Does anyone wish they would have been offered an AMH test years ago?

[Anonymous]

you could have had good AMH at 30 and get a false sense of security.

these tests are not 100% reliable, far from to. I had AMH 0.18 one month and then 1.0 two months later.

the truth is - you don’t know until you try. and you did try and got pregnant easily so most likely your test at 30 would have told you you were very fertile and have nothing to worry about”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you could have had good AMH at 30 and get a false sense of security.

these tests are not 100% reliable, far from to. I had AMH 0.18 one month and then 1.0 two months later.

the truth is - you don’t know until you try. and you did try and got pregnant easily so most likely your test at 30 would have told you you were very fertile and have nothing to worry about”.

Op here. When I met with an RE when I was 37 about why I couldn’t get pregnant and they ran tests which showed an Amy of .30 I was told that I most likely had low AMH when I got pregnant at 35 and that I just got lucky to get pregnant on the first try at 35. So I think having the Amy test at 30 would have been helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you could have had good AMH at 30 and get a false sense of security.

these tests are not 100% reliable, far from to. I had AMH 0.18 one month and then 1.0 two months later.

the truth is - you don’t know until you try. and you did try and got pregnant easily so most likely your test at 30 would have told you you were very fertile and have nothing to worry about”.

Op here. When I met with an RE when I was 37 about why I couldn’t get pregnant and they ran tests which showed an Amy of .30 I was told that I most likely had low AMH when I got pregnant at 35 and that I just got lucky to get pregnant on the first try at 35. So I think having the Amy test at 30 would have been helpful.

30 is very different from 35. you still probably would have had excellent AMH at 30.

also, with all due respect, your RE has no clue what your AMH at 35 was. all he knows is that your AMH at 37 is 0.30 and that you haven't gotten pregnant.

finally, 0.30 is not that bad. it's not great, but people with that level get pregnant all the time. my AMH was lower than that and, while all my IVFs failed, i had two more kids on my own. quality is more important than quantity.

you haven't been able to get pregnant and you are looking for an explanation and this is your worst number so it looms large in your mind. the reality is that your AMH at 30 would probably have been excellent, that nobody knows how much it was at 35 (but we do know that you got pregnant easily!) and that it's been on a low end since 37.

[Anonymous]

I went to see an RE for secondary infertility and after getting my numbers she said "to tell you the truth, these numbers are what we'd expect at your age (39), not great, not awful. But since you've had a kid already we actually don't truly know what they mean--we have no reliable data on AMH or even the other numbers and ability to conceive in people who have done in previously." My AMH was 0.88. We ended up conceiving on our own while gearing up for the first IVF cycle. My message is don't fixate on the numbers, work with your RE on an approach tailored to you specifically.

[Anonymous]

Looking back now at lot of things my OB/GYN told me were not correct. Not just one doctor and not just one thing but many issues with fertility were just wrong. I did ask the right questions and I was persistent and I was given bad information. I wish I had found better doctors sooner.