What You Need to Know About Endometriosis Awareness This March
Consider waking up every day feeling pain all over yet hearing people say, “Just a bad period.” For millions of women and those afflicted around the world, this is the life of an endometriosis sufferer: A greatly misunderstood disease, often dismissed and severely underdiagnosed, it affects an estimated one in ten women. Endometriosis Awareness Month […]
Endometriosis Awareness Month: Know the Facts to Overcome the Obstacle
Endometriosis impacts 10 percent of women and up to 50% of women experiencing infertility. It makes sense, then, that Dr. Mark Rispler frequently sees patients worried that endometriosis will ruin their chances for getting pregnant. It’s true that endometriosis can build up and block fallopian tubes, or affect an embryo’s ability to implant. The truth, […]
The elusive missed period: When is it time to call a fertility specialist?
For years you’ve lived with the expectation that missing a period would signal pregnancy, and when you are ready, the body will respond. Dr. Mark Rispler with Innovative Fertility Center understands the frustration that women feel when the reproductive system fails them, and plans to get pregnant get waylaid by infertility. “Female infertility can feel […]