Why Can’t I Get Pregnant? Infertility Testing — 5 Tests You Might Be Overlooking

Why can't I get pregnant? It's a question that I get asked all the time by my clients, and today I'm going to talk to you about 5 tests, um, and what to look for, ask your practitioner for. These are often overlooked tests, and there's actually 5 more. I have a list of 10 tests that you can go ahead and click on that link below and get that right into your email box. So let's get started today. So number 1 on my list is something called ureaplasma. So there's a whole interview I did, um, on this YouTube channel, if you're watching on YouTube, um, about ureaplasma. I interviewed Erin, and she went through a 2-year struggle with ureaplasma. It's quite a tricky bacteria that occurs in your, um, vaginal biome, and that, along with bacterial vaginosis, can be contributor to ongoing, um, symptoms and ongoing miscarriage and also ongoing infertility. So do your research on ureaplasma and bacterial vaginosis and, um, ask your practitioner if this is something that you can get tested for or can be a contributor to your infertility. Number 2 is thyroid disease and thyroid disorder that is undiagnosed. So if you've heard me talk about thyroid, which I talk about it a lot because it's super important. You know that your thyroid range is huge, like football field range huge. Okay, so you could start out way over here on this end and still be in normal range even though your number is pushed all the way to the opposite end. And that's not good enough when it comes to your fertility. It literally could be the thing that's causing your infertility is that your personalized thyroid number range has shifted from one end of the spectrum to the next. So part of the list that I'm going to provide for you has an extended thyroid panel that you should talk to your practitioner about. It's super important not to just get your TSH number, but free T3, free T4, um, and some other tests along with it so you can get your overall thyroid health picture. So you also want to know because doctors don't do this. Doctors don't look and see if you used to be way over here and now you're way over here on this side. So you need to be proactive for your own health and you need to look those numbers up. It's super important. Um, number 3, blocked tubes. Blocked tubes could be contributing to your infertility. Women come to me all the time and they have not had this basic plumbing test done to make sure that their tubes aren't blocked by scar tissue or, um, for some other reason. So make sure that if you haven't had a histosonopeneogram, that you have that done through your practitioner and make sure that your tubes are open. Number 4 is PCOS or non-ovulation and anti-ovulation. And ovulation is what I was trying to say, not anti. Not ovulating is primary reason for not getting pregnant, and women also don't track that. You can track that with over-the-counter ovulation predictor kits and also undiagnosed PCOS. So those two things can be contributing to your infertility. It always amazes me. Number 5 always amazes me. So the fifth reason that I would give you, the fifth overlooked test that I would give you that is contributing to your infertility is male factor infertility. The fact of the matter is, is that a third of all infertility cases are male factor infertility. Despite that, men's fertility is often overlooked in testing until the woman has been tested and retested and all things eliminated, only to come to find out that is her partner that is the one that is contributing to, um, to the infertility in the relationship. Also, a lot of times, you guys, it's both. There's male factor infertility and there's female contributing factors for infertility. So please, sooner rather than later, make sure that you get your partner tested for— and remember, if you want that test, that list of tests, that there's 5 more commonly overlooked tests, go ahead and click that link and it'll come straight into your email. Email box. Health and blessings to you guys. Bye-bye.