Illegal drugs can have a number of affects on your health and on your life.  In addition to the common types of problems associated with illegal drugs, such as the destruction of brain cells, addiction, heart and lung damage, and mental difficulties, illegal drugs can have an affect on your fertility.

Use of heroin, for example can cause a variety of fertility problems.  Heroin can cause a disturbance in a woman’s menstrual cycle, and therefore affect her fertility.  In men, use of heroin can lead to impotence.  For both men and women, other side effects of heroin such as a higher risk of contracting STDs and a reduced immune system can all lead to infertility.

Use of cocaine can also cause fertility problems.  In men, the use of cocaine can lead to a low sperm count.  Longer-term use of cocaine can cause problems with low sperm motility, as well.  For women, cocaine can also affect the menstrual cycle, just as heroin does.  Cocaine use in women can also lead to abnormalities in the fallopian tubes, also causing problems with fertility.

Illegal steroids can also affect fertility.  For men, steroids have been known to cause impotence.  In addition, they can affect sexual performance.  Steroids also can reduce the specific hormones that help with sperm production, as well.  In women, steroids can lead to annovulation, in which the woman does not ovulate at all, making pregnancy impossible.

Even marijuana can affect fertility.  For women, using marijuana can cause difficulties with ovulation.  By preventing ovulation or making it more sporadic, marijuana can make it extremely difficult for a woman to conceive.  For men, there is some research that suggests that marijuana use can cause a low sperm count, as well.

In addition, there are other problems that illegal drug use can create in terms of fertility.  The impaired judgment that often accompanies illegal drug use can lead to injuries that affect fertility.  A weakened immune system can make a person more susceptible to a disease that would affect fertility, such as PID (pelvic inflammatory disease).  If you do conceive while taking illegal drugs, they can have any number of horrible and even deadly affects on your baby as she develops in your womb.

Ultimately, illegal drug use can severely affect your fertility.

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