“Patients that are suffering from infertility; they’re not suffering in silence, so they’re actually seeking out an evaluation from a fertility doctor such as myself,” said Dr. Laxmi Kondapalli, a leading fertility specialist at Rose Medical Center in Denver, who cites an increased number of men coming forward with infertility concerns as a possible reason for the drop. “We may be actually picking up more fertility than what existed because people weren’t having access to the tools.”