A complete diagnosis package for both partners: full hormone panel, ultrasound and a proper WHO-criteria semen analysis, with every result explained in plain language within 48 hours, inside Kamiloglu Hospital, Kyrenia, from €300.
A fertility assessment is a structured set of tests that answers one question most couples have been asking themselves for months, sometimes years: why has pregnancy not happened yet? Instead of guessing, googling symptoms at midnight or simply "trying for another year", the assessment measures the things that actually determine your chances: how many eggs remain in the ovaries and how the cycle's hormones behave, whether the fallopian tubes are open and the uterus is ready to carry a pregnancy, and, just as importantly, how many sperm there are, how well they move and how healthy they are. Each test answers a specific question, and together they build a complete picture of you as a couple.
At our clinic the entire core assessment, blood panel, ultrasound and semen analysis, is completed in a single morning at Kamiloglu Hospital, Kyrenia Medical Center, with results ready within 48 hours. Because we work inside a full hospital in Cyprus rather than a standalone clinic, every blood sample is processed in the hospital's own laboratory and any additional procedure, such as an HSG or a hysteroscopy, can be arranged on site within a day, usually without a second trip. You then sit down with a fertility specialist (not a salesperson) who goes through every number with you in plain language: what it means, what is normal for your age, and what it changes about your options.
There is one more thing that makes our assessment different, and we are open about why. Most fertility clinics treat diagnosis as a formality on the way to selling an IVF cycle, and most test only the woman in any depth. We do the opposite on both counts. The male panel gets equal weight, because male factor contributes to roughly half of all fertility problems, and the consultation at the end is open-ended: if the right answer for you is timed intercourse, lifestyle changes, IUI or simply more time, that is exactly what we will tell you. The written plan you leave with includes exact pricing for any recommended treatment, and it is yours to take anywhere, including back to your GP or another clinic.
A good diagnosis often saves more money than any discount ever could. Couples regularly arrive having spent thousands on cycles that were never likely to work because a basic problem, a blocked tube, an untreated thyroid, severe sperm DNA damage, was never looked for. Two days of testing, done properly, prevents exactly that.
In simple terms: in one or two days we measure everything that determines your fertility as a couple, eggs, hormones, tubes, uterus and sperm, explain every result in language you actually understand, and give you a written, honestly priced plan for what to do next, even when that plan is not IVF.
A complete fertility assessment is the right starting point if any of the following describes you:
Single women and same-sex couples are equally welcome: the assessment is simply adjusted to the tests that apply to you, and under current regulations in Cyprus both can be treated here if treatment is the eventual next step.
No obligation. Our coordinator responds within 2 hours during working hours.
No mystery abbreviations on an invoice. Here is each test in the female panel, what it measures and the question it answers.
AMH (anti-Müllerian hormone) is produced by the small follicles in your ovaries, so the level in your blood reflects roughly how many eggs remain, your "ovarian reserve". It is the single most useful planning number in fertility medicine: it predicts how your ovaries would respond to IVF stimulation and how urgent decisions like egg freezing are. Two things it does not measure: egg quality (which depends mainly on age) and your chance of conceiving naturally this month. AMH can be taken on any day of your cycle, which is why it is the one fertility blood test you may already have had at home.
These three hormones run your monthly cycle, and we measure them on day 2 or 3 of your period, when the levels are most informative. FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone) is the signal your brain sends to the ovaries to grow an egg: a high FSH means the brain is "shouting" because the ovaries are responding less well, an early sign of declining reserve. LH (luteinising hormone) triggers ovulation, and an unusual FSH-to-LH ratio is a classic clue for PCOS. Oestradiol (E2, the main oestrogen) is checked alongside, because a high early-cycle oestradiol can mask a high FSH and make a result look falsely reassuring. Read together, the three tell us whether you are ovulating and how hard your body is working to do it.
Two hormones with nothing to do with the ovaries can quietly stop you conceiving. TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) screens your thyroid: even a mildly underactive thyroid can disturb ovulation and raise miscarriage risk, and it is fixed with a simple daily tablet. Prolactin is the milk-production hormone; when elevated outside pregnancy (often from stress, certain medications or a small benign growth on the pituitary gland) it suppresses ovulation entirely. Both are cheap to test, commonly abnormal and very treatable, which is exactly why they belong in a first-line panel rather than being discovered after a failed IVF cycle.
A transvaginal ultrasound performed by the fertility specialist, ideally early in your cycle. The doctor counts the antral follicles, the small fluid-filled sacs (2–10 mm) visible in each ovary, each of which contains an immature egg. The count is a direct, visual measure of ovarian reserve that cross-checks your AMH: when the two agree, we can be confident in the picture. The same scan also examines the uterus for fibroids and polyps, measures the lining, and looks for the multiple small follicles typical of PCOS or the cysts associated with endometriosis. Ten minutes, mildly awkward, and informative.
An HSG (hysterosalpingogram) answers a question no blood test can: are your fallopian tubes open? A small amount of contrast dye is passed through the cervix while X-ray images track it; if the dye spills freely from the ends of both tubes, they are open. Blocked tubes are one of the most common findings in couples with otherwise normal results, especially after pelvic infection, surgery or an ectopic pregnancy, and they change the plan completely, because no amount of timed intercourse or IUI can work around a blocked tube. The test takes about 15 minutes and can cause short-lived period-like cramping; we offer pain relief beforehand and perform it within Kamiloglu Hospital's imaging department.
A hysteroscopy passes a very thin camera through the cervix to inspect the inside of the uterus directly, the room the embryo has to live in. It is not a routine first test; we recommend it when the ultrasound suggests a polyp, fibroid, scar tissue or an unusually shaped cavity, or after recurrent miscarriage or repeated failed embryo transfers elsewhere. Its great advantage is that small problems can often be treated during the same procedure: a polyp seen is a polyp removed. At our clinic it is performed in a hospital procedure room with sedation available, so it can be entirely painless.
Male factor contributes to around half of all fertility problems, yet most clinic websites barely mention it. We test the male partner with the same seriousness as the female partner, every time.
A proper semen analysis, performed to current WHO laboratory standards after 2–5 days of abstinence, measures three things that matter most:
The analysis also records volume, pH, white blood cells (a sign of infection) and agglutination (sperm sticking together). One important honesty note: sperm results vary naturally from sample to sample, so if the first analysis is abnormal we recommend repeating it after 4–6 weeks before drawing firm conclusions, not booking treatment off a single bad day.
A standard semen analysis looks at sperm from the outside; DNA fragmentation testing looks at the genetic cargo inside. It measures the percentage of sperm carrying broken DNA strands, damage that is invisible under a normal microscope and that a sperm can carry while still swimming perfectly well. High fragmentation is linked to longer time to conceive, repeated IVF failure and recurrent miscarriage, and it is more common with age, smoking, heat exposure, varicocele and long abstinence. We recommend it when there has been recurrent miscarriage or failed cycles, or when the standard analysis is borderline. The reason it matters: high fragmentation is often improvable within about three months through lifestyle changes, antioxidants or treating a varicocele, because sperm are continuously produced on a roughly 70–90 day cycle. That is a fixable finding, not a verdict.
When the semen analysis shows a very low count or no sperm at all, a blood panel (FSH, LH, testosterone, and prolactin or oestradiol where relevant) tells us why. High FSH suggests the testes themselves are underproducing; low FSH and LH suggest the signal from the brain is missing, a situation that can sometimes be treated with medication so that sperm production restarts. Low testosterone affects libido, energy and sperm output, but here is a counterintuitive fact worth knowing: taking testosterone supplements switches natural sperm production off, and we see men every year who have unknowingly made themselves infertile with gym-prescribed testosterone. The panel is a simple morning blood draw, done at the same time as your partner's.
Browse the websites of fertility clinics in Cyprus and beyond and you will notice something: page after page about the female partner, and a single line, if that, about the man. The result is predictable and sad. Women go through months of testing and sometimes whole treatment cycles while a significant male factor sits undiagnosed, because nobody looked beyond a cursory sperm count.
In our assessment the male panel is not an optional extra: a full WHO-criteria semen analysis is included in the core package, the specialist reviews the male results with the same attention as the female results, and where the findings point to DNA fragmentation testing or a hormone panel we will say so, with the price stated upfront. Half of the diagnosis deserves half of the attention.
Send us a short history and any results you already have. Our specialist will tell you, free and without obligation, which tests would add information in your case, and which would be a waste of your money.
Get Free Testing AdviceFrom first message to written plan: exactly what happens, in what order, and how long each step takes.
Before you travel
You contact us by form or WhatsApp and have a free call with our coordinator and, where useful, the specialist. We take your history, review any results you already have (recent tests are accepted, nothing is repeated unnecessarily) and schedule your visit, ideally so that day 2 or 3 of the female partner's cycle falls on the testing morning. The male partner is asked to keep 2–5 days of abstinence before the semen analysis. You receive a written checklist of what to bring.
What you experience: a 20–30 minute call and a clear plan, no medical procedures yet. Duration: arranged 1–4 weeks before travel.
Day 1 · Morning
You arrive at Kamiloglu Hospital in the morning (fasting is not usually required, your checklist will confirm). The female panel, AMH, FSH, LH, oestradiol, TSH and prolactin, is drawn in one sitting, and the male hormone panel is taken at the same time if indicated. Samples go straight to the hospital's own laboratory in the same building, which is one reason we can promise results within 48 hours rather than posting samples to an external lab.
What you experience: a standard blood draw, a few minutes each. Duration: 15–20 minutes including paperwork.
Day 1 · Morning
Straight after the blood draw, the fertility specialist performs the transvaginal ultrasound personally: counting the antral follicles in each ovary, measuring the uterine lining, and checking the uterus and ovaries for fibroids, polyps, cysts and the signs of PCOS or endometriosis. You see the screen and the doctor talks you through what they are looking at as they go, most patients tell us it is the first scan anyone has ever narrated for them.
What you experience: mildly awkward, not painful; you are covered throughout. Duration: about 10–15 minutes.
Day 1 · Morning
While the ultrasound is under way, the male partner provides his sample in a private, comfortable room next to the laboratory, so the sample is analysed fresh, within the hour, which matters for accurate motility readings. The andrology lab assesses count, motility and morphology to current WHO standards, plus volume, pH and signs of infection. If sperm DNA fragmentation testing has been agreed, it is run from the same sample, no second appointment needed.
What you experience: privacy and zero discomfort; the awkwardness is smaller than every man fears. Duration: 20–30 minutes. By late morning, both partners are free for lunch in Kyrenia harbour.
Day 1–2 · If indicated
If your history or the morning's scan suggests it, an HSG (tubal dye test) or hysteroscopy is scheduled, usually for the same afternoon or the following morning. Because everything happens inside one hospital, there is no referral letter, no second facility and no weeks-long waiting list: the imaging department and procedure rooms are a corridor away. These tests are only recommended when they will change the plan, and the price is confirmed with you before anything is booked.
What you experience: HSG causes brief period-like cramps; hysteroscopy can be done with sedation so you feel nothing. Duration: 15–30 minutes per procedure.
Within 48 hours
Your complete results, hormone panel, ultrasound report, semen analysis and any additional tests, are compiled within 48 hours of your testing morning. You receive the full laboratory reports, not a summary: every value with its reference range, in English, yours to keep and to share with any doctor anywhere. Your coordinator confirms your consultation time as soon as everything is in.
What you experience: a day or two of waiting, usually spent by the pool or exploring Kyrenia. Duration: within 48 hours, often sooner.
Day 2–3
You sit down with the fertility specialist, both partners together, and go through every result line by line: what each number means, what is normal for your age, and how the findings fit together as one picture. This is a working consultation, not a sales pitch: you are encouraged to ask everything, and the doctor will say "this is fine" exactly as readily as "this needs attention". If you have already flown home, the consultation happens by video at a time that suits you.
What you experience: for most couples, the first time anyone has explained their fertility properly. Duration: 45–60 minutes, unhurried.
Day 2–3
You leave with a written, personalised plan: the diagnosis in plain language, the recommended next step (which may be a treatment, a lifestyle change, or simply continuing to try with better timing), realistic expectations for your specific situation, and, if treatment is recommended, the exact all-inclusive price, not a "from" figure that doubles later. The plan is yours unconditionally: take it to your GP, compare it with other clinics, or sleep on it for six months. There is no expiry-date discount and no follow-up pressure.
What you experience: clarity, finally. Duration: provided at or immediately after the consultation.
Ongoing
Your coordinator remains available on WhatsApp after you fly home: for questions that occur to you a week later, for sharing the results with your home doctor, or for arranging a repeat test (such as a second semen analysis after 4–6 weeks) at the right interval. If and when you decide on a next step, your file is already complete, so treatment can be planned without starting from zero. You can read more about how remote support works on our How It Works page.
What you experience: not being forgotten the moment you pay the invoice. Duration: as long as you need.
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Plan My Testing VisitFertility results are routinely over-dramatised, by forums, by headlines and sometimes by clinics with a treatment to sell. Here is the calmer truth.
AMH declines naturally with age, so the same number can be reassuring at one age and a prompt for action at another. As a rough guide (laboratory ranges vary, and your own report's reference range takes precedence): typical AMH is around 2.0–6.8 ng/ml in your 20s, around 1.5–4.0 ng/ml at 30–35, around 1.0–3.0 ng/ml at 35–40, and often below 1.0 ng/ml after 40. An AMH of 1.2 at 42 is unremarkable; the same 1.2 at 28 deserves a conversation about whether to act sooner rather than later.
And what "low" actually means: fewer eggs remaining and likely fewer eggs collected per IVF cycle. It does not mean your eggs are poor quality (age governs that far more), it does not mean you cannot conceive naturally this month, and it is not a deadline printed in your blood. Women with low AMH conceive, naturally and through IVF, every single day. What low AMH really tells you is that time is the variable to respect.
For orientation: day 2–3 FSH below about 10 IU/L is generally reassuring, 10–15 suggests reduced reserve, and persistently above 15–20 suggests the ovaries are responding poorly. TSH between roughly 0.4 and 4.0 mIU/L is the standard range, though many fertility specialists prefer below 2.5 when you are trying to conceive. Prolactin should normally be under about 25 ng/ml outside pregnancy. On the male side, the WHO reference values are around 16 million sperm per ml, roughly 30% progressive motility and 4% normal morphology.
Two caveats that matter more than the numbers. First, reference values are population statistics, not pass marks: the WHO semen values, for instance, describe the lower 5th percentile of men who recently fathered children, meaning plenty of fathers scored below them. Second, single results mislead: hormones fluctuate, sperm vary week to week, and a stressful morning can move prolactin. We interpret patterns, repeat what is doubtful, and never build a treatment plan on one outlying value.
No single test result, not AMH, not FSH, not morphology, decides whether you will become parents. Fertility is the product of many factors interacting, which is why we always interpret your results as one combined picture and as a couple, never as isolated red flags. The purpose of testing is not to label you "fertile" or "infertile"; it is to find the obstacles that can be removed, the time pressures that should be respected, and the treatment, if any, with the best realistic chance for the two of you. Anyone who tells you a diagnosis from a single number is doing arithmetic, not medicine.
Fertility is a shared system: roughly a third of cases are mainly female factor, a third mainly male factor, and a third a combination or unexplained. Testing one partner first and the other "if needed" is how couples lose six months to a diagnosis that takes two days when done properly. It can also be quietly corrosive: when only one partner is examined, that partner tends to carry the blame, often wrongly.
So our package is built for two from the start. Both panels run on the same morning, the results arrive together, and you hear them together, in one consultation where the specialist explains how the two sets of findings interact.
The interaction is the point. A mild male factor plus a mild female factor often explains what neither would alone. Borderline motility may not matter at 28 with open tubes and may matter a great deal at 39 with a low follicle count. The right plan, whether that is more time, IUI or IVF, can only come from the combined picture.
If you are single, or your partner cannot travel, the assessment adapts: we test whoever is in the room and tell you honestly what can and cannot be concluded without the other half of the picture.
An IVF clinic telling you not to rush into IVF? Yes. A meaningful share of the couples we test do not need it, and we tell them so. Here is what we recommend instead, when the results support it.
If both partners' results are normal and you are relatively young, the most effective "treatment" can be precision: identifying the fertile window properly (the five days before and the day of ovulation) using cycle tracking or ovulation kits, sometimes supported by a simple tablet that ensures ovulation happens on schedule. For couples whose timing has quietly been off, this costs almost nothing and works surprisingly often. We will tell you honestly how long it is sensible to try this before escalating, based on your age and results.
Some findings respond to three months of change better than to any procedure. Sperm count, motility and DNA fragmentation measurably improve after stopping smoking, reducing alcohol, losing excess weight, avoiding prolonged heat and taking targeted antioxidants, because sperm regenerate on a 70–90 day cycle. On the female side, treating an underactive thyroid, normalising prolactin or restoring ovulation through weight change can fix the actual problem outright. This is not wellness fluff; it is the cheapest effective fertility treatment that exists, and we will be specific about what applies to you.
IUI (intrauterine insemination) places prepared sperm directly into the uterus at the moment of ovulation. It is far simpler and far cheaper than IVF, no egg retrieval, no anaesthesia, and it is a reasonable first step when the tubes are open, sperm parameters are normal or only mildly reduced, and the female partner is under about 38. Per-cycle success is honestly modest, up to around 20%, which is why patient selection matters: for the right couple it is a sensible, low-burden start; for the wrong one it wastes precious time. Our testing tells us which one you are.
Why do we volunteer all this? Because trust is our business model. A couple steered honestly today, even away from treatment, is a couple who comes back if treatment is ever needed, and tells their friends. The market is full of clinics where every test result somehow leads to the most expensive package. We would rather be the clinic where it leads to the truth.
If treatment is the right next step, your completed file flows straight into a plan, no repeated tests, no starting over. The three most common pathways:
The usual recommendation for blocked tubes, significant male factor, endometriosis or longer-standing unexplained infertility. Your AMH and follicle count from this assessment directly shape the stimulation protocol, so nothing from your testing visit is wasted. blastocyst culture and time-lapse monitoring are included as standard, from €3,500.
Explore IVF Treatment →The gentler first step when testing shows open tubes, reasonable sperm parameters and regular (or medically inducible) ovulation, typically for younger couples or single women using donor sperm. Low cost, low burden, honestly modest per-cycle rates, and we will tell you when it stops being worth repeating, from €750.
Explore IUI Treatment →When AMH, FSH and the follicle count together show that your own eggs offer a very low realistic chance, usually after multiple failed own-egg cycles or in the mid-40s, donor eggs honestly offer the highest success rates of any treatment, up to 85% with fresh donor eggs. We raise it carefully and only when the numbers justify it.
Explore Egg Donation →Testing is the easiest visit in fertility medicine, but it still helps to know exactly what is normal.
The core package involves nothing more than a blood draw and an internal ultrasound: no anaesthesia, no recovery time, no time off work beyond the visit itself. You can swim, eat, drive and fly the same day.
If an HSG is added, expect period-like cramping for a few minutes and light spotting for a day; take it easy that afternoon. A hysteroscopy with sedation means a couple of hours at the hospital and a quiet evening. That is the full extent of the physical side.
The honest part: waiting for fertility results is nerve-racking, because the numbers feel like a judgement. They are not. Most couples find something treatable or reassuring, and even difficult results come with options attached, that is the entire point of testing early rather than wondering for another year.
What helps: hearing the results together as a couple, having a specialist explain them before you have had a chance to misread them on Google, and leaving with a written plan instead of a vague "let's see". We have built the process around exactly those three things.
Plan 2–3 nights in Kyrenia: testing on the first morning, results and consultation within 48 hours, and the rest is holiday. Time your arrival to day 2–3 of the female partner's cycle if you can; if not, we will work around it. The male partner needs 2–5 days of abstinence before the visit.
Your coordinator arranges airport pick-up, hotel options and all appointments. See our Travel Guide for flights and what to pack, and bring any previous test results you have, in any language.
One transparent price for the complete couples assessment, and the optional extras listed openly with what they cost, so nothing on your invoice is a surprise.
Starting from
€300
Included:
Charged separately, only when indicated:
Extras are only ever performed with your agreement, with the price confirmed first.
In the UK, a private "fertility MOT", typically just AMH and an ultrasound, often for one partner only, costs around £200–£500. A complete private workup for a couple, adding the full hormone panel, a WHO semen analysis and tubal assessment, routinely passes £1,000, with each test invoiced separately and the consultation to interpret them charged on top. NHS testing is free but means GP referral first, waiting lists at each step, and frequently months between the first blood test and a specialist actually explaining the results.
Our package covers both partners, every core test and the specialist consultation for €300, completed in 48 hours inside Kamiloglu Hospital's own laboratory in Cyprus. Even adding flights and two or three hotel nights, many UK couples complete the entire diagnosis for less than a single-partner workup at home, and several turn the visit into a long weekend in Kyrenia.
For how testing fits into our treatment packages, and what every other clinic typically charges as extras, see our transparent pricing page.
Typical total for a UK couple: package €300 + flights ≈€250pp + 3 nights' hotel ≈€150 = ≈€950 all-in for both partners, versus £1,000+ for the tests alone at home, without the flights or the sea view.
Complete IVF, blastocyst culture and time-lapse monitoring included, from €3,500.
Learn More →The simpler first-line treatment when testing shows open tubes and reasonable sperm parameters.
Learn More →If your AMH and follicle count say "act sooner", freezing preserves your options, from €2,000.
Learn More →Living with unanswered questions is often harder than the answers themselves. Let us build a clear picture with the right tests.
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