Ovulation Testing After Tubal Reversal: A Fertility Surgeon ’s Advice
Ovulation testing can increase your chances of pregnancy. Dr Monteith offers easy to understand advice for a seemingly complicated fertility test.
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Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - March 27, 2020 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: basal body temperature clomid Femera lh testing menstruation metformin ovulation ovulation testing period pregnancy Source Type: blogs
Medications That Can Cause Depression
There is nothing more frustrating than when the cure is part of the problem. Because depression is prevalent in patients with physical disorders like cancer, stroke, and heart disease, medications often interact with each other, complicating treatment. To appropriately manage depression, you and your physician need to evaluate all medications involved and make sure they aren’t cancelling each other out.
A review in the journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience a while back highlighted certain medications that can cause depression. The following are medications to watch out for.
Medications to Treat Seizures and Parkinso...
Source: World of Psychology - March 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Medications Drug Interactions Mood Disorder Source Type: blogs
Fertility: 12 things you didn ’t know (and 1 to never ask)
By Katrina Mark, MD
1. Fertility naturally declines as we age
That alone doesn’t mean you should start to worry. The general advice I give a woman is if she has been trying to become pregnant for a full year with no luck, she might consider a fertility evaluation. For a woman over age 35, she might consider it after six months. If a woman is younger and has irregular periods, it’s likely she isn’t regularly ovulating, so she might want to be evaluated sooner.
2. Sometimes there’s a reason for infertility – and sometimes, there’s not
There are some things we know cause infertility. About 20 percent of the time,...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Women's Health fertility Katrina Mark obgyn UMMC Source Type: blogs
When infertile patients start obsessing over their test numbers
I'm a big believer in patient empowerment and feel that patients should do as much homework as possible, so they understand what their options are and can make well-informed decisions for themselves. Yes, this does involve a certain amount of effort, but it is possible for patients to decipher medical jargon and understand their options.Lots of husband and family members worry when patients spend time on the internet trying to make sense of their results because they feel that half knowledge is dangerous and that these are decisions which are left to the doctor. Because infertility treatment is elective, there are so many ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - February 17, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Another Wheat Belly baby!
Brianna shared her story with me a couple of years ago after she had lost 49 pounds living the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
Unfortunately, after learning that she was pregnant, she went off track and gained a lot of weight. She recently got back on the Wheat Belly wagon after delivering her baby and again shared her experience, with her 4 month results here:
“FOUR MONTHS no wheat, size 22 to 16 and still going. I seriously can’t believe it.
“I have PCOS [polycystic ovarian syndrome]. After 7 years of trying to conceive, six months following Wheat Belly last time I conceived twice, with second one resulting i...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 26, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grains pcos polycystic testosterone Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Infertile Patient query - IUI versus laparoscopy ?
Hi, Dr Malpani. I have been reading your blog and have found it to be very helpful. My husband and I have started infertility treatments and options. Briefly, this is what has happened: -We have been trying for a year naturally (both 29 years old) -Did blood work to check all hormonal levels and everything is normal -Husband did semen analysis and that is better than normal -PCT was done twice (wish I had known this is kind of outdated and most doctors don't do this but oh well, what is done is done!) and both showed that sperm were not swimming like they should at all -Doctor/OBGYN had recommended using mucinex but cervic...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - July 15, 2014 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Artificial insemination Dr Malpani endometriosis In vitro fertilisation Infertility Invasiveness of surgical procedures laparoscopy Surgery Source Type: blogs
How do I interpret my ovarian reserve test results ?
Modern IVF technology is very effective, and we are every good at making embryos , no matter how poor the sperm quality . The biggest challenge we encounter today is treating patients with poor ovarian reserve, because poor quality eggs result in poor quality embryos.However, there’s a lot of confusion about testing ovarian reserve and egg quality. Just because a woman has poor ovarian reserve does not mean she will necessarily be infertile. After all, all testing has its limitations and flaws. Just like men with low sperm counts can father a pregnancy if their spouse is super-fertile , similarly young women with p...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - February 20, 2014 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Our IVF success story - a test of determination, love and professional support
It was the 3rd year of our marriage -2011. We lost our first baby girl at full term due to meconium aspiration. Just 2 days before this fatal day I had lost my mother to another doctors’ negligence. As a precaution, I had insisted our ob-gynaecologist on the next day of my moms’ death to perform C-section on my wife and then I could also break the news to my wife. She ignored my request despite my in-laws visiting her on the same day with my request to her clinic. All along she kept telling us that it was a precious pregnancy , a successful IUI outcome after diagnosis of mild endometriosis. A well planned c-section was...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - December 25, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Here’s What ABC World News Did, and Did Not, Get Right in Report on Egg Donors
by Diane Tober / Associate Executive Director, Center for Genetics & Society
ABC World News joined other media this week in addressing the astonishing 74 percent rise over the past 10 years in young women providing their eggs so that other women can create families.
Correspondent Cynthia McFadden interviews egg “donors” and fertility practitioners to explore the risks of egg retrieval, and chats with anchor Diane Sawyer about the story. While the segment lets several misleading statements stand, it gets some important things right.
First, the report is clear about the point that young women, primarily college stude...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - November 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Media Reproductive Technology & Genetic Engineering Source Type: blogs
Why is an Infertility specialist a better choice than a Gynaecologist?
It is not unusual to find infertile couples
being confused as to whether they should consult their gynaecologist or find an
infertility specialist to have their problem resolved. What do IVF clinics like
Malpani Infertility Clinic offer which a gynaecologist would not be able to?
The average gynaecologist takes a much
narrower perspective when treating infertility. An IVF facility , on the other
hand, takes a more holistic view. For example, they routinely include the
husband in the diagnosis / treatment process. Gynaecologists , who specialise
in treating women , don’t deal with the men at all.
Also, ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - November 2, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
What to do if you and your spouse disagree about treatment options!
When tackling infertility, you will be
flooded with a variety of treatment options. The field of ART is vast,
and depending on the nature of your problem , the treatment choices can
vary all the way from simple ovulation induction with clomiphene to IVF
and surrogacy.
With the advances in the field of ART, there is a
solution for almost any kind of infertility problem you face, but being
open to different treatment options is not easy for everybody. Not
everyone is comfortable in subjecting themselves or their spouse to
treatments which are not agreeable to them physically or mentally.
Financial conditions, socia...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - June 17, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Nano IVF
With the mushrooming of IVF clinics all across the country, I hope that the quality of care for IVF patients in India will improve. Unfortunately, the tragedy seems to be that most IVF clinics are just copying each other. They are competing for the same set of patients and doing exactly the same thing. They aggressively super ovulate their patients with high doses of injections ; and use agonists and antagonists for down regulation . They copy the protocols which are laid down in western textbooks and western journals , without taking into account the fact that these have been optimized for Western patients - n...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 25, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Clinic In vitro fertilisation India ivf patient Infertility ovulation Physician Source Type: blogs
Family planning, fertility and CLL
As I read comments to my blog, I see many people are being diagnosed with CLL younger and younger, and doctors are starting treatment sooner and sooner. Family planning is a major issue, and I wanted to share my experience with you.
Luckily, no one questioned why we went ahead and had children. We never really talked about having kids and when we did it was postponed for the usual reasons: We need a bigger house, we just bought the house, you just started a new job, we need more money in the bank, etc. Then Bob was diagnosed so we felt like this was it – now or never.
We tried for a year unsuccessfully, and I was ver...
Source: Life with CLL - June 22, 2007 Category: Cancer Authors: Donna Gregory Tags: cancer Source Type: blogs
