Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 2
By: Amanda Grazioli
Everyone who struggles to build their family has a different story, but some elements of the journey are familiar to many.
One of those common experiences is navigating that first set of fertility tests.
As a female patient, I left my first reproductive endocrinology appointment with my head spinning. Suddenly my calendar was filled with reminders to schedule “Day Three Labs” and transvaginal ultrasounds. I soon learned the discomfort of an office hysteroscopy. I dutifully arrived for my hysterosalpingogram to assess the shape of my uterus and identify any obstructions in my fallopian tubes or uterine cavity. And while I didn’t need laparoscopic surgery to evaluate endometriosis, I know plenty of other women who have.
My husband, on the other hand?
He, like nearly every male partner in the last several decades, only had to undergo a single test to assess his fertility: a semen analysis.