i have been trying to conceive for almost a yr and nothing works any tips that could help?

Question

anything would help

Answer 1

Please tell me you are female.

Answer 2

Hi Amber,
Are you at all overweight? I was overweight and everytime I started a diet and lost around twenty pounds I was very fertile. Actually, all 4 times I got pregnant was after a twenty pound or so weight loss. The first time I weighed around 165 and when I reached 150 I was pregnant. The other 3 times I was well into the 200's but the weight loss did it for me in both situations. Maybe you should give it a try. I don't know many women who would not want to lose a few pounds and you will get them back with pregnancy if you don't want to be smaller than you are now. Hope this helps!
Tina

Answer 3

Before seeing a fertility doc, I'd recommend charting your fertility signs. Charting can tell you when YOU are fertile, when you are not, when you're ovulating, when to expect the next period and when to susect pregnancy.

Many difficulties in conceiving and/or carrying a pregnancy are due to difficulties in the cycle.

Some are timing issues. Many women are told they probably ovulate around Day 14 (especially if they have a 28-30 day cycle). Other women are told to count back 14 days from the begining of the last period to calculate last O and predict next O (so 14 days before the next period is expected). If a woman is very regular, day counting may tell her approximately when she's ovulating. However, if her cycles are irregular, anovulatory, or her luteal phase is shorter than usual, day counting will not give accurate estimate. Day counting also does not tell if luteal phase is accurate, if there is enough progesterone to sustain pregnancy, or if there is fertile cervical fluid present before ovulation. Charting can allow a couple to better time intercourse to the WOMAN'S own cycle.

Charting can show if enough fertile cervical fluid is present and when. Sperm can only survive 30min - 4hrs in the woman's body w/o fertile cervical fluid. Lack of fertile CF can definitely prevent conception entirly. Poor quality CF can impede it. Some women have many days of very fertile CF (called egg-white CF) and some women have only half a day and/or the CF is not quite as fertile (creamy or thick) CF. Since CF dries up pretty quickly after ovulation, the best time to conceive is usally BEFORE ovulation. Timing intercourse w/ fertile cervical fluid would give the best chance of conception.

A luteal phase problem can make it difficult to carry a pregancy. The luteal phase is the time after ovulation and before the next period. It is when the corpus luteum of the egg is producing progesterone required by a fertilized egg to implant and grow in the uterus. Low progresterone (correctable by natural progesterone creams or prescription progesterone) is characterized by low and/or erratic basal body temps after ovulation. A normal luteal phase is between 12-16 days after ovulation. An LP of at least 10 is necessary to sustain a pregancy. Therefore, an LP shorter than 10 days may allow for conception but the egg would not likely fully implant before the next period. Even a woman w/ a textbook cycle of 28 days could have a short LP making conception difficult in timing if day counting is used and the carrying of pregnancy difficult b/c of the short LP. B-complex vitamins can be used to extend a short LP.

In addition, even normal healthy couples can take more than a year to conceive. Charting allows for better timing and for problems in the cycle to be detected and corrected. Getting pregnant can still take some time and patience though, as frustrating as it can be.

Some good sources: Fertilityfriend.com (free software as well as a pay-for version and on-line charting turorial); ovusoft.com (discussion boards for many fertility related issues, much info on fertility after the pill, and a very good software for purchase). The books Taking Charge of Your Fertility (associated w/ the the ovusoft website and software) The Art of Natural Family Planning, and Garden of Fertility.

Answer 4

YES! Contact the Paul VI Institute. They specialize in women's health and fertility issues. Their website is here: http://www.popepaulvi.com/. In the mean time, if you haven't already, start charing your symptoms. (You can find an instructor for NFP--natural family planning--at www.ccli.org and www.onemoresoul.com. Including links below!) The doctors and specialists that you meet there will need to see your fertility charts to figure out what is going on with your body.
I will keep you and your spouse in my prayers! God bless!

Answer 5

Talk to your doctor, have you been tracking your ovulation? If not that would be a great place to start. You can try the fertility moniter (it's pricey) or cheaper ovulation strips sold where the pregnancy tests are.
Good luck!

Answer 6

Talk to your Dr...you can start testing to see if anything os wrong...they can do a blood test to see if you are ovulating (just because you get your period every month does not mean that you are ovulating) go for a HSG to see if there are any blodkages...have your partner go for a semen analysis...then after all teh tests talk to your Dr about your options.

Answer 7

Stop trying. Just decide you're going to have sex like usual, but try to get pregnant later. Decide to like, take some online classes, or, start a hobby like painting and take lessons or start a business venture... something that takes up your time.

Its when you stop trying that the pressure is completely removed and before you know it... BAM preggo.

Worked for me, I was pregnant in one cycle after I decided to try in a couple years after starting a new career.

Worked for quite a few other women I know.

STOP TRYING.

Answer 8

It is time to consider talking to your OBGYN doctor. She/He will have some good advice and they will be able to do tests to see if there is anything wrong.

Answer 9

u can consult any gyn or infertility expert than we'll discuss abt it...