Unexplained Infertility

Have you ever noticed how often clinicians use descriptions as if they were a diagnosis? Some common examples are Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Idiopathic Hypertension. These say nothing about the cause of the condition and most are probably a mixture of conditions that share common symptoms. Unexplained Infertility has become another of these meaningless descriptions. It is the equivalent of a “medical out basket”; a way of clearing the desk without solving the problem.

I am alarmed by the number of couples who are given the description of Unexplained Infertility, who are nevertheless offered In Vitro Fertilization or some other invasive procedure. This is the equivalent of deciding to re-wire your whole house because you don’t know what is causing the refrigerator to short out. You just wouldn’t accept this for your house. You would consider the cost to be outlandish. You would consider that the electrician was incompetent because he was unable to identify a simple fault. You would also probably go through the house yourself, testing out various appliances and working out which combinations of power points or appliances caused problems. So why do so many couples give in to the ridiculous? More...


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Article by Dr Judy Ford