When you’re pregnant, staying healthy becomes about more than maintaining your personal wellness. During pregnancy, you’re also giving your growing baby the best start in life by maintaining healthy habits. If you’re pregnant or considering conceiving, you’ve likely heard about prenatal vitamins. Discover what you need to know about taking prenatal vitamins before and during pregnancy. What…
Having endometriosis can mean you experience chronic pain that impacts multiple aspects of your life. Finding a treatment that relieves your pain and other symptoms helps you reclaim your quality of life. If you have endometriosis, a hysterectomy is one of several possible treatment options that offer pain relief. Find out if a hysterectomy or another treatment…
After you become pregnant, you’re suddenly not only watching your own health, but you’re also in charge of your unborn baby’s health. For the nine months you’re pregnant, every choice you make not only impacts your own health, but it’s also an important part of your child’s immediate growth and development. As part of our pregnancy…
After going through menopause, you might find yourself experiencing a number of unwanted changes to your physical and mental health. These changes can impact a variety of areas of your life, from your physical comfort to your work life and personal relationships. If you’d like to recapture the way you felt before menopause, bioidentical hormone replacement…
Some infections and diseases get transmitted through means like sneezing on someone or touching an object contaminated with germs. Other infections, known as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are transmitted by sexual contact with another person. If you’re diagnosed with an STD, you can transmit it to another person by engaging in sexual contact again too quickly.…
If you suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding, it can be inconvenient, painful, and lead to medical problems like anemia. The wonderful news is, that in addition to being a convenient and highly effective form of birth control, an IUD can also provide relief from heavy periods. Along with preventing pregnancy, progesterone-releasing IUDs have the added benefit…
Whether you feel great or have some concerns about your health, actively taking charge of your wellness is the best way to get or stay healthy. One of the easiest ways to take care of your physical and overall health is by attending your annual exam at The Ob-Gyn Center, Northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our OB/GYNs Anita…
Diet and exercise can help you lose weight, reduce your body fat, and improve your overall health. However, even a perfectly healthy lifestyle won’t allow you to spot-reduce fat from specific areas of your body. When certain pockets of fat stick to your body even with lifestyle changes and weight loss, it might be time…
Sexual intercourse is usually considered a pleasurable act, but for some women, having intercourse can regularly bring physical pain. Experiencing pain during sexual intercourse might make you feel embarrassed, leave you physically unable to have intercourse, or impact your relationship. OB/GYNs Anita Gondy, MD, and Saovaros V. Michaels, MD, from The Ob-Gyn Center, Northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada, want…
Have you been feeling more tired than normal or having unusual physical symptoms with no clear cause? Sometimes your physical symptoms aren’t yet a sign of illness, and instead, they can be your body working to tell you about imbalances or problems that can hurt your overall wellness down the line. An unbalanced diet and…