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Your blood work values should have come with reference ranges as what levels are normal really vary from lab to lab. Does your number fall outside of your lab's reference range?

I would email or call and ask about it...I have found that what you read on the internet can only give you an idea, but not the whole story. Each doc and each personal history is different.

@oskarsmommy: Is the lab measurement for your AMH in pmol/L or ng/ml?

If it's in ng/mL, then that seems on track for your age.

@Shantuck: My AMH was .66 at age 35. I never ended up going to an RE because I happened to get pregnant before the appointment, but that pregnancy resulted in the loss of our sweet boy at 18 weeks. My OB said the low AMH alone didn't really concern her, but now I'm wondering if my repeat losses (including our TFMR) has something to do with it. Did you have high FSH too, or just low AMH?

@Shantuck: Thanks for responding. My OB explained it the same way to me. My FSH was low, like 5 or something. Although of course our most recent loss was not caused by a "bad egg"...geneticist and OB and MFM have all told us that it was just horrible, awful luck. It makes me feel like if we ever rolled the dice again, it would just lead to more heartbreak for us.

@oskarsmommy: thanks, i appreciate it. It's been really rough. Some days it seems a little better, but overall, I've been just....sad. I'm here only sporadically, looking at a lot of the site is just so overwhelming. I hope you get some answers soon and that healthy baby comes along too.

@Shantuck: I agree, the "shitty luck" theory isn't exactly reassuring. I mean, it totally could have been caused by a folate deficiency or some environmental factor that we just don't know about, but that all seems unlikely since I didn't do anything differently with this pregnancy than my others. They didn't recommend further genetic testing on me, since it was caused by a neural tube defect. There's one school of thought that MTHFR mutation could be a cause of losses but the recommendation for me would be to take 4mg of folic acid prior to TTC, if we ever choose to again. I guess that's the same recommendation for MTHFR. Since I've had one child with open neural tube defect, I'm at slightly greater risk of it happening again - 3% chance. But by taking the high dose of folic acid, my risk is reduced back down to 1%. I've done a lot of googling and lurking on online boards to find someone who has had two children with neural tube defects. It seems that those whose children have had spina bifida versus other open neural tube defects (ancephaly, for example) haven't gone on to have other issues. My OB set up an appointment with MFM/geneticst for us to recap. I guess I'm not concerned about an open neural tube defect, but another loss because of one a trisomy, triploidy, turners, etc. Spending so much time on the internet, I now know of everything that can go wrong.

@oskarsmommy: I've read that, but geneticist basically said because I have 2 healthy kids....having inability to absorb folate seems pretty unlikely. But I just don't know. I'll follow up with her / MFM though. I haven't tested for MTHFR before.

@oskarsmommy: like some of the other ladies here, I had some bad numbers. My FSH at 13 and my AMH was atrocious at 0.3. I was doing a bunch of testing for recurrent losses. Our plan of attack was to start Femera in March but I found out I was pregnant in February. Good luck to you, I hope Clomid is all you need!