Been there buddy......children were a big want in my life but never found the right woman to settle down with. I've been BB since my mid 20's and been in and around the industry as well. When I did finally settle down I was 38 and we wanted kids. Went to my doc who I tell everything to and what I am on, who also prescribes me some of my gear. T3, Lasix, Test, etc...and did a sperm analayst which came back at zero. So he sent me to an endo doc who did more blood work and put me on fertility meds and told me I had to basicly stop BB, so I did. Test after test still no sperm production, I was on clomid, hcg and FSH shots weekly. He said I might not get it back at all after all the years of using AS and that I might have to be on HRT rest of my life to just maintain some what normal function. A few years past and still nothing and I am getting older, like old man status. My wife is 9 years younger so no issues there but we started going to a fertility specialist to harvest her eggs and freeze them. At this point my options where addoption which I am good with since I was myself or sperm donor. We wanted the experience of pregnacy so we went the donor route, going through 100's of canidates to find someone who looked like me, built like me (when I was younger) and had the same interest. We found a few and had the sperm sent to our doc to inplant my wife. We did this three seperate times with no luck. Now at this time I was 42, four years of trying but never giving up on the fertilty drugs, still taking them as we explored other avenues. Then one day my wife showed up to work, tears in her eyes and said she got a phone call that my sperm count was 19 million and that we are ready to unfreeze her eggs and and inplant the sperm. Sounded great and was a huge relief....but after 6 rounds of Invetro none of the eggs fertilzed and I can tell you its a very emotional rollercoaster to have your wife go into the hospital, get inplanted with our eggs and wait 5 days on the couch not allow to work only to hear sorry it didnt work.......well long story short (sorry guys) down to our last round off two fertilized eggs we were pregnet with twins.......we lost one of the twins at 16 weeks but the other one thrived and was born a healthy, thick big boy.....so I guess my message is if you want kids down the road just educate yourself on the proper ways to come off, time off and getting checked for sperm count now and again, who cares if itf cost a lot its all worth it. I think a sperm test is like $150 so what thats two bottles of gear....I have a few friends who are pro's and ex pro's and the guys had their sperm kept at the doc office on ice so that it wouldnt interfere with their BB career. I also know of few ex pro's very well who went through the same shit I did....Bpak has two little babies today, I think they're one and three and I am sure his sperm was frozen..I know Big JIm Quinn went through years and years of fertility drugs and finally had a baby boy.....and Ronnie Coleman just had a baby girl.....so just becareful, BB is a great sport but nothing can replace having children of your own and living life through their eyes....I know some of you like I was are saying, fuck that I dont want kids I wanna be big as possible....I was there....but one day its going to happen and you're going to want them and if you dont educate or take care of yourself you're really missing out on a true blessing from God and a journey like you've never experienced......
