star fish
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Hi, just thought I should share this relevant info that I only learnt today. I went to my doctors as she told me to come back in 6 months to discuss fertility tests. Well it's been 6 months so i went and had an appointment this afternoon.
There are a whole bunch of things they do tests for. They are all blood tests BUT THE REALLY IMPORTANT THING IS: they have to do it in two stages on different dates in your cycle.
One set of tests must be from blood drawn during the first 5 days of your cycle. The second set of tests has to be AFTER you have ovulated, so they specify Day 21. That date is if you have a standard 28 day cycle - which i dont - so mine would have been on day 18, which is on Saturday, so she said come back tomorrow and hopefully you will have already ovulated, I assured her that i HAVE already ovulated and so i managed to get the first set of tests done today. I have an appointment to go back in 10 days for the second test.
The only reason i want to let you all know is because you need to get your diaries out and book the two dates as soon as your doctor says she will meet with you to discuss testing, otherwise you could be waiting an entire nother cycle. She wanted to palm me off to next month, but I said if a nurse was free today then i would prefer to get on with it and so she grudingly checked and there was a nurse who could do it, so that's 50% checked off! Which means i'll have the whole lot done by the end of the month now instead of by the end of next month.
Sorry, it's a bit of a long boring email, but I would have wanted someone to tell me so i could be a jump ahead.
Starfish xxxx
There are a whole bunch of things they do tests for. They are all blood tests BUT THE REALLY IMPORTANT THING IS: they have to do it in two stages on different dates in your cycle.
One set of tests must be from blood drawn during the first 5 days of your cycle. The second set of tests has to be AFTER you have ovulated, so they specify Day 21. That date is if you have a standard 28 day cycle - which i dont - so mine would have been on day 18, which is on Saturday, so she said come back tomorrow and hopefully you will have already ovulated, I assured her that i HAVE already ovulated and so i managed to get the first set of tests done today. I have an appointment to go back in 10 days for the second test.
The only reason i want to let you all know is because you need to get your diaries out and book the two dates as soon as your doctor says she will meet with you to discuss testing, otherwise you could be waiting an entire nother cycle. She wanted to palm me off to next month, but I said if a nurse was free today then i would prefer to get on with it and so she grudingly checked and there was a nurse who could do it, so that's 50% checked off! Which means i'll have the whole lot done by the end of the month now instead of by the end of next month.
Sorry, it's a bit of a long boring email, but I would have wanted someone to tell me so i could be a jump ahead.
Starfish xxxx