Tag Archives: Infertility Treatment
12.20.2012
“Decreased Ovarian Reserve”: Is there a “best test”?
The American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the professional committee for experts in reproductive endocrinology and infertility medicine, put out a committee opinion this month on testing and interpreting measures of ovarian reserve. A woman’s eggs, or oocytes, are the greatest when she is a fetus and decline in number as she ages. Ovarian reserve [...]
06.21.2012
Infertility Stress is Stressing Me Out
Misnomer or not, the belief that infertility is a psychologically driven condition exists. It is true that extreme circumstances of stress such as famine and in times such as war, fecundity rates decrease. However, whether the psychologic stress imparted by our hectic lives coupled with the added stress of improving fertility contributes to infertility is [...]
04.19.2012
Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy After Infertility Therapy
I’ve waited so long to become pregnant and have been through so much. Now that I finally am, I’m as sick as a dog. Why is this happening to me? Don’t worry. Your body is not trying to reject the pregnancy that you have worked so hard to have. Nausea and vomiting is extremely common [...]
02.09.2012
Spitting: A Bad Habit. The Role of Saliva vs. Serum (Blood) Test for Hormone Evaluation
Patients undergoing infertility treatment are faced with numerous appointments, various testing, “needle-pricks” by phlebotomists, and injections of fertility medications. Quality centers search for ways to minimize the stress and inconvenience that infertility treatment can impose on patients and search for ways to make treatment more “patient-friendly“ without compromising pregnancy success rates. We believe that making infertility [...]
