Female Fertility Test
By Brian Xu | 03 August 2020 | 0 Comments
Testing female fertility can be a complex process. Fertility tests include basal body temperature charting and ovulation prediction tests. However, if you are trying to conceive, it’s best to visit a physician although testing.
Testing at home
1. Follow your cycle with a calendar
Make a badge while your period starts and ends. You can either use a physical calendar or an app through your cell-phone. There are also websites that provide free fertility trackers. Ovulation typically happens almost 14 days before your period starts. If your periods are regular, you can usually figure out the date.
2. Check your basal body temperature
Take the temperature in the morning after you get up and record it. Your temperature will arise a little bit when you ovulate.
3. Use ovulation test strips to foretell ovulation
This examination is to detect your luteinizing hormone surge. You just get your urine with a cup and immerse the strip into the urine to examine it. Then read the results in 5 minutes. Check on our website for test strips.
www.mommed.com
4. Try the ferning saliva examination to discover ovulation with a microscope
If you are comfortable using a microscope, you can do saliva ferning tests to check. This involves taking a swab of your saliva in the middle of your cycle and placing it above a cup slide. Put the slide under a microscope and if there is a ferning pattern that resembles the leaves of a fern plant. If there is, you are ovulating.
Getting Routine Fertility Testing
1. Visit a gynecologist
If you have been trying to conceive more than 1 year, or if you are above 35 and you have been trying to conceive more than 6 months without success. Your OB-GYN can check problems that can block pregnancy, such as lifestyle factors, pre-existing medical conditions, or hormonal imbalances. For example, your physician can advise you to escape drinking alcohol. Your physician can re-check your thyroid levels. If you have hypothyroidism, your physician can adjust your medication.
2. Visit a reproductive endocrinologist for more testing
If your OB-GYN is unable to diagnose or treat your infertility, you can visit a reproductive endocrinologist for further checking. They will have more treatment options than an OB-GYN.
3. Check through bloodwork
This is to check the general hormonal issues that can block pregnancy. The hormonal issues are luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, estradiol, progesterone, prolactin, Free T3, testosterone.
4. Use ultrasound to check the thickness of your endometrium
If your endometrium is not thick enough, the egg will not be able to implant it. Ultrasounds are non-invasive, painless, and fast to perform.
5. Post-coital cervical Mucus examination to check about sperm
The physician will check your cervical mucus from the inner of your vaginal canal by using a microscope to check if the sperm are alive and moving around.
6. Hysterosalpingogram to check inner structures
During this test, your physician will use a catheter to inject a compare with dye into your cervix, after the dye passes into your uterus, the physician will have X-ray images. The dye goes along your fallopian tubes if they are open, and if it does not, this means that there is a blockage. The test is uncomfortable, you will have a cramping sensation until the test is over, however it is fast.
Additional Tests
1. Hysteroscopy
This is to check if the HSG shows a latent abnormality. A hysteroscopy involves inserting a small camera into your cervix to get images about the inner of your uterus.
2. Diagnostic Laparoscopy
It is a surgical procedure that allows your physician to visit the inner of your uterus by using a small fiberoptic camera to insert into your abdomen. So they can find abnormalities, such as endometriosis or wound tissue. This procedure is performed under general anesthesia.
3. Ovarian retain testing if you are above 35
This test can be helpful for women who are older than 35, as their egg providing begins to decline. It involves a few various hormone blood tests.
For more information:
Our official website home page: www.mommed.com
Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mommedcare
Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mommedcare/
https://www.instagram.com/mommedofficial/
Our Reddit Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/TTCSupportGroup/
Testing at home
1. Follow your cycle with a calendar
Make a badge while your period starts and ends. You can either use a physical calendar or an app through your cell-phone. There are also websites that provide free fertility trackers. Ovulation typically happens almost 14 days before your period starts. If your periods are regular, you can usually figure out the date.
2. Check your basal body temperature
Take the temperature in the morning after you get up and record it. Your temperature will arise a little bit when you ovulate.
3. Use ovulation test strips to foretell ovulation
This examination is to detect your luteinizing hormone surge. You just get your urine with a cup and immerse the strip into the urine to examine it. Then read the results in 5 minutes. Check on our website for test strips.
www.mommed.com
4. Try the ferning saliva examination to discover ovulation with a microscope
If you are comfortable using a microscope, you can do saliva ferning tests to check. This involves taking a swab of your saliva in the middle of your cycle and placing it above a cup slide. Put the slide under a microscope and if there is a ferning pattern that resembles the leaves of a fern plant. If there is, you are ovulating.
Getting Routine Fertility Testing
1. Visit a gynecologist
If you have been trying to conceive more than 1 year, or if you are above 35 and you have been trying to conceive more than 6 months without success. Your OB-GYN can check problems that can block pregnancy, such as lifestyle factors, pre-existing medical conditions, or hormonal imbalances. For example, your physician can advise you to escape drinking alcohol. Your physician can re-check your thyroid levels. If you have hypothyroidism, your physician can adjust your medication.
2. Visit a reproductive endocrinologist for more testing
If your OB-GYN is unable to diagnose or treat your infertility, you can visit a reproductive endocrinologist for further checking. They will have more treatment options than an OB-GYN.
3. Check through bloodwork
This is to check the general hormonal issues that can block pregnancy. The hormonal issues are luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, estradiol, progesterone, prolactin, Free T3, testosterone.
4. Use ultrasound to check the thickness of your endometrium
If your endometrium is not thick enough, the egg will not be able to implant it. Ultrasounds are non-invasive, painless, and fast to perform.
5. Post-coital cervical Mucus examination to check about sperm
The physician will check your cervical mucus from the inner of your vaginal canal by using a microscope to check if the sperm are alive and moving around.
6. Hysterosalpingogram to check inner structures
During this test, your physician will use a catheter to inject a compare with dye into your cervix, after the dye passes into your uterus, the physician will have X-ray images. The dye goes along your fallopian tubes if they are open, and if it does not, this means that there is a blockage. The test is uncomfortable, you will have a cramping sensation until the test is over, however it is fast.
Additional Tests
1. Hysteroscopy
This is to check if the HSG shows a latent abnormality. A hysteroscopy involves inserting a small camera into your cervix to get images about the inner of your uterus.
2. Diagnostic Laparoscopy
It is a surgical procedure that allows your physician to visit the inner of your uterus by using a small fiberoptic camera to insert into your abdomen. So they can find abnormalities, such as endometriosis or wound tissue. This procedure is performed under general anesthesia.
3. Ovarian retain testing if you are above 35
This test can be helpful for women who are older than 35, as their egg providing begins to decline. It involves a few various hormone blood tests.
For more information:
Our official website home page: www.mommed.com
Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mommedcare
Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mommedcare/
https://www.instagram.com/mommedofficial/
Our Reddit Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/TTCSupportGroup/
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