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Treating Infertility
Q. What is infertility?
Infertility is a disease or condition of the reproductive system often diagnosed after a couple has had one year of unprotected, well-timed intercourse, or if the woman has suffered from multiple miscarriages.
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Q. Who gets it?
Infertility is a medical problem. Approximately 40% of infertility is due to a female factor and 40% is due to a male factor. In the balance of the cases, infertility results from problems in both partners or the cause of the infertility cannot be explained.
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Q. What are the risk factors?
- Weight
- Age
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- Tubal Disease
- Endometriosis
- DES Exposure
- Smoking
- Alcohol
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Q. Can it be prevented?
Infertility is a disease. In some cases, you can take actions to prevent infertility. However, many causes of infertility cannot be prevented.
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Q. What are the signs and symptoms?
Often there are no signs or symptoms associated with an infertility problem. Listening to your body and getting regular checkups will help to detect a problem. Early detection and treatment of a problem are often critical in achieving successful pregnancy outcomes later.
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Q. What types of infertility are there?
Infertility is broken down into male factor, female factor, combination of the two and unexplained infertility. For more information on infertility diagnosis visit the treatment section of our site.
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Q. Infertility Myths and Facts
A great deal of misinformation about infertility exists today. People often say, "If you just relax, you'll get pregnant." These kind of statements can be misleading and hurtful for couples experiencing infertility. View a list of infertility Myths and Facts
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Q. What Everyone Should Know About Infertility
Infertility can be a major life crisis. The infertility experience involves many hidden losses for individuals, their loved ones, and society as a whole.
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Q. How is infertility treated?
Medical technology now offers more answers and treatment options to men and women trying to conceive a child. From hormonal treatments, ovulation indiction and Intrauterine insemination to more advanced technologies like in vitro fertilization, ICSI to surrogacy, egg/sperm donation and even embryo donation. For more information on treatment of infertility visit the treatment section of our site.
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Q. What medications are used?
There are a variety of medications used to treat infertility. It is important to understand the medications and what their purpose is and to speak with your physician about the medications that will be used in your specific treatment plan.
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Q. What is artificial insemination?
Artificial insemination is now more commonly referred to as, IUI, Intrauterine insemination. It is a procedure of using the husband's or donor sperm, washing and treating the sperm and injecting it into the woman during the time of ovulation.
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Q. What is In Vitro Fertilization or IVF?
In vitro fertilization, IVF, gets its name from the fact that fertilization occurs outside of the woman's body, in a lab dish instead of a woman's fallopian tubes. Typically, a woman will use ovulation stimulating drugs to produce an excess number of eggs. These eggs are surgically removed from the woman and fertilized in dish with sperm. If fertilization takes place, the physician transfers the embryo(s) into the women's uterus.
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Q. Can infertility be surgically treated?
Some types of infertility can be surgically treated in both the male and the female. The most common type of surgery for the male is to treat varicocele. Tubal problems and endometriosis for the female are the most common types of infertility treated by surgery.
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