What Does It Mean To Be Anovulatory?
The approach to infrequent periods and abnormal pituitary-ovary communication is to first look for underlying medical conditions. Correcting the abnormality will probably restore regular periods. For example, women with PCOS who are treated with medications that improve insulin sensitivity increase their likelihood of ovulating and becoming pregnant. When no correctable medical condition is found, women can take birth control pills to raise estrogen for preservation of bone density. Anovulation is a common cause of infertility because the number of eggs released each year can be very few or none. Fortunately, medical research in this field has been robust and has provided doctors with medications that can help many women who are anovulatory become pregnant. For example, clomiphene is a medication commonly used to help your pituitary gland produce more stimulating hormone for the ovary. Or the stimulating hormone itself may be given directly in an injectable form. When I see women in my
