What is the minimum amount of sperm or semen needed for testing and freezing?

We can perform an analysis so long as you can produce some semen. The analysis will tell you if your sample has a very low sperm count or no sperm present.

If there are no sperm present in your sample, your results will not be viable for freezing. But even if you have a very low sperm count, your sample is viable for freezing, and freezing may be especially important for those who have poor semen parameters.

For use in IUI, you need a post-thaw total motile sperm count of around 8–10 million. For use in IVF, there is no minimum amount of sperm. The latest techniques used in IVF — called ICSI — only need a single sperm to inject directly into the egg, so a sample with any motile sperm can be used multiple times.