What Is PCOS and How Does It Affect Female Fertility?
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a female reproductive disease that is related to the secretion and presence of certain hormones in the female body, which in turn cause certain body function complications. A PCOS sufferer tends to have too many androgens (male hormones) in the body, which leads to various different and occasionally traumatic symptoms. There is also an increased level of luteinizing hormone (LH), which is a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates ovulation. The excess of these hormones causes problems with the ovulation process. What basically happens is that, when one of the ovaries is supposed to rupture and release an egg for fertilization, it fails to do so. In short, a woman with PCOS does not ovulate. The rupture on the ovary where the egg should have been released becomes a fluid filled sac, and it is this fluid filled sac that is referred to as a cyst. This happens month after month, and no eggs are released. A number of cysts then develop, wh
