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Saliva-based fertility testing

post #1 of 5
3/21/03 at 1:54am
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If you're trying to get pregnant, there's a better way of determining when you're ovulating than the old temperature chart or a trip to the doctor's office for a urine test. Exploiting the fact that a woman's saliva forms a crystal-like pattern when she's ovulating, new fertility kits -- which include microscopes -- are coming onto the market to make the job of deciding when to get horizontal easier. Among the home tests at your local drugstore or K-Mart, Target and other retailers (and online) are OvulationScope, The Donna, MaybeMOM, Ovulite and the TCI-31 Ovulation Tester. Here's a look at the tests, and the controversies swirling around them, on the Boston Globe:

Saliva-based fertility testing
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post #2 of 5
11/26/03 at 11:55am
I was going to buy one but my DH talked with a coworker about these things and they have been using a ovulation kit for a year and a half and have not gotten pregant. According to DH she and her husband have been checked and things are okay.
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post #3 of 5
1/25/05 at 5:13pm
I used one of those for a year and every time I thought I was ovulating I wasn't based on when af showed up. They can give you false results very easily. I'm starting clomid now. Heck with the spitty thing!
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post #4 of 5
1/25/05 at 6:21pm
I used one too and it never worked, though I wasn't ovulating. However, when I started taking the Clomid and I was obviously ovulating it still didn't work. So, that is just my experience, maybe it might work for you.
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post #5 of 5
11/14/05 at 6:51pm
I tried to click that article but couldn't get it to pull up correctly

The saliva tests will not work for women who have recently come off of BC pills, women who are breastfeeding or have recently stopped, women with hormonal related problems, women with PCOS or women with kidney problems. At least that has been my experience.

There is a learning curve to working with it and where ever you purchase it from should be able to help walk you through it while you learn the proper way to use it. Too much saliva isn't good, too little isn't good either...PLUS what most people don't know is that your first ferning will appear on the outer edges of the test slide (mush in the way that frost develops on a window pane).

I do think they are well worth the money as long as you fit into the category of women as I described above.
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