The last thing I will talk about is infertility and all that goes along with that.  Unfortunately, men with CF get the raw end of the deal.  Upwards of 97% of men with CF are infertile.  That’s not to say that through the magic of medicine that they can’t reproduce.  It just take a lot more time, effort and money to do so.   Once again the dang thick sticky mucus puts a stop to things in our bodies.  There is mucus throughout your body which is to include the cervix of women.  With that said, the thick mucus doesn’t allow the sperm to get where it needs to go to fertilize the egg.  The egg itself might have trouble traveling down the fallopian tube also.  So needless to say it could take a real miracle of God for some CF women to get pregnant.  Continue reading →