{"id":401,"date":"2021-07-01T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2021-06-27T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:16:15","slug":"when-a-guy-needs-to-come-to-the-gyno-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"When a Guy Needs To Come to the Gyno Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generally we head off to the gyno on our own, but there are sometimes that you definitely want your guy to be part of the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Pregnancy planning, we want both partners to be healthy, and gynos are trained to consider male factor issues in conception and pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. If you have an STD or suspect an STD you both need facts about reasonable testing plans and in some cases you both to be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Sex issues, it takes two to tango, and yes, there are more combos than that but if a couple is having issues, then the couple needs to discuss. And this could extend to all the sex issues from libido to pain complaints<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. If you have a chronic vaginal infection then maybe your gyno wants to help figure out if you are getting chronically re-infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Infertility, we want to get a sperm count and semen analysis right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally we head off to the gyno on our own, but there are sometimes that you definitely want your guy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guys-guide-to-gyno","category-our-gyno-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}