Dolphinsbaby
My 3 little guys!
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Anyone ever hear of bacterial infections possibly causing IF?
Someone mentioned to me that many cases of unexplained IF are caused by bacterial infections which can be easily and cheaply treated with antibiotics. Anyone ever hear of this? I feel a little silly mentioning this to my RE who is the chief of my clinic and doing this over 30 years. But, I find this very interesting. Thoughts?
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Dolphinsbaby
My 3 little guys!
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Re: Anyone ever hear of bacterial infections possibly causing IF?
Below is what I'm talking about. I copied and pasted it from a user on the bump.
But recently I've been reading about the fact that many cases of "unexplained infertility" are very possibly caused by bacterial infections which can be easily and cheaply treated by antibiotics. These infections may cause sperm to stick together, or may be causing an inhospitable environment for the sperm in general. Many people carry these infections without knowing it. You can read about this in many publications, including this link I just found. This means that once it's taken a couple a while to conceive, after undergoing some of the standard tests, they may want to first treat any possible undetected infections they could both be carrying before having costly HSGs and SISs. I have
read so many case studies about couples trying for many years, spending tens of thousands on procedures, and then finally taking a simple antibiotic which cleared
up a somewhat simple infection, and then conceiving without help.
I know I may be coming across as idiotic because maybe a lot of you will think "duh, I already knew about this." But to be honest, I really wasn't clued into this "infection thing" until recently, upon reading the book "Making Babies". And when I brought it up to my RE, he acknowledged that yes, it's possible, and he went ahead and wrote me a prescription. But he never brought the idea up for me, and he never would have. I don't believe that many REs do. As of now, MH and I have "unexplained IF" and I'm looking forward to trying out the antibiotics first, just in case they clear us both up and help us conceive.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that treating a possible infection will magically make a couple conceive. Obviously IUI or IVF may sometimes be the only answer. But I just wish more doctors would discuss this infection scenario with us before steering us straight toward more invasive options.
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