Ovarian Cysts and Fertility - 6 Reasons Why You Should Say No to Conventional Treatment
Ovarian cysts are sacs containing fluid or semi-solid materials that develop in or on the ovary. These cysts are quite common in women who are in their reproductive years but tend to resolve by themselves naturally without any medical intervention.
Sometimes some cysts don’t resolve naturally as expected and instead continue to grow and get bigger. It may eventually get to a stage where it begins to cause the woman unbearable pain.
Ovarian cysts, especially functional ovarian cyst (not polycystic ovary syndrome) don’t in themselves affect your fertility, what makes you infertile is the treatment your doctor is likely to prescribe for you.
The conventional treatment for ovarian cysts is the use of prescription oestrogen and progestin birth control pills, which stop the woman from ovulating. The thinking is that if the woman does not ovulate then she is unlikely to develop functional cysts.
If you say yes and accept the conventional treatment of using birth control pills as a form of treatment for your ovarian cysts then you are more or less making yourself infertile because if you dont ovulate, there is no way you could ever become pregnant.
The other way contraceptive pills work is by thickening the woman’s cervical mucus and making it sticky such that the sperm is unable to survive for long enough to fertilise her egg.
In a nutshell, the conventional treatment for ovarian cysts makes you infertile.
You have to understand that lack of oestrogen is not the reason why you have ovarian cysts in the first place; in fact, taking oestrogen causes your ovarian cyst to grow larger and faster and become even more painful.
Apart from that, using the pill has so many other side effects including:
1. Thinning the lining of the uterus making it unable to support a pregnancy.
2. Raising copper levels in the body. Excess copper can be toxic and has been associated with pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression.
3. Affecting a woman’s menstrual cycle so much that it can be months sometimes months ot even years before a menstrual cycle is resumed. In some cases, it never returns.
4. A higher occurrence of ectopic pregnancy in women who use the pill as compared to women who don’t.
5. Mineral and vitamin imbalances in the body
6. Lowered resistance to infections including genito-urinary and fungal infections.
There are so many more negative side effects of using the pill that it is almost impossible to discuss all of them here.
What you need to understand is that ovarian cysts occur very often in many women in their reproductive years but tend to resolve naturally. If they don’t then you need to look at alternative methods of treatments and avoid the use of contraceptive pills at all cost.