Regular periods don't guarantee ovulation or fertility. The speaker explains why people with normal cycles still struggle to conceive: blocked fallopian tubes, fibroids, cysts, a misshapen uterus, scar tissue, and inadequate progesterone can all prevent pregnancy despite predictable bleeding.
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I have regular periods. Why can't I get pregnant? We're gonna talk about 3 reasons that if you have regular periods, why you might not be able to get pregnant. If you have regular periods, that does not necessarily mean that you are ovulating regularly. First step is track your ovulation. It's important to verify via ovulation predictor strips that you are actually getting a peak and that you are for sure ovulating. The second thing that I would tell you to investigate is structural issues to your uterus and your anatomy in general. Things like blocked tubes. You can be having a regular cycle and still have a blocked tube. You want to make sure that your tubes are open, and that can be done with a simple outpatient procedure. Sometimes there is a misshapen uterus. If you're experiencing secondary infertility, there's some scar tissue that can happen. You want to make sure that your cervix is open, that your tubes are open, that your uterus is not having any irregularity. Normally, if you're extensively having periods and a lot of pain, you're going to have fibroids. It could also be a cyst or something of that nature. If your cycles are regular and you can't get pregnant, is progesterone— you want to make sure that you get your progesterone checked and that the levels are optimal for