Here is more support for sleep disruption as a dramatic stressor in reproduction. We have noticed that physiologic stress patients that we term "hypothalamic dysfunction" seem to have a much greater chance of miscarriage as well as no pregnancy or infertility. This study makes the basic connection and is in no way proof of causation
Of course this is the case. The medical system is failing endometriosis patients in a dramatic way. If you were taught that endometriosis surgery doesn't work and that it recurs anyway, and that most medicines to treat pain only work or are allowed to be used short term, then as a doctor you really don't
Research Indicates Children Conceived Through ART Do Not Face Increased Cancer Risk These studies from small countries like the Netherlands are helpful because their socialized systems do allow for accurate data collection and likely capture most events in the healthcare system for the country. This safe bill of health from a cancer standpoint is reassuring
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/magazine/fertility-weight-obesity-ivf.html This is certainly a very emotional and controversial subject. To read the coverage on this, you would think doctors are refusing care to patients because they don't like people who are overweight. This is far from the truth. A host of studies that look at IVF outcome based on BMI (body mass index
Uterine fibroids (also known as leiomyomas) are extremely common muscle tumors (or growths) that develop from a single muscle cell within the womb. It is stated in the literature that up to 75% of women develop a fibroid prior to menopause (1). That being said, not all women require intervention. The questions that need to
Caution: It has been amazing to me the speed with which the marijuana legalization movement has changed popular thought. Especially in our younger patients, there is a sense that somehow marijuana is good for everything. We see patients regularly who have "read studies" that marijuana works for just about anything. We jokingly say, soon there
Prepregnancy BMI May Be More Important Risk Factor For Adverse Maternal-Fetal Outcomes Than Weight Gain During Pregnancy, Meta-Analysis Suggests. This study clearly supports our belief that BMI correlates with metabolic dysfunction severity. Pre-pregnancy weight is the measure of this parameter. If this can be significantly changed, we see a much better outcome beginning with fertility
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Many Women With Menstrual Symptoms Do Not Tell Their Families Or Physicians, Study Indicates. These findings are completely consistent with our findings after taking thousands of histories of women with pelvic pain. We ask every patient if their period pain was worse than their peers in the teen years. The vast majority say they don't
Stress Appears To Lower A Woman’s Chances Of Getting Pregnant, Study Finds. There are so few studies focused on stress and fertility. We know from working daily with patients struggling to become pregnant, that stress is a huge factor. This study does show that stress around ovulation may be more important. This is an epidemiologic
