littleturnip
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 7, 2009
- Messages
- 100
- Reaction score
- 0
I want to share my story in case it's helpful to anyone. BTW, I'm 35.
After 18 months TTC -including an early MC last year- we finally went to a fertility doctor. She did "all the tests", which were really just DH semen analysis, my bloodwork, and a water sonogram to check that everything was normal inside.
Since all tests came ok she diagnosed us with "unexplained infertility" and wanted to put me on fertility drugs to start trying AI, followed of course by IVF if that didn't work.
I didn't see the need for fertility drugs when I knew I OV every month, so I found this doctor who wrote a book about natural/healthier ways to get pregnant and how the whole IVF is a multimillion dollar business (at least here in the US).
The doc is expensive and doesn't accept insurance, but even that would be cheaper than IVF, so we decided to give it a try. Turns out there are many more things to check for, and one of them is the cervical mucus.
One of the things he did was a postcoital test. Basically you have sex the night before, then come to the office and he takes a sample of your CM. Then right there in front of you he checks the PH of it, since sperm won't survive if the CM is too acidic. Mine turned out to be really acidic, and he immediately said to me "I bet you all the sperm is dead by now". Then he put it on a microscope and I could see the death sperm!
It was sad, but at the same time a relief to know someone had found the cause of my infertility! an acidic CM can be caused by infection or diet, but test for infection came out negative and my diet is generally healthy, no caffeine, etc.
So he taught me how to do a douche with baking soda and told me to try it the next day which was OV day a few hours before having sex.
guess what? I got pregnant that very same day! now I'm 9W and so far things are good, and hopefully will continue that way.
all I'm saying is, try to find a doctor who is more concerned about finding what your problem really is and less concerned about how much easier -and how much money he'll get- giving you tons of drugs and IVF.
If you're interested in the book by my doctor, it's called "making babies" and his name is Dr. Sami David
Good luck ladies!
After 18 months TTC -including an early MC last year- we finally went to a fertility doctor. She did "all the tests", which were really just DH semen analysis, my bloodwork, and a water sonogram to check that everything was normal inside.
Since all tests came ok she diagnosed us with "unexplained infertility" and wanted to put me on fertility drugs to start trying AI, followed of course by IVF if that didn't work.
I didn't see the need for fertility drugs when I knew I OV every month, so I found this doctor who wrote a book about natural/healthier ways to get pregnant and how the whole IVF is a multimillion dollar business (at least here in the US).
The doc is expensive and doesn't accept insurance, but even that would be cheaper than IVF, so we decided to give it a try. Turns out there are many more things to check for, and one of them is the cervical mucus.
One of the things he did was a postcoital test. Basically you have sex the night before, then come to the office and he takes a sample of your CM. Then right there in front of you he checks the PH of it, since sperm won't survive if the CM is too acidic. Mine turned out to be really acidic, and he immediately said to me "I bet you all the sperm is dead by now". Then he put it on a microscope and I could see the death sperm!
It was sad, but at the same time a relief to know someone had found the cause of my infertility! an acidic CM can be caused by infection or diet, but test for infection came out negative and my diet is generally healthy, no caffeine, etc.
So he taught me how to do a douche with baking soda and told me to try it the next day which was OV day a few hours before having sex.
guess what? I got pregnant that very same day! now I'm 9W and so far things are good, and hopefully will continue that way.
all I'm saying is, try to find a doctor who is more concerned about finding what your problem really is and less concerned about how much easier -and how much money he'll get- giving you tons of drugs and IVF.
If you're interested in the book by my doctor, it's called "making babies" and his name is Dr. Sami David
Good luck ladies!