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Endometriosis can affect fertility even without obvious symptoms. At Houston Fertility Center, we tailor your treatment to relieve pain and to help you conceive. Whether through medication, IVF, or bypassing tubal issues, we have options to help you achieve pregnancy and complete your family.
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Endometriosis is a situation
where the lining that's normally inside
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the cavity that a woman sheds every month
when she has her period,
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that lining has moved
to be outside the uterus.
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Endometriosis can cause
a couple of problems.
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One is it can just cause pain.
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For fertility,
endometriosis can block tubes.
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Endometriosis can cause cysts in the ovary
making it difficult for the woman
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to grow the egg every month
or for the tube to catch the egg.
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Endometriosis can also affect the ability
of the sperm to fertilize the egg.
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Most women do not have
any symptoms of endometriosis.
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They don't even know that they have it.
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We can give you fertility medicines
to increase the ovulation production.
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If a tube is blocked,
we can bypass that, too,
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by hopefully creating eggs
on both sides if it's one tube.
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Or if both tubes are blocked,
we can do in vitro fertilization
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to bypass the tubal issue
and to make sure that the sperm
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fertilizes the egg for those situations
where endometriosis is decreasing
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the ability of the egg
to become fertilized.
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Patients should consider
Houston Facility Center
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for treatment or evaluation
of their endometriosis for fertility
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because we are
going to direct the treatment
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towards getting them pregnant.
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Your general OB/GY is going
to focus the treatment more on pain.
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Treatment for pain is not the same
as treatment for trying to get pregnant.
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We are going to tailor it
to get you pregnant
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to help complete your family.
