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We have heard from several women and their physicians how Pre-Seed has made post-menopausal intimacy more enjoyable when they have had to stop using hormones due to cancer.   We really appreciate hearing from Pre-Seed and Pre’ users at different places on the circle of life!  I thought someone you know, may benefit this User’s Story.  Blessings ~ Dr. E

Hello, I am a Pre Seed  user because I had breast cancer.  M. D. Anderson would no longer let me use premiran cream for vaginal dryness.  This has been been a great substitute.  I think that this would be a great product for many cancer survivors with the same problem. I have told all my Doctors about it. Perhaps it would be a good way to market your product at all the cancer centers. ~ Sincerely, G. D.

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Enjoy your last week of summer!

Dr. E

The August edition of Conceive Magazine has an informative section on “Fertility Foul Ups” or things that couples may be doing wrong, that can interfere with their chances of conceiving.  Of course, one of the most common being using lubricants that may be killing sperm!  Pre-Seed is nicely mentioned as a “fix” for this problem.

Thank you, Frank, for your dedication and simply amazing story!  I have forwarded this to my friend Toni Weschler (author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility).  Sadly, you are in part right in your statement “There is HUGE, HUGE money in keeping us ignorant of how fertility works”.  But, I have also come to realize many physicians are simply not taught how couples can optimize their own fertility.  This is something that will need to come from people like you and me as we share what we have learned!

Blessings ~
Dr. E

Dear Pre Seed,  I have meant to write this letter for over a year now. So, here is our story…

My wife and I tried to conceive for seven (yes seven!) years and spent over $35,000.00 at a fertility clinic, with no results. A very sad and emotionally draining experience to say the least. We just accepted that we may never be able to conceive our own children so we then decided to adopt a baby girl from China. We went through all of the classes, meetings, paperwork, background checks, and paid out lots more money so we could realize our dream of being parents. We were finally given a “log in date” of December of 2006. We were originally told it should only take 12 to 14 months from that date until we got to pick up our daughter in China. As of today’s date 8/18/09 we have still heard nothing from China and don’t expect to any time soon. There have been delays from China for all adoptions for some reason.

One evening almost two years ago I was watching television and a news anchor mentioned how some people were successfully conceiving using some sort of kit. I went upstairs, logged on to the Internet and began my research. I guess we just assumed that the doctors were giving all the credible methods we could use. I soon came across your wonderful product as well as the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility. I immediately ordered the book and read it in three days (Yes my wife thought I was a bit nuts). I then ordered Pre Seed and we began charting. Honestly, we were happy to have found another method that was very low stress, natural, and relatively inexpensive, but I don’t think we truly believed it would work.

Well, it did work, and it worked after only three months of trying. I will NEVER forget coming home to my wife waiting at the door with a little plastic thing that said “Pregnant”! Nothing had even said this once in seven years, and there it was. She started crying and I did too. Then, because we are both over forty, we decided to not get too excited because we are very aware of the risks. We couldn’t help it though. Something actually said PREGNANT! We were overjoyed. 

The delivery of our son went as close to perfectly as one could hope. It went so quickly there wasn’t enough time left to administer any pain killers for my wife! Yeah, she’s a tough cookie. Our son just turned one year old on July 28th 2009, and he is the joy of our lives. I have told so many people about what worked for us I have even prepared an email I forward all the time. I will include it here at the end of this email.

Thank you so much for your incredible product. My wife and I truly believe it was a combination of Pre Seed, The Book, and being able to relax about the attempts that worked. If you should ever want to contact me or ask any further questions, email me and I would be happy to give you my contact information.

Gratefully yours, ~ Frank, Jane and FG

(Here is that Email I forward by the way)

Hi S,

I am Jane G’s husband (Frank) and she asked me to send you the info on the things we have learned about fertility. I am VERY happy to do this! I know it may be a bit weird to get this info from a male, but I was the one who read the book, did the research, and helped Jane to chart the things that need to be charted. I know more about ovulation and fertility than just about any woman, or doctor, you will ever meet. (If you read this book you will too!). There is HUGE, HUGE money in keeping us ignorant of how fertility works. If we had known about this book in the beginning, we wouldn’t have spent $35,000.00, or gone through the heartache of several failed attempts. Also, there are no shots, weird medications, or the really embarrassing trips the guy has to take to the fertility clinic with his “contributions”.

After seven years of trying, and lots of money at a fertility doctor, we were pregnant after three months. It happened the old fashioned way! I really wish I could go out on the streets and announce this book to everyone out there who wants to have a baby. It really does make me happy to help someone out. I have told so many people, and most of them bought the book. So here goes!

THE book: Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Read some of the reviews on Amazon. This is The Bible of fertility. It can seem a bit daunting but it works! The book was very clear, but it is over 450 pages long! I read it in three days, started charting, and now we have a beautiful 7 month old son.

http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Charge-Your-Fertility-Anniversary/dp/0060881909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236573446&sr=1-1

Basal thermometer. It is still an oral thermometer, it’s just that you need a very sensitive one to track your morning temperature. We bought ours at CVS Pharmacy for about $11.00 as I remember. You must have one of these. This is one of the many from Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/BD-524560-Basal-Digital-Thermometer/dp/B001AM43VY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1236573648&sr=8-1

Personal Lubricant. Here is a fertility friendly personal lubricant. Did you know that most personal lubricants, AND saliva kill sperm cells? They do. This is a lubricant that mimics cervical fluid so it is sperm friendly.

http://www.preseed.com/products.php

So, there you go! I would be more than happy to explain some of this stuff to you over the phone. I really do feel like it is my duty somehow to help others with this. We are so thankful for our son and for the joy he has brought to our lives. If you need anything further, let me know.

Please let me know how things work out.

Good luck, ~ F G

We just got this cute thank you note (below) from a sweety who had written us asking if she should use Pre-Seed, even if she wasn’t one who needed lubricants. I am putting the conversation here below.  As you can see, she was glad for the extra boost, even though she didn’t know she needed it!   

I must say this reminds me of…me!  Prior to inventing Pre-Seed I had never used an intimate moisturizer deposited intravaginally.  I was, and remain, pleasantly surprised how much more fun intimacy can be with moisture coating deep inside the vagina.  And at my ripe old age it has nothing to do anymore with babymaking!  Everyone at some point in their life should try Pre~Seed at least once   And we love hearing from all of you!  ~ Dr. E

Karen in July:  “I have never used a lubricant but have been using Evening Primrose Oil for Fertility (Fairhaven Health).  Both my husband and I noticed that it really works and it is much more moist and comfortable in there around ovulation.  Our question is, should we still use Pre-seed or will that be too much lubrication then?  We wouldn’t want the mucous to be too runny???  Hope this makes sense and you can offer some insight as to whether these products can be combined.

Dr. E in July: Pre-Seed is 100% guaranteed with our “Love it or its free” guarantee, so  you can try it for your own body’s needs knowing there is no risk if you feel the product is too much.  We do know people use Pre-Seed with a variety of other CM stimulant supplements. Pre-Seed has the same viscosity as fertile CM, so it won’t make it “too runny”.  In fact, some women have trouble distinguishing their own CM from Pre-Seed.  Best Wishes ~ Dr. E

Karen in August: Hi Dr E!  I just wanted to send a quick email and say THANKS!  Your Pre Seed product was just what we needed. and I didn’t even know it.  :)  I have seen it on the market forever but never considered myself having a “dryness” problem so never considered buying it.  We have been trying to conceive our 4th child for 9 months (Twins IVF and 1 natural birth) and having sex 3 or 4 days in a row has been getting exhausting and has been using up all my natural lubrication.  I really appreciate having a product like this that I can use.  It was not too slippery at all for us, and my husband was quite happy to have the extra slipperys.  Thanks again, I’ll really thank you if this turns out to be the month!  LOL!  Blessings ~ Karen, Vancouver Island

Occasionally people belittle my having obtained a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine prior to becoming a Sperm Physiologist and doing research on human infertility.  However, I view the chance to have received both of my degrees as a true blessing.  This is in part because of the more wholistic approach veterinarians have to take in medicine, especially in my previous area of food animal medicine.  For the dairy farmer, his cow’s life literally depends on us being able to figure out why she is not conceiving and my treatment was not done until we could get her to calve. 

For many years, veterinarians have known that a form of organism called a mycoplasma causes infertility in many animals, in particular through damaging the Fallopian Tube.  This was one of my areas of research at Cornell (with Dr. Lein of the cattle article). However, human medicine has been very slow to evaluate and treat this very knowable and treatable pathogen.

Look at this interesting article from 1976.  I have highlighted the authors comments 30 YEARS ago about the need for physicians to use medical knowledge from cattle to lead to progress in women’s health and fertility.

Infertility of cattle caused by mycoplasmas.
Tourtellotte ME, Lein DH.

Mycoplasmas have been well established as pathogens of the bovine urogenital tract, and produce pathologic lesions resulting in infertility. Serologic examination of cattle with infertility problems with Mycoplasma bovigenitalium and Mycoplasma agalactiae subsp. bovis show a high incidence of positive reactors suggesting that mycoplasmas play an important role in bovine infertility. The similarities of pathologic lesions in the urogenital tract of cattle and women with infertility problems and the frequency of isolation of mycoplasmas from human females suggest closer examination for mycoplasmas in human infertility. Studies with bulls suggest that mycoplasmas as a cause of human male infertility should not be ignored.

Luckily for all TTCers out there, the role of Mycoplasma in human infertility has begun to be talked about more.  It is likely involved in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and endometriosis.  Most interesting to me was a recent report by Grzesko et al (listed below) which showed that 30% of women with idiopathic infertility (or no known reason for the infertility) had mycoplasma in their cervical canal  while only 4% of fertile women had the organism in their cervix.  This is a HUGE difference between these two groups.  Additionally, for women with genital infections in an ObGyn practice, 43% had mycoplasma present.  Mycoplasma often are “opportunistic” meaning they come in after other acute infections subside.  They are also easily spread between partners. Most importantly, typical treatment protocols for PID do not impact mycoplasmas.  Men, mycoplasma does impact you too, and 50% of partners are cross infected….so you both should get checked and treated if applicable.

The take home message: If you are having trouble conceiving or if you have had chronic intermittent genital irritation or infection, ask your doctor for a mycoplasma genitalium test.   It isn’t a routine test and you may have to work to get it run or have to pay for it out of pocket.  But all the Clomid in the world won’t overcome infertility due to a low grade chronic infection, and getting the proper diagnosis and treatment is something you may have to discuss, educate and push for with your physician.

I am disappointed that we direct so much of our infertility treatment and discussion towards assisted reproduction technologies, without first making sure that a couple is as healthy as can be for nature to take its own course!  I have listed several articles below that are good for information on this topic!

Blessings- Dr.E

• Treatment strategies for pelvic inflammatory disease.
  Sweet RL.
  Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2009 Apr;10(5):823-37.
• Correlation of mycoplasma with unexplained infertility.
  Gupta A, Gupta A, Gupta S, Mittal A, Chandra P, Gill AK.
  Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2009 Mar 26.
• Occurrence of Mycoplasma genitalium in fertile and infertile women.
  Grześko J, Elias M, Maczyńska B, Kasprzykowska U, Tłaczała M, Goluda M.
  Fertil Steril. 2009 Jun;91(6):2376-80.

Recent studies in several medical journals have underlined the damaging effects of marijuana on male reproduction. Smoking marijuana can lead to reduced sperm counts and male infertility. This is because sperm have a receptor that actually binds with the marijuana’s chemical, THC and this then impacts the sperm motility (swimming), and acrosome reaction (changes that allow sperm to bind to the egg).  More and more medical research shows a deleterious impact of marijuana on basic sperm cell physiology.  For example, a study in last month’s Fertility & Sterility (Badawy et al., June 2009) showed that the THC in marijuana inhibited oxygen use by the sperm’s mitochondria, blocking the sperm cell’s respiration.  The mitochondria are critical for sperm swimming and motility. The mechanisms of marijuana toxicity on sperm and male fertility are becoming better understood, adding to the bottom line that POT is BAD for sperm and should not be part of your TTC journey.  In fact, if you have been a heavy smoker and are planning on TTC, I would strongly recommend you have a sperm analysis, including a sperm chromatin assay (read my FAQ on this); and start taking a fertility supplement like FertilAid.  You should also quit smoking at least 90 days before you start having unprotected intercourse, to let the sperm cycle replenish itself.   

Take Care-
Dr. E

I will have to go back and look at all of our wonderful User’s Stories, but seven years of trying and now pregnant may be a record :)  Keep the babydust and blessings flowing to PT and family! ~ Dr.E

My husband and I had been trying to conceive our second child for seven years.  I even tried clomid with no success.  In April, 2009 we started using Preseed.   We used a full tube each time.  The first month was a no go.  May, 2009 we again used Preseed.  On May 30th I took a pregnancy test and it was positive.  I couldn’t believe it.  We had been trying for seven years and even used fertility drugs and two months of Preseed was all it took.  I am currently 13 weeks pregnant and everything seems to be going fine.  Good luck to everyone!!!  ~ PT