So do you guys (the none of you who are reading this except Sandy, but it makes me feel better to believe you are out there) believe that stress affects fertility? Because if it does, I haven't got a hope. I am working with a bunch of fuckwits at the moment, and I seem to be unable to improve things. I've tried all different ways to get them to listen to me that we are running this project all wrong, but all I get back is "yes thalia, we know you feel that way, now get on with it." The annoying thing is that I didn't really want to do this project in the first place, but now I've signed up I can't really sign off.
My fertility doc thinks stress is a problem for me. Any help on how to handle this?
No, I don't believe stress effects fertility, not in this case. Why? Because if stress were really bad on fertility, no rape victim would ever get pregnant, and neither would any infertile.
Now, stress in general...I think we all need allt he help we can get!
Posted by: Orodemniades | Tuesday, 08 March 2005 at 21:49
But couldn't it be that stress isn't a knock-out, but it does lower your probability of success. So say your average 20 year old has a 90% chance of sperm meets egg, then in 90% of those instances fertilisation occurs, then in 90% of those instances the egg starts growing normally, and in 80% of those cases the egg implants etc...and that stress reduces all those percentages by 1%.
Then for your average 38 year-old all those percentages are substantially lower, and the stress factor perhaps higher?
So I quite see that stress cannot be a rule-out, but that it doesn't help, and possibly hinders. What do you think?
Posted by: Thalia | Wednesday, 09 March 2005 at 15:31