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Fertility Test
If you are trying hard to conceive, but you have
had little luck, it is time for you to reconsider what you should
do. One third of the couples will go to see a fertility specialist
and hope to help for getting pregnant. The other two thirds will sit
back and try to decide what they should do. Often the next step is
looking into the kinds of tests that can be done to figure out where
the problem is. Since they do not want to see a doctor they will
often turn to the local drug store to see if they have a fertility
test that they can try. Some of them are predicting tests and some
of them are diagnostic tests. People want to know what is preventing
them from conceiving.
It is always best if a woman who chooses to try some of these tests
is certain she has a regular cycle. The most common type of
fertility test is the ovulation prediction test. It uses test strips
that use the first thing in the morning urine from a woman to
determine certain levels in the body. When these levels become
higher that is the sign that a woman is fertile. These test kits are
not cheap, the monitor can cost well over a hundred dollars and the
strips are as high as fifty dollars per cycle. But for many, these
costs are worth the price to help them get pregnant.
For men, the fertility test done most often involves the number of
sperm a man has. If there are not at least twenty million per
millimeter, then it will be difficult for a woman to get pregnant if
her partner only has a lesser amount. The other problem is that the
number of sperm is not the only thing that must be tested and these
cannot be done at home since a man must also be tested for motility
and for the shape of the sperm if he is trying to get his partner
pregnant.
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