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It is always fun when we hear from families with multiple Pre~Seed children, which we refer to as “Seedlings”     I believe our record is 3 Seedlings (in one family) and we also had 3 Seedlings from one 6 pack (across three families).  Fun!  Anyway, you will enjoy Emily’s journey.

Take Care ~ Dr. E

Hello, I just wanted to write in and tell you my story. I’ve been meaning to do it for 2 years now, but was busy being pregnant and raising a now 14 month old boy! When we started thinking about trying to conceive I wanted to be as informed as possible. I read Toni W.’s book, “Taking charge of your fertility” and started to chart my cycles after going off birth control. After charting a few cycles I realized I have a short luteal phase, which can lead to miscarriages if not treated either before pregnancy with clomid or after becoming pregnant with progesterone pills. My Dr. put me on Clomid and while researching the side effects I discovered dryness as one of them. Not good if TTC! I knew we couldn’t use regular lubricants and even tried an eggwhite one month (as Toni suggested in her book)!

After being unsuccessful, I started “googling” and came across Pre-seed. I ordered it right away and we used 4 tubes our first month TTC and came up with a BFP 2 weeks later! My sister was also TTC so I gave her our remaining 2 tubes and she had a baby girl 2 weeks after my boy was born! I really didn’t expect such immediate success, especially because I’d been diagnosed with endometriosis before getting married. But I am happy to write in as one of your many thrilled customers for whom preseed worked the first month!

Fast forward 2 years…..my husband and I decided to start TTC again this month (Sep). I really wanted to get pregnant this month because I didn’t want to have another late summer baby….well, it worked again–the first month! I am due June 1st and we are so happy! Needless to say I am hooked and have told many of my friends about your wonderful product. The $17.00 was totally worth it! Thank you so much preseed for taking the stress out of TTC and making it fun!  ~ Emily–a loyal customer

A recent study presented at the Reproductive Medicine meeting this year (Tanrikut et al., 2008), suggested that an SSRI antidepressant significantly increased sperm DNA damage  to levels that have been well associated with poorer reproductive outcomes (over 30% damaged sperm).  This study mirrored the results from a 2005 study that my group presented. In our study, men who smoked saw a dramatic increase in the percent of sperm with damaged DNA, while taking SSRIs. 

It is my opinion that the potential impact of SSRIs on men who are trying to conceive, is a hugely under-discussed issue.  Approximately 4-6 million men of reproductive age in the US are on SSRIs.  These medications can cause 1/3 – 1/2 of men to have sexual dysfunction including erectile dysfunction and delayed ejaculation, which can also interfere with TTC.

The cause of this is most likely disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis.  These medications can elevate prolactin, which due to a cascade, suppresses testosterone production in the testicles and disrupts sperm production.  Although, the sperm damage may also be caused by increased levels of oxidative stress on the sperm from the SSRIs.

There are other types of antidepressants that can be discussed with your physician if you are trying to conceive.  Another option would be to have a sperm chromatin test done if you are taking SSRIs and TTC. This way, you can find out if your sperm’s DNA has been impacted.  Please read my FAQ about
sperm chromatin testing to better understand what this involves.

Take care-
Dr. E

We get so many heart-warming stories from all of you, but occasionally someone writes us with a truly amazing TTC journey, such as this…dr.e…

OMG Thanks!  I never write into companies, but this experience is too good to be true. For over six years, we had tried to conceive and we had seen specialist after specialist. We were told my husband has 99% bad sperm and low counts and I have PCOS, so it was very unlikely that we would ever get pregnant together without IVF. The first and only time we used your PreSeed product, much to our surprise we conceived. That was the only change that month. I’m telling all my fertility challenged friends about the magic goop that worked. Thanks again. We’re now 4 months pregnant and are hoping for a healthy baby. Kind regards, ~ K

I am headed to Toronto to do the Discovery Channel special on “the life of sperm as we know it”.  I was reviewing some of my FAQs I used to get when we did the Q&A (for any who remember the old days!).  I miss doing the Q&A, although of course I was getting so many questions a day I couldn’t keep up.  But I would like to have the chance to answer some of your questions on TTC, vaginal dryness or just keeping your sex life fun thru all the stages of life. 

Please email us at info@preseed.com and I will be answering the first 10 questions I get over the next week or so.

Thanks and take care-

Dr. E    

We just got this great message from a new PCOS support blog. Check it out and give Pam our support! Three Seedling kids J that may be a record!

Good afternoon, I have used PreSeed for my past 3 children/conceptions, I swear by it and tell everyone I know about it because of its amazing results for me (I wish I would’ve known about it sooner!!!). I have recently started a blog on PCOS (I was diagnosed over 7 years ago). My plan is to provide loads of information (that is often withheld or ignored) for those who: have recently been diagnosed, think they may have it, and have PCOS. I have been on various forums and mentioned PreSeed a lot through my posts. Although a good number of women have heard of it, or are using it, the majority I spoke to had no idea what it was and were excited to know there was such a product. I only recently came upon it from a web search. I really want to share the product with my visitors because its helped me SO much, and I believe they’d be interested as well since most PCOS’ers take Clomid to increase fertility, and we all know what Clomid does to your cervical mucus and environment !!…My plan is to write a post about hostile CM and include information about PreSeed as a helpful suggestion to combat the problem! Sincerely, pcosinfo.com