Recent content by Rob9874

FYI, for those who want to know more about the F508/R117H and 5T & 7T details. This site was very informative (and detailed). <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge...

Thanks everyone. I am definitely going to a CF center, and want to get regular checkups, just to monitor everything. But I realize I am very lucky having the mutations that I have, and no 5T variant. I feel like I know as much about CF now as most doctors (and obviously more than my...

Thanks guys. I will call a CF center this week. I found this online, which is encouraging (but I'll still follow up): "CBAVD is, in most cases, considered to be a mild CF-related disease. Of the men identified to have CBAVD and not show signs of CF, 85% of them have one mild mutation and one...

OK, back from the doctor. Everything I read about "isolated CBAVD" (CF that only affects the vas deferens and nothing else) says that the mutation pair is usually F508 & R117H. The R117H is Class 4, and becomes the dominant mutation, over the more severe F508. The good news is, that is the...

Thanks Jennifer. You live up to your name's sake. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I'm hoping to get similar hope from the doc, but he's a urologist, and I'm sure will leave the details up to the CF center. I want to hope it's isolated to the BAVD, but I don't...

I'm a 31 year old male, and I was just diagnosed with CF. Well, officially tomorrow at my dr. appt. I had a fertility test done last month, as my wife and I were having problems getting pregnant. Long story short, we found out I have CBAVD, and the urologist wanted to check to see if I'm a CF...