TTC Girl while DH on steroid cycle?

[JP2007]

First of all, I am definitely not condoning illegal things like steroids or drugs! I am just curious about the effects on TTC. I am pregnant with my second boy but we want to have our third child close in age and I am starting to think about a girl sway in a year or so. DH has never done steroids but has been wanting to do a cycle for some time now. He was planning on doing it sometime after our son is born, and as I was googling it I came across some interesting information. The issue I was looking is up is whether or not it is possible to conceive while husband is taking steroids, and is it safe. I read that yes it is possible although sperm count can be lower, and yes it is completely safe as steroids do not affect DNA or chromosomes or anything else that can cause defects or problems. This was good news for sure. As an added bonus, I read that 8 out of 10 babies conceived during a steroid cycle are girls! Not sure how accurate that is, but the forum I was reading on had many user comments that they in fact conceived only girls while doing steroids. I am assuming it is because of the low testosterone/ sperm count? After reading that I was thinking about planning my sway around his cycle. I was planning on doing the LE diet along with supplements and Rephresh or something else to lower PH. I would have a short window of time during cycle to get pregnant (8 weeks maybe) so I would need to plan on getting pregnant quickly. Does anyone have experience with TTC during steriod cycle or swaying pink while husband is on steroids? Thanks!

[crazyladyneedsababy]

ok Im on steroids daily (oral prednisolone) anyway I have have 2 boys

[atomic sagebrush]

I would love a link to this if you can post one. This is something that I have believed for a really long time but it was based on my own observations and those of some people who I trust, but if there is an actual study to back it up I would love to have access to it.

I do think steroids when taken by DH can sway pink because of cruddy sperm quality. I am not so sure it's perfectly safe, I don't think anyone can really say things like that because we really have very little info to go off of.

If your husband is already doing steroids and you ahve a limited window for TTC, I would ditch the RepHresh.

There is at least one girl on here who got a boy while her hubby was taking the steroids and hopefuly she will see this and chime in.

[atomic sagebrush]

ok Im on steroids daily (oral prednisolone) anyway I have have 2 boys

This is one of those things that may work differently between DH and DW. may sway blue for DW, pink for DH

[NCBeachyGrl]

My DH is big into working out and takes all kinds of gym supplements. He would never take LR or anything to lower testosterone. But, he has taken one round of steroids (which I was against) and has only been talking about it since. We want to TTC in December and he is really wanting to take another cycle. Not sure what to do either!!

[dloui128]

I conceived a boy while my husband was on oral steroids for his ulcerative colitis

[missmegrn]

There are 2 types of steroids. Ones for athletes to build up muscle and another for medical reasons ( decrease inflammation/supression of immune system). I don't believe they are the same or contain like ingrediants.

[JP2007]

Thanks for the responses everyone! Atomic here is the link to the forum I was reading on Getting Girl PG while on Juice..... . Several people there mention studies showing certain types of steroids producing more girls than others but from what I read there are no links to these studies in the forum. There are lots of testimonials from people who had girls though! I am still up in the air about whether or not I want to TTC when he does a cycle.

I had trouble ovulating after weaning my first son from breastfeeding and am worried that I will have issues again. My doctor already discussed putting me on Clomid which I know sways pink as well but I think it would be a little stressful planning my sway around both Clomid and the steroids since they can only be taken for short periods of time. I do think that if I was able to get pregnant while combining them both plus the LE diet, I would have a pretty good shot at a girl though!

[instant]

bump any update on this?

several others I have talked on on "steroid" forums have noticed this same thing, most see it around 70-80% of those on gear that get there girl pregnant sway pink.. In fact one person had 4 girls while on "gear" and went off gear and had a boy

[instant]

I found this study

In conclusion, we demonstrated a recovery of the spermatogenetic process in this male who had used AASs, and ultrastructural semen analysis clearly demonstrated a sperm quality almost ensuring natural fertility, which was achieved after therapy with gonadotropins. On the other hand, our study also shows, for the first time, anomalies in the meiotic process in this type of case. Therefore, the observed genetic damage involving sperm chromosome segregation could be a sign of alarm for subjects that habitually use steroids.

Structural sperm and aneuploidies studies in a case of spermatogenesis recovery after the use of androgenic anabolic steroids

Any thoughts on that study and being able to break it down?