Infertility is a disease defined by the failure to establish a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse or due to an impairment of a person’s capacity to reproduce either as an individual or with his/her partner.
Ok, Ok, we tried to write this section a hundred times with the standard medical terminology and stats as we started above, but we believe that if you’re here, you have an idea about what infertility is, as you’re living it.
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, if you are under the age of 35 you should consider seeing a specialist to help diagnose infertility if you have been actively trying to conceive after 12 months of unprotected intercourse. 6 months for women over 35.
If you are experiencing irregular or painful periods, inovulation, multiple miscarriages or you and your partner had multiple STD’s you should seek the advice of a specialist earlier.
Your path to infertility treatment will be determined by your initial diagnosis as some require more invasive procedures and methods.
The good news is that approximately 85-90% of infertility cases are treated with drug therapy or surgical procedures. Fewer than 5% need advanced reproductive technologies (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Choosing a specialist and infertility clinic is deeply personal and one of the most important choices you’ll make during your infertility treatment journey.
We polled our users for their most important factor in choosing a clinic (or perhaps leaving one for another) and the answer was overwhelmingly about the clinic’s personal care and direct access to the RE.
