Questions You Need to Ask Your Fertility Specialist
It is not an easy thing to see an infertility specialist as it can be both a bit scary and give you hope. You will be in for learning about several new terms and tests that you probably didn’t even know to exist. Further, if you want to discuss treatment options such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), you may also think about its cost and other aspects of the treatment to fulfil your dream of becoming parents. Most patients are advised to prepare before going to visit an infertility specialist and note down all the questions they want to ask. …
Progesterone and Pregnancy
Progesterone is a natural hormone, produced by ovaries after a woman ovulates (when an egg is released into the fallopian tube). This hormone is also called the pregnancy hormone and plays a key role in fertility and pregnancy. It is called so as it helps in getting pregnant and promotes pregnancy. Progesterone makes the uterus ready to accept and keep a fertilized egg. A woman’s progesterone level is generally low during the first few days of her menstrual period. But her progesterone levels rise for around five days once she ovulates and comes back down. Progesterone Tests for Fertility Problems …
What Do You Need to Know About Tubal Factor Infertility?
Tubal Factor Infertility is when the fallopian tube(s) get blocked and it prevents the sperm from going to the ovary to fertilize an egg or the fertilized egg from reaching the uterus for pregnancy. Because the fallopian tubes connect the ovaries to the uterus, either one or both of them may get affected. In the case of partial blockage, the risk of ectopic pregnancy is more. In a normal pregnancy, an ovary releases an egg into the fallopian tube where it attaches to a sperm that fertilizes the egg. This fertilized egg further travels to the uterus where it attaches …
My Struggle With Infertility
While I am writing these sentences, it still feels like a dream or better to state it actually felt like a nightmare. In the event that you or somebody near to you has fought infertility, I wish I could reach out and hug them through my write-ups. It’s something I would not wish on my worst enemy even. The procedure resembles a major rollercoaster packed with good and bad times. Sometimes you might feel down and, in the event, when you are down, IVF punches you in the face. It simply feels like a war on body and mind. No …
Karyomapping – A Boon For PGD Patients
Hereditary or genetic issues (contingent upon their seriousness) can have an overwhelming mental, social and financial effect on whole families. Numerous families watch their friends and family bearing devastating conditions and lose any hope of needing to begin their very own family, inspired by a paranoid fear of passing on the quality of gene that influenced their family for ages. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a treatment that includes isolation of cells from a developing embryo and testing the cells for the hereditary issue or genetic abnormality. The wide-spread use of this procedure is generally new and research in this …
How To Deal With Unexplained Infertility?
While you might find the answer to the question “How to conceive with infertility problems?” It is very hard to find the answer to the question “How to conceive with unexplained infertility?” The first answer to anybody who might think they’re facing infertility is a fertility test. Typically, a fertility test has substantial evidence of whether or not you have a fertility problem. Based on the reports of this test, you are directed towards what the problem is and what is causing it. But what if at the first step itself, you are diagnosed with unexplained infertility? At this stage, …
How OASIS Helped Me Fight PCOS To Get Pregnant?
Being a woman, one of the conditions that we fear is PCOS or PCOD, short for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Disorder. And, I happened to be a victim of it. I was diagnosed with this condition when I visited my general physician due to highly irregular periods or no periods for a few months altogether. The doctor then explained my condition to me, saying that there are multiple cysts in my ovaries, which hinder the maturation of eggs; hence, ovulation does not take place. Because there was no ovulation, my estrogen, FSH, LH, and progesterone levels are altered. While progesterone …
Does Egg Freezing Help In Protecting Fertility?
Why Egg Freezing Works? Egg freezing enables women to utilize their very own eggs, freeze when they are youthful and sound, to enable them to accomplish a pregnancy later—when they may some way or other have a harder time discovering healthy eggs. The extravagant logical name for egg freezing is “oocyte” (egg) “cryopreservation” (freezing). Cryopreservation is a decades-old methodology utilized in a few parts of medication. The fundamental reason is this: cooling cells, for this situation egg cells, to an exceptionally low temperature (think – 196º Celsius, or about – 320º Fahrenheit) stops all cell action, including maturing. In layman’s …
Causes of Unexplained Infertility
However common it is, unexplained infertility is a frustrating diagnosis to receive. But unexplained does not mean it cannot be diagnosed and treated; there is always a ray of hope. While one doctor might diagnose your case as unexplained, another doctor may say you have not been evaluated thoroughly to determine the cause or come to a conclusion. Hence, unexplained infertility can only be diagnosed after doing a full fertility evaluation of both the partners (male and female). Your doctor will only come to this conclusion after analyzing all the results from the tests and still cannot determine the cause. …
How Does Diabetes Affect Male Fertility?
Diabetes causes high levels of sugar (explicitly, a sugar called glucose) in your blood. Insulin is the hormone that brings down your glucose levels. Diabetes happens or occurs when the pancreas (the organ that makes insulin), cannot produce insulin, or when your body does not respond to insulin. The glucose levels begin to rise if there ‘isn’t enough insulin in the body, at the point which, it starts to trigger diabetes. If you have diabetes, you will be likely to have a higher possibility of being prone to sexual and regenerative medical issues. Some of the male infertility conditions that …