one good testicle could i be infertial

[cashbass68]

I was born with an undescended testicle and it stayed that way till i was fifteen.
At that point it became very inflamed and had to have surgery to reattach. The
testicle did not survive.
The doctor told me that i have a ten percent chance of ever conceiving a child.
Is this true?

[vizslamama]

Well, first I am very sorry for your wife's passing.

As for you girlfriend getting pregnant, I would suggest getting a semen analysis to see what your sperm quality is. Sperm losses its quality every passing year for even the healthiest men. The analysis will give you an idea of what you are dealing with and how plausible it is that the baby is yours. Anything is possible I suppose but if you truly want to know, there is always a DNA test.

How old is your girlfriend?

[cashbass68]

I am now 40 years of age. My other one
seems to be very healthy. The reason I am
so interested now is, I was with my wife for ten
years with a very health unprotected sex life.
She never got pregant. After my wife passed
I got my new girl friend  pregant the first time
we had sex. Did not think I could do that.
Maybe i'm stupid or just nieve.

[vizslamama]

Well, not really sure how to answer since I don't know what the state of your other testicle is in. Did it sustain damage during your surgery? Either way, it seems aggressive to say that you only have a 10% chance. The surest way to know of course is to get a semen analysis test which is a very simple test - you give a sample, and a lab analyzes it for motility, speed, count, concentration and morphology (shape and size). Motility, speed and morphology appear to be the most important factors to assess the fertilizing capability of sperm. Despite a low sperm count, many men with high-quality (viable and highly mobile) sperm may still be fertile. Smoking, drinking, drugs, stress, poor nutrition and lack of exercise all can contribute to poor sperm quality. Harvard did a study that found some evidence that a diet high in soy can decrease sperm quality.

How old are you now?

Infertility treatments have come a long way - for instance there is something called ICSI: intracytoplasmic sperm injection - which is a long, fancy way of saying "inject sperm into the middle of the egg". ICSI is a very effective method to get fertilization of eggs in the IVF lab after they have been retrieved from the female partner. IVF with ICSI involves the use of specialized micromanipulation tools and equipment and inverted microscopes that enable embryologists to select and then pick up individual sperms in a tiny specially designed hollow ICSI needle. Then the needle is carefully advanced through the outer shell of the egg and egg membrane and the sperm is then injected into the inner part (cytoplasm) of the egg. This will usually result in normal fertilization in approximately 70-85% of eggs injected with viable sperm. First, the woman must be stimulated with medications and have an egg retrieval procedure so that we can obtain several eggs in order to attempt in vitro fertilization and ICSI.

Good luck!