Millions of people around the world suffer from anxiety and depression. How they choose to deal with these problems tends to vary in accordance with how severe their symptoms are. The ideal situation would be getting professional medical care, and thus learning to deal with the symptoms. However, there are some people who instead turn to drugs and alcohol in an attempt to feel better.
These same people have been told since they were young that drugs can cause many problems, including infertility. Unfortunately, to those people who still were able to conceive, many babies are born each year with deformities or learning problems because of the negligence of their parents.
How is it possible that drug use can cause infertility issues? First of all, it is important to understand what the purpose of these drugs is. These drugs alter the body chemistry – particularly the brain chemistry, so that the things they perceive are not the same as what is actually there. For example, LSDs have the ability to make people hallucinate.
With all of this altering of the body chemistry, it only makes sense that infertility could happen in both women and in men. In the case of women, their ovulation cycles could be halted altogether, and it could trick the body into going into an early menopause. As for men, their body health is directly linked to their sperm production, which slows down considerably when they are on drugs.
Fortunately, some people have the support or the willpower to stop using the drugs, and they enter a rehabilitation facility. It is a process that could take years, but it also adds years to the person's life – a life that will have a far better quality. Once the initial rehabilitation process is over, many people start rebuilding other aspects of their life, including getting married and wanting to have children.
As healthy as these former drug addicts might be, there could still be issues that stop them from having children naturally. In order to assure the health of any child that the couple might have, it is important that all traces of the drug have left the system. Thus, if a person hopes to have children, it is best to wait until they are drug free for at least a year.
It is important to note that infertility does not happen just to people who were under the influence of drugs. It can happen to people who were born with, or who currently have, a medical condition. Generally, it can take up to a year of having unprotected sex before a couple conceives.
If, after that time, conception has not yet taken place, then it is time for the couple to go to a fertility clinic. At the clinic, both the male and the female can be tested to see what their chances of conceiving naturally are. The male's sperm count will be checked, and it will also be analyzed to see if it is formed correctly. Thanks to medical technology, the chances are much better that couples will eventually be able to conceive.
