SpermCheck has arrived and is filling the shelves of your neighborhood drug store as I write. \u00a0What is it? \u00a0It’s an over-the-counter FDA approved home male fertility test. \u00a0What does it do? \u00a0It tells you whether you have more than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen.<\/p>\n
That’s a good thing, right? \u00a0Generally, yes. \u00a0It’s good to know whether you have a reasonable amount of sperm, which SpermCheck says is\u00a020 million per milliliter.\u00a0 The problem is in the yes-or-no nature of the test and in picking the number 20 million. \u00a0As I described in this post<\/a>, you can get a woman pregnant with sperm counts less than 20 million per\u00a0milliliter and have problems with more than that amount. \u00a0The numbers of swimmers don’t tell the whole story.<\/p>\n So, will SpermCheck help you? \u00a0For most men, probably. \u00a0Having a positive or negative result will point them in the right direction. \u00a0But for the handful of guys that get the OK from the test when they have a problem or for those that get the thumbs-down from the test that are fertile, it’s not telling the whole story. \u00a0According to the manufacturer, the guys that are getting it wrong is about one in twenty. \u00a0If you’re OK with that, great–if not, you may want to see a doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SpermCheck has arrived and is filling the shelves of your neighborhood drug store as I write. \u00a0What is it? \u00a0It’s an over-the-counter FDA approved home male fertility test. \u00a0What does it do? \u00a0It tells you whether you have more than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen. That’s a good thing, right? \u00a0Generally, yes. \u00a0It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,108],"tags":[166,165,144,5,40,164],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertility","category-sperm-2","tag-home-testing","tag-kit","tag-screening","tag-semen-analysis","tag-sperm-count","tag-spermcheck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}