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Ok Ladies, I need your help...
I have a dr's appointment in a couple of days for something unrelated to TTC but since I'm going, I (gulp) think I want to persue getting some help with conceiving. What are the first steps in looking into your and your husband's fertility? Are there specific tests that I should ask to have done? Should I just ask to see a RE? Should I just to continue to see if it will happen on it's own. We have to actively trying for 4 months but have been taking the "see what happens" method for about a year.
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Are you comfortable with your gyno? If so I would start there also it depends on your age - if you are over 35 then I would up the 4 months to 6 months and mention it to your dr.
I went right to an RE but that was because I'm not due to see the gyno until November and I didn't want to see her to be told to see an RE so I skipped a step.
Your gyno can test you for thyroid to see if that is an issue. I'm not sure if they do the other testing.
Here are some of the tests -
day 3 testing - FSH, estrogen
day 10 (I think) progesterone
SA for your DH
prenatal series, genetic series
HSG
I probably don't have the correct names of all the bloodwork.
Good luck!
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karacg
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Hmmmm the first thing we did is send DH for a semen analysis - it's painLESS and easy!!
Your dr. will probably tell you to chart for a few months before taking any measures, but the SA for DH is a piece of cake so why wait, I say...
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CookiePuss
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Thanks ladies...
I am very comfortable with the dr so that isn't a problem. I also just had my thyroid checked and that is fine. I really don't want to wait much longer because it has been almost a year and nothing! Plus I have also started to have irregular periods and that has never happened before so I want to know why that is going on. I'm 33 already and don't want to wait another 6 months. Maybe I'm just being impatient but this whole thing is taking a toll.
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| Posted 8/16/05 2:30 PM |
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karacg
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
33? Just a babe...OK teasing, but I am 39 so yeah, the "chart for a few motnhs" thing didn't fly with me either.
So tell your Dr. you have been taking temps. and charting and using the OPKs but want to know what is the next move. S/he should be able to take you to the "next level".
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Posted by karacg
So tell your Dr. you have been taking temps. and charting and using the OPKs but want to know what is the next move. S/he should be able to take you to the "next level".
I agree with this. That's what I did and it worked for me - after lots of tests he put me on Clomid to try to move the process along because I wasn't ovulating.
Can't hurt to try.
Good luck and baby dust!! 
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| Posted 8/16/05 3:16 PM |
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mrsmck
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Good luck, M!!!!
We're kind of in the same boat. Officially trying for about 3 months. I'm thinking of giving it til the end of the year, then if nothing, I'm going back to the GYN.
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MrsJ
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Good luck with everything! Test DH first - its easiest!
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| Posted 8/16/05 3:40 PM |
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dm24angel
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Itold my obgyn after 5 months, maybe 6 of usuing temping, and OPKs and charting, she said give it another month and then to call the RE....thats what we did...actually I think she said 2 more months, but we jumped the gun a little with the RE.
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
The first step my gyno did before he sent me to a RE is test DH. When he came back fine, they did an endometrial biopsy on me because I was having irregular periods too. It came back I wasnt ovulating.
Best of luck, and let us know how it goes
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redstar
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Posted by Donna
Are you comfortable with your gyno? If so I would start there also it depends on your age - if you are over 35 then I would up the 4 months to 6 months and mention it to your dr.
I went right to an RE but that was because I'm not due to see the gyno until November and I didn't want to see her to be told to see an RE so I skipped a step.
Your gyno can test you for thyroid to see if that is an issue. I'm not sure if they do the other testing.
Here are some of the tests -
day 3 testing - FSH, estrogen
day 10 (I think) progesterone
SA for your DH
prenatal series, genetic series
HSG
I probably don't have the correct names of all the bloodwork.
Good luck!
I agree with Donna, they will have you go through all of that. I just wanted to add, that, ultrasounds are also very helpful. They are able to tell your follicule size and thickness of uterine lining, depending where you are in your cycle. Also during day 3, they should do a u/s to see if you have any cysts. Progesterone is actually tested on 7 days past ovulation,.....that's how they can determine if you are ovulating and if you can probably sustain pregnancy without supplementation. Progesterone is one of the leading causes of early miscarriage....so therefore, having progesterone checked appropriately is so very important !!!!!! Many ob/gyn's do not test progesterone and if they do, they do it on cycle day 21, which insinuates that you ovulate on cd14. We all know, most of us aren't ovulating exactly on cd14. My advice is this: If you are at the point that you feel you are trying your best and things aren't working out, then go straight to an RE. Unfortunately ob/gyn's aren't usually trained in fertility. They overmedicate and under monitor patients. Sorry to say, but their job is to assist during pregnancy and delivery, not really in "getting you pregnant" .
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CookiePuss
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Re: Ok Ladies, I need your help...
Thank you all for your help. I will let you all know how it goes!
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