Dietary Investigations

The Body Mass Index (BMI) can indicate whether your weight may be impacting on your reproductive cycle. If you are overweight or underweight your fertility can be affected. The answers you give allow the Diagnostic Program to calculate your BMI and indicate the potential impact this will have on your fertility.

Smoking, drugs and alcohol can all have a negative impact on your fertility. In small doses the impact can be minimal but above a certain level, your fertility can be severely affected. The answers you enter here will allow the Diagnostic Program to calculate any possible effect these agents may have on your fertility.

Normally, ovulation will occur 12 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation. Shortened cycles may not allow an egg to be produced and released. Lengthened or erratic cycles may indicate other clinical conditions or the onset of menopause. No cycle may indicate the menopause or some other ovulation problems. The Diagnostic Program considers this in evaluating your fertility status.

Conception will not occur without the presence of adequate, normal healthy sperm present in the female reproductive tract at the time of ovulation. In order to determine whether this may be a contribution to the possibility of infertility, the answers to the question in this screen will allow the Diagnostic Program to calculate if this is a problem, and whether it can be easily overcome.

A man who has had a vasectomy (surgical removal or sealing the vas deferens which carries sperm from the testes) is sterile. Even if he has had a reversal, fertility may still be adversely affected. The answers to the questions in this screen allow the Diagnostic Program to assess the impact of a vasectomy or reversal on future fertility.