Comments on has anyone tried a home fertility test for men and is it accurate?
June 10, 2011
Vertigo Girl @
3:35 pm
Hi, yes we used one and found it extremely accurate, although that doesn’t mean that it always will be. The results for my boyfriend were uncanningly similar to the results of his sperm count that we got from a clinic when he went to do a semen analysis.
~Katie~ @
4:15 pm
The thing with most of them will only show if he has a minimum of 20/21 million/ml. If it’s lower than that (which can still produce a pg!), it won’t show. I’ve also heard from people that it’s hard to interrupt. If you don’t want to do an actual Semen Analysis, then try home scoping. Buy a microscope from Toys R US (not the cheapest one, the others work though!), and get a sample from your dh (put it in a clean container, petri dish, etc just no dixie cup! Let it sit for about 30 min. Then add one drop to a slide, put on a cover. Then view it under 100x magnification. It should look like pepper flakes. Then switch to 400x and you will see more! Take the number you see per viewing field and divide by 2 (if you count 40 divide by 2 is 20, so your count would be 20 million/ml which is considered the normal for fertility). Good luck!
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Comments on has anyone tried a home fertility test for men and is it accurate?
Hi, yes we used one and found it extremely accurate, although that doesn’t mean that it always will be. The results for my boyfriend were uncanningly similar to the results of his sperm count that we got from a clinic when he went to do a semen analysis.
The thing with most of them will only show if he has a minimum of 20/21 million/ml. If it’s lower than that (which can still produce a pg!), it won’t show. I’ve also heard from people that it’s hard to interrupt. If you don’t want to do an actual Semen Analysis, then try home scoping. Buy a microscope from Toys R US (not the cheapest one, the others work though!), and get a sample from your dh (put it in a clean container, petri dish, etc just no dixie cup! Let it sit for about 30 min. Then add one drop to a slide, put on a cover. Then view it under 100x magnification. It should look like pepper flakes. Then switch to 400x and you will see more! Take the number you see per viewing field and divide by 2 (if you count 40 divide by 2 is 20, so your count would be 20 million/ml which is considered the normal for fertility). Good luck!