Can Women Fight Infertility?
Elizabeth Applebeck, contributing writer Dealing with infertility and the difficulties of becoming pregnant can be a devastating experience for many women who are still in their child-bearing years. Infertility can start anywhere in the female reproductive system. For example, the ovaries are one place that infertility may take place while the fallopian tubes are another. Causes of infertility range from tumors to cysts to name a couple. Some women may not even have anything wrong with their reproductive organs to be infertile, but may have low levels of the hormone progesterone which works right along with the hormone estrogen. Progesterone helps the female body prepare for conception, pregnancy and helps regulate the menstrual cycle. The main role of progesterone is maintaining pregnancy. When a women becomes infertile from not having enough progesterone, her doctor may prescribe her an over the counter fertility drug to help stimulate her ovaries to release eggs for conception. Clom