Monday, May 16, 2005

CD21 blood test results is out today

got the results for the blood test this morning from KKH IVF.
I've ovulated. the numbers are 72.3 nmol. no idea what that means but i'm glad that i've ovulated nevertheless.


did some research on the net and came up with these links. will keep them here.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n5_v44/ai_11666518

PROGESTERONE
Serum progesterone testing has been used as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for ectopic or other abnormal pregnancy. [16,17] With follow-up ultrasound scanning used for definitive diagnosis, a quantitative serum progesterone level of more than 25 ng per mL (80 nmol per L) proved 99 percent accurate in predicting a living intrauterine pregnancy. Sixty percent of the patients with progesterone values below 25 ng per mL had abnormal pregnancies.
and this other one
http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/hormonelevels.html#progesterone
which has a chart with all the blood work required and the intepretation.

saw LA this evening as well. He said that almost 99% of his patients husband have low sperm count and they can still get pregnant. oh well, let see how it goes.

he named 6 factors of infertility. can't remember them all - no ovulation, blocked fallopian tubes, low sperm count, fribriods, unexplained infertility. can't remember the 6th one. he suggested to try a couple of months on clomid and if it doesn;t work, to go for a HSG to check for blocked tubes. he eliminated all except for fallopian tubes which he doesn't know till after the HSG.

(it was some time later with a new gynae that we found out that the CD21 blood test is an inaccurtae mtd to confirm an ovulation)

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