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How will my irregular periods affect my ability to get pregnant?
Irregular Periods
Menstrual cycles that vary more than a few days in length from month to month are considered irregular cycles or periods. Most menstrual cycle intervals occur about every four weeks, with the normal range between 24 and 35 days. To measure your menstrual cycle, start counting from the first day of your last period and stop counting on the first day of your next period. Don't worry if you have one or two irregular cycles because occasionally all women have variations in their periods. True irregularity persists over several months. So if you do notice wide fluctuations in your cycle, speak to your doctor about it.
Irregular periods and getting pregnant
Irregular periods can be troublesome when trying to get pregnant. Irregular or abnormal ovulation and menstruation accounts for 30% to 40% of all cases of infertility. Irregularity, per se, is not necessarily a problem if you learn how to chart your fertility signs, especially cervical fluid, to determine when you are approaching your short window of fertility. But, if cycles are very long, it means by definition, that ovulation is not occurring as often as it would with a typical monthly cycle, a condition known clinically as anovulation.
There are numerous factors that determine how fertile a woman is, such as her age, whether and how often she ovulates, whether her cervical fluid is wet enough to sustain sperm, whether her fallopian tubes are open, etc. But the most important of all is the release of the egg itself. If you don't release an egg, meaning you don't ovulate, you don't have as many opportunities to get pregnant.
Treatment for irregular periods
Women with irregular periods are often prescribed fertility drugs like Clomid to increase the number of ovulation periods. But if you would rather try a more natural approach, you might want to see a naturopathic doctor first to see if they can prescribe a less harsh treatment.
Although anovulation can usually be treated with fertility drugs, it is important to rule out other conditions that could interfere with ovulation, such as liver disease, diabetes, problems with the ovaries, and abnormalities of the adrenal, pituitary, or thyroid glands, which produce important hormones.
2007-04-02 02:22:35
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answered by Anonymous
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If you have irregular periods, then it is hard to track when you are ovulating based on your period (usually a person ovulates 14 days after the first day of their period). For you, I would suggest charting your basal body temperature. You can pick a thermometer up at your local drugstore. Make sure it says it reads the basal body temp (these are more sensitive and therefore more accurate.) Keep the thermometer by your bed. In the morning, BEFORE you move around too much (i.e. do not get out of bed) take your temp and write it down. Chart it for a few months. You'll notice your temperature peaks and valleys. When it raises, you are ovulating. This is one way to tell when you are ovulating with irregular periods. It may take you a while to figure out the pattern of your body, but if you use this method you will be able to tell when you are ovulating and thus when is the best chance of getting pregnant.
Good luck!
2007-04-02 02:56:10
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answered by poohb2878 6
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I had PCOS and had the same issue. Try to calculate the middle of your cycle (using the 1st day of your period as day 1) and then the week before all the way up til you get your period, have some nookie every 2nd night. I got pregnant the 1st cycle using this method, but your hormones could be different. If you are successful, ask for a scan to get the estimated due date. By the traditional method, I was due on the 1st Feb, but she wasn't born til the 3rd March. We had a scan at what we thought was 20 weeks but we were only 16....
Best of luck!!
2007-04-02 02:22:37
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answered by jasibutton 1
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Hi - I would suggest that you read the information in a book called: Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom, by Dr. Christiane Northrup.
She has the best method that i know of so far. However, i would strongly suggest that you also take a little time to grow into being a woman. 23 is pretty young. I didn't understand much about being a woman until i was 25.
Contrary to what you might feel inside, you don't NEED a baby. It won't solve anything to have one...
Take care!
2007-04-02 02:25:21
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answered by RACHEL 1
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Irregular periods may be 'normal' for you. Many women don't have regular periods and it doesn't mean anything is necessarily wrong.
You can still know when you are fertile just by learning to notice certain changes in your body. Just prior to ovulation, your breasts may become tender, you may develop a few pimples, and most telling of all, your vaginal discharge (cervical mucus) will change to a clear, stretchy matter that is the same consistency as egg-whites. When you have 'egg-white cervical mucus,' you are fertile; the egg will be released soon (within a day to a few days).
Best wishes to you trying to conceive.
2007-04-02 02:32:39
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answered by Anonymous
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No worries it takes time to get pregnant! even though your periods may be irregular there is still a very good chance of concieving. Try to count on avererage how many days you have in between your periods and then you want to have sex in the middle of your periods then will be the best time to concieve!! Don't stress it will make it less likley to happen just go with the flow and you'll get pregnant!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!
2007-04-02 02:28:00
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answered by Stephanie B 2
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You will need to see a doctor. We can't tell you what is going on inside your body. A hormone imbalance is one of the major reasons for having irregular periods.
2007-04-02 02:20:06
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answered by Ryan's mom 7
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You need to track your cycles. Find an average # of days between periods. Then halfway between 'em should be your most fertile days. Read up on signs of ovulation and listen to your body. It will probably tell you when you're fertile. My other advice is to put your legs in the air after you have sex. That will ensure the semen goes where it needs to go and give you a better chance of concieving.
2007-04-02 02:24:25
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answered by Kat H 6
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Well if you can not even take care of yourself what makes you think you could take care of a baby? You should have been going to the doctor long before now to check out the irregular periods. Yes there could be something wrong, but we can not diagnose the problem. Go to the doctor!
2007-04-02 02:21:07
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answered by Sara 4
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ditto to what everyone else said, could be one of a million things, go see a dr.
2007-04-02 02:22:31
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answered by domsmom701 3
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