April 13, 2014
So, based on my own research, the science of how our
reproductive systems work, basically, a follicle grows and released an egg over
the course of 150 days, or about 5 months. In my mind, this is what I keep
telling myself. My AMH, was less than .03. So, almost none!! The “egg timer”
test as they call this basically says your egg quality is zip. However, as I
researched this more, that couldn’t be more incorrect. It says that your
GROWING follicles are zip. It has nothing to do with your egg quality or how
many dormant follicles you have. There is absolutely no test (to my knowledge)
that can test that with absolute certainty. The AMH test is based on
assumption. Wow! Something I wish the doctors would have mentioned. So much of
these tests are based on assumption, because they think because it IS one way,
it cannot improve. No fault of their own necessarily, that’s the way POF is
viewed by Western Medicine.
As I dug further, I found several articles stating just
that, but am including a link here written by Randine Lewis. I have her book
and love it so I wasn’t surprised to find this article online.
In it, she said the same thing. Just because your follicle
count, or AMH appears to be “0”, if you can wake up your ovaries, you can
indeed start growing them. Your egg quality is determined basically over the
three months before it’s decided it will be the dominant follicle.
Looking at my POF timeline, I was diagnosed early January,
got my second opinion and final blood tests nearing the end of January. I made
some immediate changes, but my first acupuncture session was January 29th.
Based on that initial date, the end of June is really when I should start to
see improvement. If I’d had a normal AMH, I’d anticipate results three months
sooner.
So, I will be patient. I really do feel like things are
starting to swing in the right direction. My body has made a lot of
improvement, and I know for a fact there was at least one follicle the doctor
saw on my initial u/s during the diagnosis process. Maybe I can catch that
little egg as it’s finally released, but if not, I hold faith that I will have
a whole slew of healthy follicles and eggs in the near future.
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