So you've been told you have fibroids, but these non-cancerous tumors aren't the cause of your infertility. But you're wondering if they are going to impair your treatments in any way.
You have every right to wonder about that. That question seems to be up for open discussion in the general medical community at large. One of the difficulties in answering that with any certainty involves the issue of fibroids themselves.
Since little is know about how they actually may prevent embryo implantation, it's difficult to know how fibroids may affect you during this treatment.
One thing that seems to be a given is that if the fibroids that either enlarge or actually distort the uterine cavity seem to diminish your chances of a successful embryo implantation.
If, on the other hand, the fibroid doesn't distort the uterine in any way, then in all likelihood it shouldn't disrupt the treatment.
Here is an interesting study that doesn't prove that fibroids cause infertility, but it certainly helps to establish a link to the two. Researchers gathered data from 1,200 women who underwent fibroid surgery.
Going into the surgery more than a quarter of them -- 27 percent to be exact -- experienced infertility. Another 3 percent of them at the outset of this study had a history of miscarriage.
What's more, of these 1,200 women more than three-quarters of them -- specifically 76 percent -- had no other explainable cause for their failure to get pregnant.
Following the surgery to remove the tumors, the conception rate of these women rose dramatically. A full 40 percent of them were able to conceive. Since the result of this study has been published other research has appeared showing similar results, some of which put the post-surgery conception rates as high as 60 percent.
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