Ask Our Doctors – Archive
Our Medical Directors are outstanding physicians that you will find to be very personable and compassionate, who take care to ensure that you have the most cutting-edge fertility treatments at your disposal. This is your outlet to ask your questions to the doctors.
Hi Dr. Sher,
How much co enzyme q 10 should I be taking? (Age 37 low ovarian reserve). I’m confused by the supplements. Should I buy co enzyme q 10 or ubiquinol?
Thank you.
400 of CoQ-10 daily will be fine!
Geoff Sher
Dr Sher-
My prolactin levels are slightly elevated but my current doctor thinks we should not treat it because of an also elevated FSH. He thinks if we treat the prolactin my FSH will rise, too, and I’ll be in worse shape. But we’ve been trying for more than a year, and this is the first clue we’ve gotten that explains some issues I have. I also have galactorrhea. What do you suggest? Will lowering my prolactin raise my FSH and make things worse? All I’ve read implies that higher prolactin can be a real hinderance to conceiving, maybe even more so than elevated FSH ( it’s at 12.) We aren’t interested in IVF at this time. We did conceive our son naturally 3 years ago. Simply need a second opinion. My guy is saying to treat the prolactin, as it’s he one thing we haven’t tried. We’ve been doing iui, injectables and a trigger, as I often suffer from LUFS as well. We did so one failed IVF cycle, that never got to transfer.
I agree that treating a slightly elevated prolactin is NOT necessary. But I respectfully, in my opinion, treating an elevated prolactin will have absolutely no negative effect on your FSH or ovarian reserve.
Geoff Sher
Hi Dr. Sher, thank you for this forum. I just don’t even know where to begin. I have one daughter who is almost three years old, but recently I have been having chemical pregnancies. I have had all of the day three testing done, a saline sonohystogram w/bubble, and everything has came back normal. I started seeing a specialist and they said I need to do an HSG with dye, is this even necessary, wouldn’t any issues already be seen on the saline sono? And other than some venous reflux I have good health. What do you think I should explore, what tests should I do and which ones should I avoid. This is so sad to lose a pregnancy everything, it never fails to upset me!
Hello Doctor
We have 2 pgd tested embryos. We just had a failed FET using a gestational carrier her lining was 10. She got faint positives on hpt tests starting at day 7 however her beta was 4 on day 12. We are devastated. We have 1 frozen embryo left and are terrified to transfer it. Any thoughts on what could have happened? Our carrier was on pio shots and estrogen. We are waiting to meet with the RE. Thank you
I meant to say too the embryos had pgs testing
Hi, Dr. Sher. I had a lining check for FEt on day 7 of estrogen and my lining was 9.8 triple striped. On day 9 of estrogen is appeared as though my lining had begun to break down. Is this possible? Why does this happen? I had a hysteroscopy three weeks ago, can that have caused damage to my lining?
I frankly do not believe that your lining was breaking down and that without bleeding anyone can with confidence arrive at such a conclusion from US examinations.
Geoff Sher