{"id":212,"date":"2006-06-05T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-06-05T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:59:09","slug":"fertility-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Fertility Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, just doing some reading through the library site. (I have discovered ebooks. It is not a particularily <i>good<\/i> ebook, but it&#8217;s something I can read now, as opposed to waiting for the good books to be shipped to the local library.) Basic info:<\/p>\n<p>Things to be checked \/ Tests that can be performed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the Male<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semen Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Yeah, that&#8217;s basically it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the Female<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tubes\n<ul>\n<li>HSG (dye test, check for blockages)<\/li>\n<li>Lap (surgical proceedure, sample)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cervical Mucus\n<ul>\n<li>Post-coital test (check how the spermies do in the CM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hormones &#038; Ovulation\n<ul>\n<li>Check progesterone levels (1-3 blood tests in LP)<\/li>\n<li>Endometrial biopsy (tissue sample)<\/li>\n<li>Pelvic ultrasound (can see follicles developing)<\/li>\n<li>Day-3 FSH levels (evaluate egg reserves)<\/li>\n<li>Prolactin (blood test, hormone that can screw up cycles)<\/li>\n<li>TSH (thyroid function &#8211; can really mess up cycles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t that fun. (Not.) Apparently there&#8217;s a lot of things that can go wrong in a female. Everything surgical is off-limits for the time being and for some time to come &#8211; not willing to go there yet. *shudder* But I would not be adverse to getting my progesterone checked and maybe a pelvic ultrasound and the FSH checked.<\/p>\n<p>Of course first things first: sperm analysis. That&#8217;s first. My testing can wait another few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, just doing some reading through the library site. (I have discovered ebooks. It is not a particularily good ebook, but it&#8217;s something I can read now, as opposed to waiting for the good books to be shipped to the local library.) Basic info: Things to be checked \/ Tests that can be performed: For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}