CMV negative vs postive?

zahava1980

farmgirl34

NYCMom

When we were looking for our donor a few years ago I didn't come across any donors that were positive, I'm surprised you are finding so many. My Dr told me she didn't think they allowed positive men to donate even. I just searched and do see there are some positive donors listed, I guess just none that matched our search criteria when we were looking. Good luck finding the right match (our donor is sold out/retired/inactive/whatever they call it, lol).

madmud

CMV is actually increadably common in the population. causes a mono like illness. it can be devistating if you catch it during a pregnancy. I was supprised to find out I was still CMV negative! I tested negative in college and the blood bank used to hit me up constantly to donate for the neonates (they have to have CMV neg blood the only reason I know all of this stuff BTW)! Most people catch it have the 'mono ' like issue and never know it came and went untill they are tested. Hope this helps. I'm now in the same boat of looking for a CMV neg donor too so, here's to going with gut feelings!

natzg

So as common as CMV is - 50% to 85% in the USA and up to 100% in developing countries - I somehow managed to not contract it. And that's with growing up in South Africa. So here I am with a negative status and battling to find someone suitable with a corresponding negative status. I've opened my search to other sperms banks. Who would have thought I'd be so grumpy about not having contracted a disease!

Singingirl96

I'm cmv negative and my donor is positive. All donors that fit my requirements were positive so I didn't have much of a choice. I spoke to my doctor about it and he said that up until last year they didn't even check for it. The chances of contracting it are so unbelievably minor that it really isn't something to worry about. Plus, think about it. What if my dh was cmv positive? I'm not concerned.

maria2

I'm also CMV negative...and asked my doctor about this...My doctor said its fine that donor is CMV IgG Antibody "positive." If donor was CMV IgM Antibody "positive" then the sperm bank wouldn't him. Most people are CMV positive. Don't worry.

clarapippa

I also asked my doctor about CMV, and Rh Factor, and he said quite honestly it doesn't matter in the vast majority of situations. Don't worry about it unless your doctor says something specifically to you!

tillie

I'm still struggling with this, being negative myself. If the donor is infectious, then they trash the sperm. So there are no active donors who are infectious, as far as the sperm bank knows, and this is one reason they do the quarantine. If they are positive, it is because they were once infected and it is no longer active but somehow still in the system. If you husband was positive and you were negative, the risk would be low because in most situations you would be having you know what with him and contract it well prior to pregnancy, if he was infectious. My first donor was negative, but now that I'm out of him, I am so tempted to pick a positive donor (way more good choices). But if something happened, I would never forgive myself. Any new thoughts on this? Are these positive donors with old infections actually able to infect people??

Liz