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Fertility Testing for Women
Ovarian Testing > Home Tests for Ovarian Reserve
There is now a commercially available kit which allows a woman to measure her FSH level at home. The kit measures the amount of FSH in the urine and can reliably tell her if her FSH is > 10 mIU/ml.
We do not recommend this test. First, the test is fairly expensive. Second, and more importantly, this is only helpful if it is abnormal.
You should not be reassured by a normal result, and here's why:
Because FSH levels are affected by estrogen levels, and because this urine test does not assess estrogen levels, an individual has no way of knowing whether a normal test is valid (see section on “Day 3 FSH and Estrogen Levels”).
See Fertility Testing for Women for other test information.