Lots of women trying to become pregnant for the first time panic if their periods last for even three or four months. But the standard sign of infertility is unsuccessful conception after 12 months of unprotected intercourse. At that point, a couple should seek a exhaustive examination that is generally consists of menstrual and pregnancy history, ovulation tests, semen analysis, and sometimes a laparoscopy to detect endometriosis or pelvic adhesions. Such testing determines the causes of infertility in 60 to 80 % of all couples.
Fertility medications, forms of hormone treatment, are designed to fraud the ovaries into producing eggs, at times many eggs in a single cycle, by stimulating the woman's hormones to doperform} their appointed jobs more efficiently or by replacing them with "outside" hormones.