Endometriosis – that’s a pretty big word! Even though there are links between endometriosis and infertility, if you do have it you’d probably know about it way before you try to have kids. That’s ‘cause one of the symptoms of endometriosis is incredibly painful periods. You see, what happens is that cells that usually only [...]
Being diagnosed with infertility is quite traumatic. One of the first things that go through your mind is the question: ‘Why? Why me? What are the reasons for infertility?’ Basically, you want to know why you are infertile. On a cosmic scale, I don’t think anyone could give you a straight answer.
Some people might place [...]
Dealing with infertility stress
The relationship between stress and infertility has been quite controversial: first, the doctors said that infertility was largely a result of stress, then they said it had very little to do with stress, and now they’re starting to acknowledge that stress and infertility are linked. Whatever the doctors say, I don’t know [...]
Now that you’re looking at the whole issue of infertility, you’ve probably heard a bunch of words bandied about and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘What is infertility really?’ It can get quite confusing if you thought you were infertile, and then someone tells you you’re sub-fertile or hypo-fertile and your test results come back with [...]
I know you were dreading that visit to the doctor, but at least now you know what the problem is! So now you can get some idea of what treatment you’ll need and, as much as I hate to bring up finance, what it’s going to cost. I’ve heard that treating infertility costs quite a [...]