PCOS, Fertility and Irregular Menstrual Cycles
Understanding the Effect of PCOS, menstrual cycles and fertility
Irregular periods and changes in menstrual cycle patterns is not unusual for many women diagnosed with PCOS. For some women with PCOS, their menstrual cycle is like clockwork, while others struggle to know when or if it's going to happen. If you have only slight variations from month to month, but you have your menstrual period at least once every 25 to 35 days, this could be normal. However, if your cycle is absent for more than 2 months, you bleed too little or too much, experience pain or you can't predict when it's going to happen, these may be clues to why you can't conceive.
Having an irregular menstrual cycle may mean that ovulation isn't happening or it's happening only a few times a year. It can also be a sign of hormonal imbalances that influence egg production, quality and implantation. This will affect your ability to get pregnant.
While some women may think that not having your period is a good thing, in fact, it can lead to more problems as it is often an underlying symptom of other conditions associated with PCOS such as low thyroid hormone production or poor thyroid hormone uptake. This can lead to annovulation, poor egg quality and poor implantation. This is why women with PCOS typically receive treatment to induce menstruation. Western herbal medicine provides a gentle yet effective means of restoring menstrual regularity in women diagnosed with PCOS.
For example, emmenagogue foods, or emmenagogic foods, are foods and herbs that have been reported to stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus and that are believed to stimulate menstruation.
One famous emmenagogue is the herb parsley (Petroselinum hortense), which has been used in western herbal medicine for centuries as a uterine stimulant to induce labor and to bring on delayed periods. It has even been used as an abortifacient with the hope of aborting unwanted pregnancies. Considering that parsley contains apiol (also known as parsley camphor) and myristicin, two natural substances that are known to stimulate contractions of the uterus, there may be some truth to the anecdotal claims that parsley in a therapeutic dose may induce a menstrual period.
Like parsley, celery is known to contain apiol and has been claimed to have emmenagogic effects. In addition the parsley and celery, there are a number of other foods and herbs that herbalists have recommended as a natural way to bring on a menstrual period.
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