Thinking of a Baby, Here's Why to Check Your Cholesterol First

It is true that pregnancy, and even at time raising the children, can be hard on the heart; but that is not why you need a cholesterol test if you are trying to get pregnant. Poor cholesterol can affect your chances of getting pregnant in a new study in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. This means cholesterol levels that are outside the normal guidelines for your age. In their study the higher the cholesterol the longer it took for the couples to get pregnant. Who knows why this is, it may be that the cholesterol levels affect estrogen and testosterone hormone levels and thus affect ovulation that way. We known that cholesterol is one of the prime factors that contribute to blood vessel disease and blockages and ultimately lead to strokes, heart attacks, poor kidneys, poor circulation in our eyes, and poor circulation in our brains and feet, and well as reduced sexual function! So maybe it's just not enough sex. As the couples that took the longest time to get pregnant both mom and dad had high cholesterol! Ultimately we are more worried about circulation, and the blocks to circulation cholesterol can create. Some critical sites for blockage due to plaque is due to factors that have to do with blood flow, the lower the flow in an area the easier it is for particles to dock and build the plaque. For those trying to get pregnant I theorize that the placental circulation could be one of those critical sites, or perhaps just the fertilized embryo trying to attach to the uterine wall and establish good circulation. Plaque could affect implantation that way as well. Thus when we want to know about all the factors that affect blood flow and hormonal levels before we just blame cholesterol, but then your cholesterol is relatively easy to correct if you want a baby! We advocate additional lipid testing for many women through one of our partners called Health Diagnostic Laboratory. Call your gyno for a test and see what your number is before you try the baby making!

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Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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