James Story
I met James who reluctantly came along to an appointment with his wife. I had been treating Melanie his wife, for general well-being as the couple thought that they would start to consciously conceive the following year. I asked Melanie to have James get a semen analysis on our first meeting 3 months prior, James didn’t see the need as he was a fit chap who had many years before fathered a child.The semen analysis revealed that the motility and abnormal forms were so bad that his fertility was in doubt and the couple were referred to an IVF clinic.
Asking James questions about his health and life style revealed that although he was only 31 years old he had been smoking marihuana for 17 years. His habit was a couple of bongs daily and then on weekends he and the boys would get together and have a few more smokes and drinks than usual.
The solution was simple – the marihuana was making the semen dopey, stop smoking dope! It took about 4 months for James to wean himself off marihuana and all credit to him, it was not easy. I prescribed a detoxifying programme, supporting herbs and a nutrition plan which James
followed, he also found time and energy to exercise which Melissa had never known him to be interested in doing. Another semen analysis was done 6 months later and all counts were in a normal range.
Melissa and James became the parents of a beautiful baby boy the following year and a year later they welcomed twin boys, now they were a surprise!
Posted by Wendy Williams on Aug 10 2006 at 4:12 PM