The Fertility Book by Adam Balen & Grace Dugdale

Author:Adam Balen & Grace Dugdale [Balen, Adam & Dugdale, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473555617
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Ovulation Matters

BEING AWARE OF what your body is telling you about your reproductive health can really help when it comes to needing medical treatment. One of the most significant factors is understanding whether or not you are ovulating. If you have very irregular periods, long gaps between periods or, sometimes, no periods at all, this may mean you are not ovulating. These situations can be grouped together with the term ‘anovulatory infertility’ or anovulation.

The steps that can be taken to manage this are first to correct any underlying disorder (such as nutritional deficiency in those who are underweight) and optimise health (by losing weight in those who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and are overweight) before starting treatment to stimulate regular unifollicular ovulation – that is with the release of a single egg. We have already looked at the first two (see Chapters 3 and 6), so in this chapter we will focus on ovulation.

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