Can You Prevent Gestational Diabetes, and Does It Go Away?
You cannot guarantee prevention, but you can meaningfully lower your risk of gestational diabetes by entering pregnancy near a healthy weight, staying physically active…
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The Placenta: When It Forms, When It Takes Over and What It Does
The placenta starts forming at implantation, roughly a week after fertilization, and gradually takes over the pregnancy-sustaining hormone work of the corpus luteum by…
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Does Endometriosis Go Away? What Happens Over Time, After Menopause and with Treatment
Endometriosis rarely goes away on its own. It is a long-term condition driven largely by estrogen, so symptoms often settle after menopause, when estrogen…
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Why Mammogram Results Can Take Two Weeks: What Happens Between the Scan and the Letter
Mammogram results often take up to two weeks because screening images are interpreted after your visit by a radiologist — sometimes two, working independently…
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Fibroids, Weight Gain and Bloating: Why It Happens and What Treatment Can Change
Fibroids can add weight directly, but usually only when they are large. Most fibroids are small and add very little, while a very large…
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Can You Choose the Baby’s Sex with IVF? The Law in the UK, EU and Turkey
Technically, yes: embryo testing during IVF can reveal whether an embryo carries XX or XY chromosomes. Legally, in the UK, across the EU and…
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Can Endometriosis Cause Cancer, or Be Life-Threatening?
Endometriosis is not cancer, and it does not turn into cancer in the vast majority of people who have it. Large population studies show…
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Endometriosis Surgery Recovery: Shoulder Pain, Bloating and the Return to Work and Exercise
Endometriosis surgery recovery usually follows a laparoscopy done under general anesthesia. Shoulder pain and bloating in the first day or two come mainly from…
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Getting Pregnant with Endometriosis: Your Chances, Treatment Options and IVF
Yes, many people with endometriosis get pregnant, often without treatment. The condition does make conception harder for some: about one-third to one-half of those…
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Endometriosis and Weight Gain: What Is Actually Going on
Endometriosis does not directly cause the body to store fat, but it can make you look and feel heavier. Painful bloating (often called endo…
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After a Failed IVF Cycle: What Happens to Your Body and What Comes Next
After a failed IVF cycle, the hormones used to stimulate the ovaries and support the uterine lining clear over days, so bloating, breast tenderness,…
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Why Mammogram Results Can Take Two Weeks: What Happens Between the Scan and the Letter
Mammogram results often take up to two weeks because the images are not read in the room where they are taken. In many screening…
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Endometriosis Symptoms: The Signs Too Often Dismissed — Explained
Endometriosis symptoms most often include pelvic pain that worsens around periods, pain during or after sex, painful bowel movements or urination during menstruation, heavy…
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Perimenopause Symptoms: The Decade Nobody Prepares You For
Perimenopause is the hormonal transition before menopause, usually beginning in the mid-40s and lasting about four years, though it can start in the late…
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Ovulation Symptoms: How Your Body Signals Its Most Fertile Days
Common ovulation symptoms include clear, stretchy cervical mucus that resembles raw egg white, a one-sided lower-belly twinge called mittelschmerz, a small rise in resting…
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PMS Symptoms: Why They Happen and What Evidence Says Helps
PMS symptoms — bloating, breast tenderness, irritability, fatigue, and mood changes among them — appear in the one to two weeks before a period,…
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Menopause Symptoms: What’s Common, What’s Treatable, What to Ask
Common menopause symptoms include irregular periods, hot flashes, night sweats, disrupted sleep, mood changes, brain fog, and vaginal dryness. Most begin during perimenopause, often…
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Low Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: Why It Happens, What Is Normal and When to Call Your Midwife
Low blood pressure in pregnancy is common and usually harmless. Blood pressure naturally falls during the first and second trimesters as pregnancy hormones relax…
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