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Decoding the Mystery of Your Infertility Diagnosis

January 27, 2012
Decoding the Mystery of Your Infertility Diagnosis

One of the latest more confusing acronyms linked to infertility is AMH, which stands for antimullerian hormone. I have summarized my view of the low AMH diagnosis and my take on the current accepted treatment protocols prescribed by reproductive endocrinologists and fertility specialists in a separate document titled Does a Low AMH Indicate “Infertility: Getting [...]

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The Troubling Femara Infertility Connection

January 27, 2012
The Troubling Femara Infertility Connection

Choosing your path when fertility doctors offer conflicting opinions on the Femara infertility connection, Femara as a fertility drug of choice for anovulation, unexplained infertility and PCOS treatment. By Julia Indichova. As many of my clients report, an increasing number of fertility doctors are now prescribing Femara instead of Clomid for infertility related difficulties, ovulation [...]

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FSH Levels and Menopause: Getting Pregnant with High FSH

January 27, 2012
FSH Levels and Menopause: Getting Pregnant with High FSH

Does a high FSH level signal the onset of menopause? by Julia Indichova It was an FSH level of 42, at age 42, that according to fertility specialists placed me among the irreversibly infertile. Which is why I’ve engaged with the subject of FSH levels such as: The link between FSH levels and menopause, so [...]

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High FSH and Pregnancy

January 27, 2012
High FSH and Pregnancy

One woman’s high FSH fertility story. At the age of 31 and about to embark on my third round of Clomid (I had been trying to conceive for approximately 15 months at that point), I happened to do a routine FSH and E2 reading on Day 3 of my cycle. The test came back with [...]

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Hormones 101 — What You Really Need to Know

January 24, 2012
Hormones 101 — What You Really Need to Know

By Michael Borkin N.M.D. The following excerpt is reprinted with permission from Alternative Medicine magazine, September 2000/#37. For subscription information call 800-333-HEAL (4325). While a great number of women in our culture develop some kind of sexual reproductive organ dysfunction, most are misled about true sexual and reproductive health and what options exist to achieve [...]

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Does a Low AMH Level Indicate Infertility?

December 15, 2011
Does a Low AMH Level Indicate <i>Infertility</i>?

Getting pregnant with low AMH: The Fertile Heart™ Ovum Approach. By Julia Indichova. AMH, another acronym that has been showing up as a troublesome marker linked to infertility, stands for anti-mullerian hormone, a substance produced by granulosa cells at the earliest (primordial) stage of ovarian follicle development. Since the number of these primordial cells is [...]

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