Stress can prevent pregnancy

Nervous meaning "can I perform" can definitely impact conception. The alarms, bells, whistles, and sticks turning blue, signaling a woman's ovulation can be a fun game just so long. Then it gets to be a straidiscuss sources of stress with your gyno as there are ways she can help you.
n on the sexuality of many couples to the point that artificial insemination of partner's sperm may be necessary to just avoid the performance topic all together! We know that stress produces a variety of hormones that wreak havoc on our endocrine system. These stress hormones can produce derangement in the menstrual cycle, so affect ovulation, and derangement in our blood sugar and metabolism, affecting our weight, throw off our biological clock and affect sleep, so we always thought that there must be a link between cortisol levels and conception.In the late 1990s a research group in Australia looked at levels in epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol, and they really couldn't detect differences in those cycles that got pregnant, their study was published in Human Reproduction. But thinking differently one study looked at those having counseling vs those not and those having counseling had better infertility treatment success, so mindful ovulation worked for that small group! In a new study published in Fertility and Sterility looking at couples in Michigan and Texas there again was no difference in the levels of cortisol hormones in the groups who did get pregnant vs the the couples who didn't get pregnant. There was a group of women however that was more likely to conceive if their biomarker alfpha-amylase, measured in saliva, was the lowest. The researchers also found something a bit different about our biologic response to stress. Chronically stressed individuals won't think one day is different than another, but their body will produce stress molecules at a variable rate. And when those stress molecules were the lowest, then in fact there was physiological benefit for conception! Remember it's important to

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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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