Patient's question:
What symptoms in women may lead to infertility? Which is the best infertility hospital in Hangzhou?Doctor's answer:
Hello, there are many people who have been infertile for years due to menstrual disorders, which is something everyone can easily understand. Women of childbearing age may experience infertility if they have the following symptoms:1. Irregular menstruation:
- ① Changes in the menstrual cycle, with periods coming earlier or later;
- ② Changes in menstrual flow, either excessive or insufficient;
- ③ Extended menstrual periods, commonly seen in luteal phase deficiency and endometrial inflammation.
2. Amenorrhea:
- No menstruation by the age of 18;
- Menstruation occurring after which there are consecutive periods of more than 6 months without menstruation.
- Amenorrhea is a significant cause of infertility. The latter can be classified as uterine, ovarian, pituitary, or hypothalamic amenorrhea based on the affected area.
3. Dysmenorrhea:
- Pain during menstruation may occur when suffering from conditions such as endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), uterine fibroids, uterine underdevelopment, or abnormal uterine position.
4. Symptoms before and after menstruation:
- Some women experience periodic symptoms before and during menstruation, such as "breast tenderness before menstruation," "headache during menstruation," "diarrhea during menstruation," "edema during menstruation," "fever during menstruation," "oral candidiasis during menstruation," "facial acne before menstruation," "urticaria during menstruation," and "depression or irritability during menstruation." These are often caused by endocrine dysfunction leading to luteal phase deficiency and can result in infertility.
5. Abnormal vaginal discharge:
- Increased vaginal discharge, yellow in color, with a foul odor, resembling curd or watery discharge, or accompanied by external genital itching and pain, may occur when suffering from conditions such as vaginitis, cervical inflammation (cervical erosion), endometritis, adnexitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, or sexually transmitted infections. These conditions can affect fertility to varying degrees.
6. Abdominal pain:
- Chronic lower abdominal or bilateral abdominal or lumbosacral pain may occur in the presence of pelvic inflammatory disease, uterine myitis, ovarianitis, endometriosis, or tumors of the uterus or ovaries.
7. Galactorrhea:
- Milk discharge from the breasts in non-breastfeeding women, either spontaneously or after manual stimulation, often suggests hypothalamic dysfunction, pituitary tumors, prolactinomas, primary hypothyroidism, chronic kidney failure, or may be caused by birth control pills or antihypertensive drugs such as reserpine.
- Galactorrhea is often accompanied by amenorrhea, leading to infertility.
Wishing you good health!