Prolactin -- A fertility remedy

There was a point in my our marriage that my wife and I didn't think we were going to have kids. It's true that infertility is a common fear in newly married couples, but after three years of trying we decided to move from passively nervous to actively upset. Our frustration caused us to begin to ask the hard questions about what causes infertility and which one of, if not both of us were the source of this infertility.

Early on in our research we came across a condition called high prolactin or otherwise known as Hyperprolactinemia. High prolactin is involved with 1/3 of infertility cases and because it is very treatable, my wife and I hoped this was the root to our problems. Prolactin is an important hormone breast milk regulation. Higher amounts of prolactin trick the woman's body into thinking that it is at a breast feeding stage causing the woman not to ovulate. Higher prolactin levels will also cause the woman to become less interested sexual relations, which severely reduces already diminishing chances of pregnancy. Men also can suffer from high prolactin levels, causing libido issues.

When my wife found out that it was in fact her higher levels of prolactin we immediately sought treatment. She was put on a course of Bromocriptine and withing 6 weeks she began to ovulate. It wasn't soon after that she became pregnant. Now we have three beautiful children. Despite our happy ending we could have circumvented all the frustration from the beginning if we had done our research and stayed informed of fertility issues.