Notes for infertility patient visits

  Psychological preparation before consultation Therefore, before examining the cause of infertility, both spouses should understand that since the female partner has more tests than the male partner and there are some invasive tests, the male partner should be examined first and the female partner should start the examination at the same time, and the cause of infertility should not be attributed to the female partner. Once the cause is clarified, the cause should be actively treated and the non-diseased party should cooperate with the treatment. Because pregnancy is a matter for both men and women, leaving one partner to cooperate makes pregnancy difficult.  Due to the complexity of the causes of infertility and the fact that many tests are time-sensitive, it often takes several menstrual cycles and long multifaceted examinations before the basic examination is clear. It is necessary to be patient and cooperate with the doctor, and accept the doctor’s guidance and treatment seriously. Some patients may need assisted reproductive technology to solve their problems because the exact cause is still difficult to find despite multiple tests.  Where to go for consultation Female consultation: Go to the obstetrics and gynecology department, or if the hospital has a gynecology clinic, go to the gynecology department, because many infertility patients are also patients with gynecological diseases and gynecological endocrine diseases. Nowadays, many hospitals have opened specialist infertility clinics, others have opened specialist clinics for endocrine diseases and infertility, and some hospitals have set up special medical units such as reproductive units or fertility centers.  The male partner should be examined by both men and women for infertility symptoms, and because the male partner’s examination is simpler than the female partner’s, the male partner should go to the hospital first. The male partner should go to the urology department (some hospitals have a special male department or reproductive male department) for examination.  In general, you should see the obstetrics and gynecology department and urology department of a regular hospital. If the hospital has a specialist clinic, try to choose the specialist clinic instead of looking for a doctor at random or changing the doctor frequently, so as to avoid taking too many detours and spending money on physical and mental damage.  Since the causes of infertility are complex, please make sure to bring some relevant test results, past medical records and hospital records when you visit the clinic. It is usually difficult to explain the details of these documents.  The doctor will want to know all your relevant medical history and will have a lot of questions to ask you. When faced with a doctor’s inquiry, be careful to first understand the question that is being asked of you because the doctor needs it. All you have to do is to answer the questions clearly and understandably and never assume that the doctor is asking too many questions and giving the doctor a false medical history. You are the one who comes to the doctor, and any communication between the doctor and you is meant to help you. Providing a false medical history or hiding it will ultimately be detrimental to treatment.  To save your time, please think about your basic medical condition when you are waiting to be seen, so that you don’t say anything that will delay everyone’s time and the doctor’s ability to arrange tests for you.  About the following aspects to provide the doctor: 1, menstruation: whether regular, whether dysmenorrhea, how the menstrual cycle, how much menstruation, irregular to say how the last few periods, the last menstrual date (to the solar date ah) and other content.  2. Fertility history: How many times did you get pregnant? How many times did you give birth? How many miscarriages? Has there been an ectopic pregnancy? The time and details of each pregnancy.  3, general pre-pregnancy tests: whether they have been done, what items have been checked? Don’t tell me to draw blood, check the urine and other vague content.  4.Are there any other diseases? Is it cured? Does it affect pregnancy? Are you taking any medication now?  5. Infertility tests: what have you checked and what are the results? Have you brought the checklist? Have you monitored ovulation and whether there is ovulation? Have the fallopian tubes been checked and are they open?  6.What treatment have you done for infertility? What is the effect? What kind of medication was used to promote ovulation?  7.Is your body healthy? What diseases have you had? Are you under treatment? Does it affect pregnancy?