Irregular periods are
common in infertile women. However, many women are very
confused about the relation between irregular periods
and their infertility. They naively assume that once
their periods become regular, they will conceive.
While it's easy to make the periods regular by putting
a woman on birth control pills, this will obviously
not help her to get pregnant.
You need to remember that just like infertility is
only a symptom, and not a diagnosis, irregular periods
are also just a symptom of an underlying problem called
anovulation, or not ovulating. It is the underlying
anovulation which causes both the irregular periods
and the infertility, and this is what needs to be treated.
Infertile women with irregular periods need the following
medical tests: blood test for measuring the level of
the reproductive hormones, FSH,LH,PRL and TSH on Day
3 of their cycle, so we can find out what the reason
for the anovulation is.
Once we know what the problem is, then we can treat
it by inducing
ovulation !
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