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6 Tips to Protect Your Mental Health When You’re Sick It’s normal to feel anxiety, worry and grief any time you’re diagnosed with a medical condition – and that’s certainly true if you test positive for COVID-19, or are presumed to be positive. If your symptoms aren’t severe and you can recover at home, this will involve home isolation until it’s safe for you to be near others without potentially spreading the infection. Isolation protects others from getting sick – but for the person who is sick, it might seem like one more thing on top of an already stressful situation. “Stress negatively affects your body, so while you rest up and work on recovering physically, it’s important to keep your mental health in check, too,” says psychiatrist Amit Anand, MD. Here are some ways to keep anxiety and sadness from the creeping in while you recover from COVID-19: Focus on what you can know and controlYou may not know how you got infected, or how long it will take to recover. Instead of focusing your energy on regret or what ifs, double down on what you can do. Your job now is to take care of yourself, get well and avoid spreading the infection to anyone else. Engage your support networkAsk loved ones to check in on you regularly via phone, email or video chat. Talk to them about how you’re feeling. If you’re worried about taking care of children, pets or household duties while you’re sick, identify family members, friends or members of your community who aren’t part of a high-risk population and may be able to help.

Thyroid Test The thyroid function test is a series of blood tests done in order to examine the proper working mechanism of the thyroid glands. Here we have all types of thyroid tests. TSH TSH test helps to diagnose a condition called subclinical hypothyroidism which doesn’t pose any outward signs and symptoms. T3 The T3 test is done to determine if the thyroid produces too much thyroid hormone or pituitary gland produces doesn’t produce a normal number of pituitary hormones. T4 T4 test measures the blood level of the hormone T4 known as thyroxine and also helps control metabolism and growth.  

What is AMH? How can AMH hormone levels be a fertility test? Since AMH is produced only in small ovarian follicles, blood levels of this substance have been used to attempt to measure the size of the pool of growing follicles in women. With increasing female age, the size of their pool of remaining microscopic follicles decreases. Likewise, their blood AMH levels and the number of ovarian antral follicles visible on ultrasound also decrease. Women with many small follicles, such as those with polycystic ovaries have high AMH hormone values, and women that have few remaining follicles and those that are close to menopause have low anti-mullerian hormone levels. AMH levels and pregnancy chances with in vitro fertilization Women with higher AMH values will tend to have better responses to ovarian stimulation for IVF and have more eggs retrieved. In general, having more eggs with IVF gives a higher success rate. AMH levels probably do not tell us much about egg quality, but having more eggs at the IVF egg retrieval gives us more to work with – so we are more likely to have at least one high-quality embryo available for transfer back to the uterus.