Problem-solving unexplained infertility involves a step-by-step walk-through of the steps needed to get pregnant and highlighting things that can prevent that from happening at each step. Once the steps are checked, most of the potential problems can be excluded, and it’s possible to have a more focused approach. Steps to pregnancy P...
Unexplained infertility is the diagnosis almost a third of couples who go to fertility clinics receive i after they’ve had a wide range of fertility tests. To be told at the end of this “we don’t know” is distressing and frustrating. In an ideal world, the “fertility work-up” involves laparoscopy to check fo...
Many drugs have a powerful impact on male fertility, and semen testing makes it relatively easy to measure this. Drugs have an abnormally significant effect on sperm because they’re by far the smallest cells we have, and their DNA is on single (rather than double) helix strands. The way they’re made in the testicles is also very un...
The causes of unexplained infertility are by their very nature unclear, and future research will probably reveal conditions we currently know little about. While it’s impossible to say exactly why couples are diagnosed with unexplained infertility, we’ve highlighted eleven factors that contribute to the diagnosis, and nine of them can be...
