Symptoms of Infertility – Definitions

When a couple cannot have a baby after 12 months of regular and unprotected intercourse, they can be classified infertile. Infertility is the inability to have a baby.

One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. Extreme reactions often come from couples who are childless.

Infertility in couples who’ve never born children is primary infertility.

On another note, couples who classify under secondary infertility are those who have had a baby before but are now having trouble getting pregnant once more.

The Male Factor

Various physical and emotional factors trigger infertility.

Male-exclusive factors such as low sperm count, retrograde ejaculation, scarring from sexually transmitted diseases, hormone deficiency, and impotence, make up around 30-40% of infertility cases.

Intake of prescription drugs like nitrofurantoin, cimetidine and spironolactone and even frequent marijuana use can negatively affect sperm count.

Femaleness

Pelvic infection, scarring from STDs, endometriosis, ovulation dysfunction, fallopian tube abnormality, tumors, hormonal imbalances, and even poor nutrition are some of these “female factors.” These comprise 40 to 50 % of infertility cases among couples.

Risk factors contributed by both the male and the female, in addition to other unknown causes, comprise 10 to 30% of infertility cases.

It is estimated that just 10 to 20% of couples fail to conceive after a year. It is essential for couples to keep trying to conceive for a year at the very least.

Factors Related To Age

Healthy partners both below 30 years of age having intercourse regularly only have a 25 to 30% probability every month to become pregnant. A woman is most fertile when she’s in her 20s. Women above 35 years of age have a less than 10% chance of getting pregnant, and this declines as they get older.

Other Causes Not Age Related

It is not just age or its related factors that causes infertility. The following are also considered major risks to infertility:

* Having more than one sexual partner (high STD risk)
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* Pelvic inflammatory disease history
* Orchitis or epididymitis history in males
* Mumps in males
* Male varicocle
* A health history including DES exposure (males and females)
* Eating disorders in females
* Anovulation and irregular menstruation
* Endometriosis
* A blockage in the cervix or uterine defects
* Long-term disease like diabetes

Other Useful Information

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