got my AMH, and I wish now I did not do the test, 1.38 (range 1.0-10.6, less than 1 = menopause), pretty devastating… and getting the result on CD1 is particularly painful
AMH is replacing FSH as a # that Fertility specialists look for to rule out who is/is not a good candidate for IVF. Low AMH, just means you won't make bucketloads of eggs with drug stimulation, and that is the main point of IVF. Just another # to make you depressed. I cried all afternoon when I heard my .16 (US scale) AMH level. In hindsight, guess I didn't need to know it and stress myself out more. I do believe it really is a lot of luck when a good egg happens to get ovulated amidst all our "bad" ones, but they are mixed up in there!
Bottom line, as long as you get a biphasic chart/temp shift, you ARE ovulating an egg a month, and those rare months you feel twinges on both L and R side, you probably popped out 2 even. I read somewhere by Randine Lewis that women entering perimenopause still have about 10,000 eggs in ovaries, so you can see where the luck part comes in. My grandmother who also had my mother at a 44, never had any of these tests and just got pregnant by accident, (had a 20 something year old son from 1st marriage)
As an additional tip, I find it very suspicious that the 2 times I got my BFP (1st chemical, 2nd stuck) I had been battling a cold those months. If you are sick, especially DTD! I believe the chances are higher that you will get pregnant while you are sick. A woman's body has an immune system that is designed to fight off foreign invaders....ie - Sperm. When the immune system is down because you are sick, the sperm are more likely to get past. This has happened to 2 different couples who were trying for more than 5 years. It wasn't until the wife got sick that they got pregnant. Normally couples don't have sex if the woman isn't feeling well. If you want a baby, there is no better time to have sex than when you are sick and your immune system is down. I believe our bodies are too busy fighting infection to kill off as many sperm as usual (if you watch the Great Sperm Race on you tube, it's a wonder any of the poor guys ever make it).
This is going to be a weird admission, but with this pregnancy, I happened to have a MD appt to get DHEA checked and it was one day after I got my + LH surge. I didn't wash my hands at hospital and actually licked them (eew gross, I know) when I got into car, to hopefully make sure I was sick that cycle. I felt a little cold coming on previous couple of days and figured I'd add fuel to the fire. Luckily, I didn't get a nasty flu, but DID def. have a cold, no fever. I'm normally very healthy and only get a cold once or twice a year, so I had to go with it!
Also, reading below article made me feel better when I got my low AMH results. Go to middle of page where Randine Lewis discusses AMH and women getting preg with an AMH of near zero.
https://www.thefertilesoul.com/pages/Diagnostic_pgs/AMH.php
the minimum used to be 20 million but now they reduced it to 15 million.
