Before we found Dr. Silber, we had no hope for a future as parents. We were told by several physicians and their staff to “give up” …literally… we were told to give up. I spent two years trying to deal with that reality, then I ran across Dr. Silber’s website and I read his story and I started to cry. For the first time in years, he had given me back my hope and I was allowed to start dreaming again!
I was so nervous when we sat down to speak to Dr. Silber, because I was afraid he was going to tell us that it wasn’t an option, that it wasn’t going to work. We sat there listening to him explain the surgery, the recovery and the expected outcome. He was warm, inviting and encouraging! We left his office that night with smiles from ear to ear!
The surgery went off without a hitch, and recovery was quite simple. The staff at the hospital were professional and kind, and we left St. Louis with an unimaginable amount of hope in our hearts! All of Terry’s sperm counts came back well above the “normal range” and slowly we began to realize that it had worked and we were going to be parents! All of our physicians back home were constantly amazed at how high Terry’s counts were. We heard doctors say frequently as they looked at his count results, “How long was it between your vasectomy and reversal?”.
Dr. Silber didn’t just reverse my husband’s vasectomy, he instilled hope in our hearts, which had been stripped away… and he allowed us to dream again… and those dreams came true!
Thanks so much for being the people who give back the hope!
Update from the patient:
Just wanted to send you an update for our family. In December we welcomed our second set of twins! From years of being told we’d never be parents… to becoming a family of 6! We just want to thank you all for the work you do! Thanks again!
Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.
Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.
Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.
The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

