I still remember when I first learned that I could order pregnancy tests in bulk over the internet. I had been spending large sums of money on home pregnancy tests from the grocery store. I estimate that I spent over $1000 just on pregnancy tests over a period of a few years! By purchasing in bulk, I went from spending around $40 per month on pregnancy tests to less than $5. That is quite a savings!
You can buy home pregnancy tests in bulk quantities for as little as $0.38 each! So, an order for 100 of them would cost less than $40. Considering that a two pack of pregnancy tests will run you about $15 in the grocery store, it is so worth it to order them in bulk.
Another plus to ordering pregnancy tests in bulk is the fact that you can test as many times per day as you want! When I was neck deep in my infertility crisis I felt compelled to repeatedly test for pregnancy for a good week before my period. This happened every month. I actually kept most of my home pregnancy tests each month, and arranged them in order in a drawer. This may sound disgusting, but I wanted desperately to be able to see the very moment that I was able to turn a pregnancy test positive, and then be able to witness my HCG level rising with darker test lines.
I don't really advocate the obsessive compulsive approach to home pregnancy tests, but realistically countless women are spending loads of money on tests from the grocery store as I was. It just makes economic sense to purchase your pregnancy tests in bulk and save a ton of money!
The company that I chose to order my home pregnancy tests from is called TestCountry.com, You can also order pregnancy tests from sites like ebay. However, some of the reviews I read from women that purchased their tests from ebay were not that great. You just never know what you are going to get when you buy from ebay as so many of what gets sold there is being imported from places like China, where there is no regulation of health products. At least with TestCountry.com you are assured of getting quality bulk home pregnancy tests that other women have tried and reported as reliable.
Other fertility products sold in bulk by TestCountry.com are:
Ovulation Predictor Tests
Home Sperm Count Test
Menopause Test
While I personally didn't worry about early menopause when trying to get pregnant, since my periods were very regular and I had good hormone levels, this is a problem for a certain percentage of women trying to conceive. Likewise, my husband had a sperm analysis done by my OB, but I absolutely would have purchased the sperm count test if I had known about it!
So whatever your particular testing needs are, pregnancy tests, ovulation tests, menopause tests, and sperm tests can all be purchased in bulk from TestCountry.com for a massive discount!
Good luck in your trying to conceive adventure!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Fertility Issues: Why I Don't Regret Them
After
struggling with fertility issues for a full three years, I chose to
have in vitro fertilization (IVF). When I first learned that I was
carrying twins as a result of my very first IVF cycle, I was ecstatic.
In spite of my fertility issues, I was going to have two babies! It
seemed that there couldn't have been a better outcome.
My morning sickness and fatigue were severe, which my doctor said was due to my carrying twins. I was also diagnosed with anemia in my first trimester. At only 13 weeks, I began to have regular contractions as well as some intermittent spotting. My doctor chose to put me on disability for the rest of my pregnancy and told me to take it easy as much as possible.
At 22 weeks pregnant, I developed gestational diabetes and started on a special diet prescribed by my doctor to control my blood sugar. My hips began to hurt really badly and it was hard to walk and sleep. Again, my doctor attributed this to carrying twins. I figured that I was tough enough to endure it, since I had already survived my fertility issues.
At 24 weeks, I went on bed rest because I was experiencing increasing contractions. One week after that, I passed a large amount of mucus and some blood while I was using the bathroom. I tried to convince myself that it was nothing serious. I was wrong. Twelve hours later, an ambulance brought me to the UCSF Medical Center where I gave birth to my twin daughters. They each weighed only one pound, seven ounces.
One of my daughters passed away at only 7 days old. It was the most painful moment of my entire life, and for a brief period, I wondered if I would ever be okay again. However, I now had one living daughter to attend to. I spent the next few months focusing my attention on her. She came home when she reached full term, and amazingly, has no lasting health problems from her premature birth.
It would have been easy to let years of fertility issues and the death of my daughter cause permanent emotional damage. However, quite the opposite happened. Since giving birth, I have stopped sweating the small stuff in life; most of the things that I worried about before don't seem to matter anymore. I easily shake off the things that used to bring me down. And the critical voice in my mind that once held me back from really living life to the fullest seems to have vanished. I'm sorry that it took my child's death to cause these changes, but I am grateful that they happened nonetheless. I now have the courage to follow my dreams, and am now halfway done with a degree in photography at age 38.
Most importantly, if it weren't for my fertility issues, my beautiful 2-year-old daughter wouldn't even exist. She is the light of my life, and I would go through all of it again just to have her.
My morning sickness and fatigue were severe, which my doctor said was due to my carrying twins. I was also diagnosed with anemia in my first trimester. At only 13 weeks, I began to have regular contractions as well as some intermittent spotting. My doctor chose to put me on disability for the rest of my pregnancy and told me to take it easy as much as possible.
At 22 weeks pregnant, I developed gestational diabetes and started on a special diet prescribed by my doctor to control my blood sugar. My hips began to hurt really badly and it was hard to walk and sleep. Again, my doctor attributed this to carrying twins. I figured that I was tough enough to endure it, since I had already survived my fertility issues.
At 24 weeks, I went on bed rest because I was experiencing increasing contractions. One week after that, I passed a large amount of mucus and some blood while I was using the bathroom. I tried to convince myself that it was nothing serious. I was wrong. Twelve hours later, an ambulance brought me to the UCSF Medical Center where I gave birth to my twin daughters. They each weighed only one pound, seven ounces.
One of my daughters passed away at only 7 days old. It was the most painful moment of my entire life, and for a brief period, I wondered if I would ever be okay again. However, I now had one living daughter to attend to. I spent the next few months focusing my attention on her. She came home when she reached full term, and amazingly, has no lasting health problems from her premature birth.
It would have been easy to let years of fertility issues and the death of my daughter cause permanent emotional damage. However, quite the opposite happened. Since giving birth, I have stopped sweating the small stuff in life; most of the things that I worried about before don't seem to matter anymore. I easily shake off the things that used to bring me down. And the critical voice in my mind that once held me back from really living life to the fullest seems to have vanished. I'm sorry that it took my child's death to cause these changes, but I am grateful that they happened nonetheless. I now have the courage to follow my dreams, and am now halfway done with a degree in photography at age 38.
Most importantly, if it weren't for my fertility issues, my beautiful 2-year-old daughter wouldn't even exist. She is the light of my life, and I would go through all of it again just to have her.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Natural Pregnancy After Infertility
So, I am truly one of those women now! I am experiencing natural pregnancy after infertility. I didn't think it would ever happen to me, but it did!
My husband and I tried to get pregnant for three full years with no success. After tons of fertility testing, including and HSG and laparoscopy, it was determined that I have one blocked fallopian tube and one tube which was likely narrow and therefore possibly not very functional. The dye spilled very slowly through that tube and it took extra pressure to get spillage.
We had IVF when I was thirty five, and I ended up pregnant with twin girls. Unfortunately, I went into premature labor and gave birth to the twins at only twenty five weeks. One of our daughters didn't make it, and one is still with us and is now two. She spent a full three months in the NICU before she came home. She is doing well now and I would go through that experience all over again just to have her. However, when I was going through it, it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me and there were days that I wondered how I was even still standing.
A full two years have gone by since my daughter's birth and had fully accepted that there was a strong possibility that I would never get pregnant naturally. We talked about dong IVF again "someday" when we could afford it, although being in my late thirties I was coming to grips with the idea of using donor eggs to maximize our chances at IVF.
Several months ago my mind started turning to again trying to conceive naturally, although I swore up and down that I would not lose my mind charting or using OPKs. I would not be anxiously pressuring my husband to have sex if he didn't feel like it just because I was ovulating. I also had reached a point like I mentioned where I was OK with it not working.
So, what I did do was purchase a good infertility hypnosis track for my iPod, a DVD on fertility massage and a three month supply of FertilAid. I have listened to the infertility hypnosis track almost every day for a few months, sometimes letting it auto-repeat as I slept with headphones on. I took FertilAid for only about a month. Seriously, still have a sealed bottle of FertilAid and FertilCM. FertilCM is designed to increase your fertile quality cervical mucus, and I did notice this happen while taking it. I never actually got around to using the DVD on fertility massage.
So, here I am at age thirty eight with a natural pregnancy after infertility! I can't say which product, if any, actually got me pregnant. All I know is that I am. Currently I am about seven weeks along, and have my first prenatal visit next week.
Wish me luck!
My husband and I tried to get pregnant for three full years with no success. After tons of fertility testing, including and HSG and laparoscopy, it was determined that I have one blocked fallopian tube and one tube which was likely narrow and therefore possibly not very functional. The dye spilled very slowly through that tube and it took extra pressure to get spillage.
We had IVF when I was thirty five, and I ended up pregnant with twin girls. Unfortunately, I went into premature labor and gave birth to the twins at only twenty five weeks. One of our daughters didn't make it, and one is still with us and is now two. She spent a full three months in the NICU before she came home. She is doing well now and I would go through that experience all over again just to have her. However, when I was going through it, it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me and there were days that I wondered how I was even still standing.
A full two years have gone by since my daughter's birth and had fully accepted that there was a strong possibility that I would never get pregnant naturally. We talked about dong IVF again "someday" when we could afford it, although being in my late thirties I was coming to grips with the idea of using donor eggs to maximize our chances at IVF.
Several months ago my mind started turning to again trying to conceive naturally, although I swore up and down that I would not lose my mind charting or using OPKs. I would not be anxiously pressuring my husband to have sex if he didn't feel like it just because I was ovulating. I also had reached a point like I mentioned where I was OK with it not working.
So, what I did do was purchase a good infertility hypnosis track for my iPod, a DVD on fertility massage and a three month supply of FertilAid. I have listened to the infertility hypnosis track almost every day for a few months, sometimes letting it auto-repeat as I slept with headphones on. I took FertilAid for only about a month. Seriously, still have a sealed bottle of FertilAid and FertilCM. FertilCM is designed to increase your fertile quality cervical mucus, and I did notice this happen while taking it. I never actually got around to using the DVD on fertility massage.
So, here I am at age thirty eight with a natural pregnancy after infertility! I can't say which product, if any, actually got me pregnant. All I know is that I am. Currently I am about seven weeks along, and have my first prenatal visit next week.
Wish me luck!
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