fertility struggle, and how he started down the road of trying to conceive. Together, they chat about his experience with the NHS and the lack of information that was there for them, both for a man and a woman.
Sean talks about how he received his test results of a sperm analysis over the phone by an out of hours doctor, and that they gave him the wrong information. They then discuss how after they got the hard copy of the results, Sean and his partner realised that they had been hugely mis-informed about the information.
After doing another sperm analysis, they found the same results, there was no sperm.
The couple decided to go down the private route, and Sean talks about having to prioritise his fertility over lots of other things in life due to the financial costs involved.
He discusses the ways in which his relationship with his wife has changed since the diagnosis.
Sadly, the couple were to find that there was another hurdle to overcome in relation to their fertility when they discovered that his partner’s uterus wasn't properly formed and that it was only half developed. His explains that they are now very much in limbo.
Sean’s advice is to, if you can, exercise, distract yourself from the real world, keep connected with your partner and try to own and accept your diagnosis so that you can come to terms with it and move forward.
Thank you Sean!
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