What causes empty follicles?

The lack of ovulation makes many female friends who are preparing for pregnancy or planning to have a baby feel overwhelmed or even desperate. Anovulation is a medical condition that is mostly treatable. Is it possible to get pregnant if you have follicles but don’t ovulate?

Anovulation makes many female friends who are preparing for pregnancy or even planning to have a baby feel overwhelmed or even desperate. Anovulation is a disease that can be treated for the most part. Is it possible to get pregnant if you have follicles but don't ovulate? A follicle is a cell in the ovarian cortex formed by an oocyte or many other small egg cells around it. The most common clinical cases are follicular hypoplasia or absence of follicle development. So what should we do?

Whether the growth rate and extent of the follicles are normal or not determines whether they can discharge mature eggs. Only when the follicles are fully developed and function well can they release mature and healthy eggs. If the follicles do not develop well, ovulation will not occur normally or the quality of the eggs released will be poor. The absence of ovulation in follicles is mostly related to endocrine disorders, poor ovarian function, etc., and is a common infertility syndrome. Generally, the follicles in a woman's ovaries develop slowly. After countless screenings, one of the follicles develops into a mature follicle. After that, this mature follicle undergoes the process of ovulation and corpus luteum formation.

There are many reasons for anovulation of the ovaries, such as anovulation of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and ovaries, abnormal anovulation of the central nervous system, polycystic ovary syndrome, luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome, other endocrine systems, and some systemic diseases (such as severe malnutrition), all of which can affect normal ovarian ovulation and lead to infertility. Finding out the cause and treating it accordingly is the key.

Symptoms of ovulation failure

The symptom of anovulation is a disease medically known as luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome (LUFS). The symptoms of ovarian follicles without ovulation vary depending on the patient's physical condition. The treatment and conditioning methods for different patients are different. You may wish to understand them clearly before taking the right medication.

1. Deficiency of essence

A more obvious symptom of patients with asthenia and spermatorrhea is that they cannot conceive for a long time after marriage, and their skin color is dull and lifeless; they often experience symptoms such as soreness in the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, scanty menstruation, and lack of sexual desire. If the patient is suffering from kidney yang deficiency, he or she may be accompanied by chills, cold limbs, cold pain in the lower abdomen during menstruation, and a thin white tongue coating. If the patient is suffering from kidney yin deficiency, he or she will be thin, often feel strange, irritable, dry mouth and tongue.

2. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type

Patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type are also unable to conceive for a long time after marriage, and are often depressed or irritable. Before menstruation, there will be bloating and pain in the ribs or stomach. During menstruation, the menstrual blood will be purple and black with clots, and the stomach will be bloated and painful.

3. Damp-heat stasis type

Patients with damp-heat and blood stasis type also suffer from infertility. They may be infertile for a long time after marriage. Before and during menstruation, they will experience pain and burning sensation in the lower abdomen; or they may also experience pain in the lower abdomen at other times, which will worsen during menstruation. The amount of leucorrhea is excessive and thick, and the urine is yellow.

In addition, there are symptoms of anovulation and no abnormalities in the menstrual cycle and menstrual volume, so this is often diagnosed by doctors as unexplained infertility. When the above symptoms appear, do not panic, maintain a happy mood, and actively cooperate with treatment. The chances of successfully conceiving a baby after recovery are still very high.

Luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome, endocrine system, and systemic diseases may affect the normal ovulation of the ovaries and lead to infertility symptoms. Therefore, for patients, it is most important to detect the cause of the disease in time and treat it accordingly.