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If you have been trying to concieve conceive for over a year and conception has not occuredoccurred, Your gp your GP may make a referral to a fertility clinic within the hospital to do some basic tests.
===Some of the basic test tests may include===
====Blood tests to check for ovulation====
During all my time trying to conceive I must of have had this test done the most. Each and every month day 21 of my cycle would come and along came the jab in the arm with it.
This test is done to monitor hormone changes in the blood to see if you are ovulating, even if you are taking a drug to induce a monthly bleed or it is your natural cycle it can give a clear indication of whats what's going on.
====Test for chlamydiaChlamydia====
This doesn't mean the gp GP thinks you have a wild sex life its , it's just a routine test that is done.
Chlamydia is one of the biggest STI and its it's on the rise too, . This is mainly due to people not knowing they have it as its a silint silent infection, with little or no symptoms.
I too have had many of these, for me they have been done during a routine pap smear.
An ultrasound scan can be carried out to check the woman's ovaries, womb and fallopian tubes.
This scan was done for me many years ago and my diagnosis of PCOS came from this examination, My overies ovaries looked like bunches of groups grapes with all the stimmulated folicles stimulated follicles that had never been released.
Other conditions that can affect the womb, such as endometriosis and fibroids, can prevent pregnancy from occurring.
The male partner will be asked to produce a sperm sample and take it for analysis.
For me and my partner this was funny, I remember the first time "theres there's been many" I went to help him but couldn't stop laughing, just knowing that it had to be at hospital within an hour of release gave me the giggles.
So when the job in hand is done! You you must get the sample to the hospital labs within an hour and did I mention carrying it in your bra the whole way there as it must be kept at body temperature lol.
More information on these test can be found at [http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/fertility-tests.aspx/ NHSDIRECT]
--[[User:Kerryflump|Kerryflump]] ([[User talk:Kerryflump|talk]]) 11:47, 30 April 2013 (UTC)