Along this crazy, rollercoasterish journey, I've had theories up the wazoo. I'm constantly thinking about things, speculating away like mad and most of time I'm probably several miles off the mark.
But, just sometimes, I may be right, and it is so, so very sweet when I find out that it is so. A long time ago, when I first checked my AMH, it was low, resembling that of a woman almost a decade older. But sometimes, I do believe the universe does look out for you, because, the day I had that blood draw, I also threw in a vitamin D test, based on an off-hand remark that the guy who was drawing that blood made. How is that for serendipity? Anyway, my vitamin D was low too, and I decided to look for a connection between the two and I found it, in a study which said the AMH gene can be 'turned on' by vitamin D.
I found that, coincidence or not, AMH went up 4-fold after vitamin D went up 4-fold. A few days ago, I got an email from a grad student who just had her paper accepted- its the first scientific confirmation of what I'd found, that if you are vitamin D low, your AMH is likely to be inaccurately low, and you can get a 'good' reading only after you get your vitamin D deficiency corrected.
The study is here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22508713
I remember how I felt when I was grappling with the possibility that based on my low AMH, I was a contender for diminished ovarian reserve. I think about what might have happened if that technician had not suggested the vitamin D test, or if I had not gone looking for a connection between the two things, and I have to shudder. I don't think anybody else was going to put these 2 things together- I've been educating doctors about this, it has not been in the opposite direction, so really, I fixed myself, and if I had not done it, nobody else would have.
Its National Infertility Awareness week.And I'm going to give myself a hand. And I'm applauding the many, many, many women who have shown up on this blog doing Google searches for 'AMH and Vitamin D'. They fixed their own problem too. Most often, the only person we can rely on to save us is ourselves. And that is not just limited to doing a clever google search- this is for anybody who has pulled themselves up by the bootstraps after their umpteenth BFN, or their miscarriage or their stillbirth. We are all bloody amazing, and we need to take a moment to acknowledge that.
But, just sometimes, I may be right, and it is so, so very sweet when I find out that it is so. A long time ago, when I first checked my AMH, it was low, resembling that of a woman almost a decade older. But sometimes, I do believe the universe does look out for you, because, the day I had that blood draw, I also threw in a vitamin D test, based on an off-hand remark that the guy who was drawing that blood made. How is that for serendipity? Anyway, my vitamin D was low too, and I decided to look for a connection between the two and I found it, in a study which said the AMH gene can be 'turned on' by vitamin D.
I found that, coincidence or not, AMH went up 4-fold after vitamin D went up 4-fold. A few days ago, I got an email from a grad student who just had her paper accepted- its the first scientific confirmation of what I'd found, that if you are vitamin D low, your AMH is likely to be inaccurately low, and you can get a 'good' reading only after you get your vitamin D deficiency corrected.
The study is here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22508713
I remember how I felt when I was grappling with the possibility that based on my low AMH, I was a contender for diminished ovarian reserve. I think about what might have happened if that technician had not suggested the vitamin D test, or if I had not gone looking for a connection between the two things, and I have to shudder. I don't think anybody else was going to put these 2 things together- I've been educating doctors about this, it has not been in the opposite direction, so really, I fixed myself, and if I had not done it, nobody else would have.
Its National Infertility Awareness week.And I'm going to give myself a hand. And I'm applauding the many, many, many women who have shown up on this blog doing Google searches for 'AMH and Vitamin D'. They fixed their own problem too. Most often, the only person we can rely on to save us is ourselves. And that is not just limited to doing a clever google search- this is for anybody who has pulled themselves up by the bootstraps after their umpteenth BFN, or their miscarriage or their stillbirth. We are all bloody amazing, and we need to take a moment to acknowledge that.
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