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ASKSo there are Fertility Quizzes and there are Fertility Quizzes! The kind that you might expect is like the one that has been recently released by researchers at Cardiff University called "Do You Know About Your Fertility?" It is quite lovely and could be republished in any women's magazine. It is a lifestyle checker. You take the quiz and find out if you are at risk for infertility. Yes - that is one kind of "Fertility Quiz."
The other kind of fertility quiz is one that I just made up! Let's call it "Do You Really Need That Infertility Procedure?"
Sorry, but I don't have a nifty link for my made up quiz! You will just have to read it here.
So let me fill you in on a bit of inside "fertility industry" dirt. While the treatment of infertility is medicine – medicine is also big business. Now, the fertility industry (I hate calling it an industry) is not different than the "Cancer Industry" or "Addiction Industry." People are working in fields because they dig it - and because they are creating a livelihood. The problem comes when people include a lot of different procedures that up the ante on the patients bill at the end of the day.
Question One: "Do I need iCSi when we don't have male factor?"
Answer: Probably not.
Many centers are now doing iCSi rountinely on all patients. Some are actually including it in the fee, but most charge for it. They are doing this because they don't want to get to the lab and then not be able to fertilize the eggs. And yes, sometimes it happens! So to make sure that you don't have a fertilization disaster, they ask you to do iCSi. Yes - in most cases your bill will increase.
Question Two: "Do I need antibody testing?"
Answer: Probably not.
There are doctors and IVF Centers who deeply believe in some core reasons for infertility that other doctors don't buy into, such as autoimmune reasons for infertility, so they perform antibody testing.
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