9 months of Ayurvedic Treament for DH, yet no positive results

On Dr. Sowmya's recommendation, we visited Dr. L. Sucharitha (Pandit Clinic, 5th Main, Chamarajpet, Bangalore) in Dec' 13. Her Consultation Fee was Rs.200. She wrote 4 really expensive medicines for a month's consumption and none of the medicine names were available on Google (neither then, nor now). Those specific medicines were available only in Pandit Clinic; I guess they used code words for all their medicines, not sure if that's ethical. A layman like me couldn't decipher anything from this attached copy of the bill.

Anyway, my DH did consume those Ayurvedic medicines for a month. At month end, the report remained the same. So in Jan'14, Dr. Sucharitha told that she'll tweak the combination of medicines. Here's what she prescribed next :-

With 9 months of Ayurvedic Treatment, DH's sperm production remained nil. We then decided to look for options outside Bangalore.

My next post will tell you about our experience/ conclusion told to us by famous doctors in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Now what... Allopathic or Ayurvedic Treament?

On the day of my Egg Retrieval (ER), DH's semen collection had no sperms. The two vials of semen extracted from his body (via TESE) had no normal sperms either. All the eggs were cryopreserved for the same reason and Embryo Transfer (ET) for that cycle was put on hold. It wasn't a good sign.

We were then asked by his andrologist, Dr. Vasan S.S. to take a break and wait for the sperm generation to start naturally, with the help of a few medicines. We paid an annual fees for the cryopreservation of my eggs.

We repeated the SA test after 3 months break, in May' 13 and the report wasn't good. Here's how it looked :-

We weren't expecting to see this kind of report 3 months post his TESE. We were concerned and scared too. We visited Dr. Vasan at the earliest appointment and he was astonished too. He asked my DH to continue taking those medicines and also try Ayurveda; he claimed that one of his patient with similar case showed some improvement following the Ayurvedic Treatment.

Guess we had no other option, but to do as instructed. The wait was killing...