Learning that you and your partner may never be able to have children can be potentially devastating news.
However, it is important to keep hope alive, no matter what well-intended family or friends may tell you.
Here we discuss the most common causes of infertility: 1.
The most obvious cause of infertility is your health, or I should say, possibly the poor state of your health.
What you might not have known is how your overall health affects every aspect of your system - and even your ability to have children.
If you can improve poor health, you may find that you can get pregnant, even though you've already been diagnosed as infertile.
If you, or your partner, are not in the best possible health that you could be, then it's almost inevitable that you'll encounter problems with conception, and subsequently childbearing.
Don't worry that up until now your health hasn't been the best and the doctors "predict" that you can't have children.
Because I've seen doctors eat words just like that when their patients do get pregnant in spite of the dire predictions.
It is critical that you begin to learn things like - what the best foods are if you're trying to get pregnant, and the amazing power of exercise in your life.
2.
If you and your partner are not using any type of birth control, have had sex for at least a year and you still have no child, medically speaking you are considered infertile.
In reality, you actually may still stand a good chance of conceiving a child in the future.
The success rate of achieving conception in any given month for a healthy couple hovers between 15 and 20 percent.
Generally speaking, about 70 percent of couples conceive after they've been trying for six months.
Eight-five percent of couples are successful at the end of one year or 12 months.
But now, here's the surprising part.
After two years of trying, nearly 95 percent of couples are successful and have got pregnant.
Two years! So, in some ways, if you've only been trying to one year and have not conceived, it's not...
well, inconceivable that you can still have a baby.
3.
Almost all "problems" with infertility can be linked to some type of disorder of the reproductive system - female or male.
Fortunately, many of the "problems" associated with infertility are easily overcome without the use of harsh medications and their possible side effects.
The key is to learn everything you can about the issue of infertility.
The medical community defines infertility as the inability to get pregnant after at least one year of repeated, frequent attempts.
4.
PCOS is the medical community's shorthand for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
Once thought to be caused by a thickening of the ovaries, we now know the root cause of this women's disorder is a hormonal imbalance.
If you have PCOS, then first and foremost thing you've noticed is that your menstrual cycle doesn't follow the "classic" model taught in medical school and health classes.
Physically, your ovaries have small cystic structures, each about two to nine millimeters in diameter.
With this disorder, these structures - you may also hear them called antral follicles - make the ovaries look as if they have a polycystic appearance when viewed on an ultrasound.
The ovaries do indeed contain follicles with eggs, but the follicles don't develop and mature as they should.
This means that your system isn't experiencing ovulation as it should.
If you have PCOS, your body is probably only producing one mature follicle every month.
About eight to 10 percent of women in their reproductive years are afflicted with this disease.
Do you even know if you have PCOS? It could be that you have it and not realize it.
Perhaps it is the cause of your infertility.
5.
Uterine Fibroids can cause infertility.
A fibroid is a benign tumor, this means it's non-cancerous.
And it's found in various areas within the uterus.
Fibroids occur mostly in women of child bearing age.
And, not surprisingly, their growth appears to be hormonally driven.
Many women actually have fibroids but experience absolutely no symptoms.
Others have symptoms such as irregular bleeding, the need to urinate frequently, constipation, pelvic pressure and pain.
For most individuals, the fibroids are very small.
For others, the fibroids develop in areas which don't disrupt the reproductive process.
Medical experts say there are three general locations fibroids can be found in within your uterus..
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Blocked Fallopian Tubes are another common cause of infertility.
This may well actually be one of your medical advisor's first concerns.
Damage to this area of the reproductive system is among the most common causes of female infertility.
The fertilized eggs won't be able to travel the length of these tubes to nestle themselves cozily in the uterus if the tubes are blocking their passage.
Blocked fallopian tubes certainly aren't the end of your chances of having a baby however - and IVF is one solution and probably the most common way to treat tubal factor infertility.
In this procedure, your egg is fertilized outside of your fallopian tube.
The resulting embryo is then implanted inside your uterus.
While the success rate of this process varies from couple to couple, overall, the average success rate averages about 35 percent.
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Another cause of infertility for some women is a condition called endometriosis.
In endometriosis the uterus, which normally grows on the inside of the organ, is actually growing outside of the organ.
Most commonly, this lining grows on the fallopian tubes, ovaries or even on the tissue lining your pelvis.
And while it's there, it acts just as it would if it were inside your uterus.
During your menstrual cycle, the lining of the uterus thickens, breaks down and then sheds.
That's what causes the menstrual bleeding every month.
But when the endometrium is not in the uterus and tries to shed, it becomes trapped.
And it can irritate the surrounding tissue.
The result of this irritated tissue could be the formation of cysts, scar tissues or even adhesions, abnormal tissue binding organs together.
You may notice as a result certain symptoms, including pelvic pain.
You may especially notice this pain during your period.
You may experience a few or all of the symptoms of endometrius.
They include the following - painful periods, pelvic pain, and excessive bleeding.