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The Power of Prediction
How Ovulation Tests Can Help You Conceive
By Gwen Morrison
"Most of my patients do report using ovulation kits before coming to see me," Dr. Morris says. "In order to decrease the costs of monitoring, some of my patients will use ovulation kits to predict ovulation for the purpose of timing an intrauterine insemination."
What's the right choice? If your cycle is generally regular, Dr. Morris suggests that women use the least expensive urinary kit that they can find. If a woman's cycles are irregular or long, Dr. Morris suggests the saliva tester would be a better choice. "You can test for 40 to 50 days on a single kit," he says. "Combination urinary kits ... add nothing to the chances for achieving pregnancy and are dramatically more expensive."
Dr. Lawrence Layman, section chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility genetics at the Medical College of Georgia, recommends urinary ovulation monitoring for his patients.
"We use them for women who are taking ovulation-inducing agents to predict if ovulation will occur," he says. "This can determine if the dose of medicine they are given is likely to work. It can also be used in women who are not taking ovulation medication. These tests are useful for several reasons: They can indicate to the patient to time intercourse; they can be used to determine if the medication is likely to be effective; and they can be used to time treatments, such as intrauterine insemination."
Dr. Layman points out that the kits do not confirm ovulation but rather predict if it is likely to occur. A blood test is needed to confirm ovulation.
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