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Symptoms of Infertility – Age, Sex and Lifestyle Factors

By plrprousers | February 21, 2010

Infertility Symptoms – Definitions

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

One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. Severe reactions occur more frequently among childless couples.

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.

Masculinity – The Male Element

A number of factors, both physical and emotional, can 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.

Frequent marijuana use and intake of prescription drugs like cimetidine, nitorfurantoin, and spironolactone may affected sperm count.

Femaleness

Ovarian cysts, tumors, pelvic infection, hormonal imbalances, ovarian dysfunction, enometriosis, fallopian tube abnormalities, scarring from STD are some examples of “female factors.” These are responsible for 40 to 50% of infertility in couples.

Factors from both male and female, including other unknown causes, make up 10 to 30% of infertility cases.

It is projected that only 10 to 20% of couples won’t be able to get pregnant after one year. It is very important for couples to try having a baby for at least 12 months.

Age Sensitive Causes

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.

More Non Age Related Causes

Factors related to age are not the sole reasons for infertility. Infertility may also be increased due to the following:

* Having had sex with more than one partner
* Sexually transmitted infections
* Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) history
* History of epididymitis or orchitis in men
* Mumps among men
* Varicocele in males
* Health history citing DES exposure (both sexes)
* Eating disorders among women
* Irregular menstrual cycles and anovulation
* Endometriosis
* Uterine problems or a blockage in the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes

 

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