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Infertility Treatment

Melissa — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:34:49 +0000

Getting helped through infertility treatment

Are you having problems with getting pregnant? Have you been trying for so long to get pregnant but seemed to be unsuccessful? If you feel that you are having fertility problems you should go to a fertility specialist and have yourself checked.

Though many couples have an easy time of getting pregnant, there are some couples who are not that blessed. Infertility is common nowadays. Many couples are undergoing fertility problems. Fortunately, with the advance technology of modern medicine there are infertility treatments available. A discussion with your doctor will aide you in what infertility treatment you should have.

Deciding what infertility treatment is for you

As there are many infertility treatment available, deciding which one is best or is not for you can be overwhelming. To make the right decision for your infertility treatment it is best that you should know as much as you can about your options will be a great help.

You should get all the information you need to know on the kinds of infertility treatment there is. A quick search over the internet will help you understand what there is to know about the treatments. It will help you get a better understanding about the procedures when the doctor will discuss it with you. You would want to look up and gather information about infertility medications like progesterone and clomid, ART (assisted reproductive technologies) like IVF, non-medical interventions, male factor infertility treatments such as ICSIS and IUI and many more.

What are the infertility treatment options

A specific infertility treatment is given to couples depending on the physical reason why they are having difficulties of getting pregnant. A fertility specialist will be able to help couples who are undergoing this kind of problem. Although some couples might want to try the more natural approach, some others would want to go directly to a medical practitioner. There are a lot of infertility treatment options. But all are given or administered depending on the reason or causes of infertility.

Some couples are only given fertility drugs or surgery. These two treatments are one of the most effective treatments of infertility (but as we say it depends on the cause of infertility). These are the most common treatments given to couples. But not all can just be treated with fertility drugs and surgery. Some couples are referred to specialists who handle assisted reproductive technologies. IUI, IVF, ICSI, door sperm, egg donation are just some of these technologies that can help treat infertility. Some of the couples opt for adoption and surrogacy. It is better to consult a specialist for further information about these treatment options.

Infertility Statistics

Mary White — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:45:32 +0000

Couples who are going through infertility problems often feel alone in their struggle. They see other people with their babies and wonder why it’s not them. They forget that there are other people in the world that are going through the same things they are going through.

There are about 7.3 million women in this country alone between the ages of 15 and 44 who have an impaired ability to have children. Many of these women don’t even know that they have a problem until they try to start a family

Some women have gotten pregnant with issues like polycystic ovarian syndrome and the diagnosis didn’t come until after they had kids. But, most often this is not the case. There are many other couples who have gone through fertility treatments. Often when seeing the happy couples with their babies, infertile couples do not contemplate whether that parent had to receive some sort of infertility treatment in order to conceive.

In 2002 11.9% or 7.3 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 years of age have received some sort of infertility services. 6.1% have received professional advice. 5.5% of women have received some sort of medical help to prevent a miscarriage. 4.8% have undergone a fertility test. 3.8% of women have received ovulation drugs. And 1.1% of women have received artificial insemination. 11.8% of women between the ages of 15 and 44 years of age have impaired fecundity which means they not only have problems getting pregnant, they have problems carrying a baby to term.

It is commonly known that as women age their ability to become pregnant decreases with the loss of their eggs. In fact, the percent of childless women who have ever received any infertility service between the ages of 35 and 39 years of age is 15.2%. Childless women who have received any infertility service between the ages of 30 and 34 years of ages was 17.3% and women between the ages of 15 and 29 was only 2.9%.

The percent of married childless women between the ages of 15 and 44 years of age are infertile by these ages. 27.4% of women are infertile by the ages of 40 and 44. 22.6% of women are infertile by 35 and 39 years of age. 16.9% of women are infertile by the ages of 30 and 34. And 11% of married women are infertile by the ages of 15 and 29.

But just because there are problems getting or maintaining a pregnancy, that does not mean that it is impossible. At age 31, the percentage of live births after undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) which is a very affective fertility treatment was about 38%. By age 39, the percentage of live births was around 22%. But after age 43, the percentage of live births drops to less than 10%. Women have also used an egg donor.

Even though IVF success was less than 10% at age 40 using the mother’s own eggs, women who used an egg donor from a much younger women had a success rate of about 45%. It is an even better rate than women using their own eggs in their early 30s.

Infertility Treatment

Mary White — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:11:10 +0000

Both men and women suffer from infertility caused by various reasons. However, it’s important for both the sex to undergo treatment for this complicated issue. Various known and unknown factors cause infertility in women. These include diseases like endometriosis, diminished ovarian reserve, ovulation disorders, and low progesterone level. Low sperm count and low sperm motility, STD, injury or chronic diseases, sperm blockage and ageing are some of the reasons men for, which suffer.

Scheduled drugs and systematic treatment can cure most of the above mentioned infertility problems except ageing and chronic diseases, although these treatments are quite expensive and may have harmful side effects. Additional treatment may be required to cure the side effects. Treatments conducted through IVF or In Vitro Fertilization and ICSI or Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection is best among the other methods of infertility treatment. In this technique, the egg cells outside the womb are fertilized by the sperm and then transferred inside. This treatment is suggested when other techniques fail to give results. This technique is a hormonally controlled ovulation progression. In this treatment involves, the ova is removed from the female’s ovaries and helps the sperm to fertilize in a fluid medium. But this is not a normal process at all and involves excavation of the eggs from the ovary, fertilizing them in an outside laboratory and putting them back in the uterus. In the normal process, the human decides to pick the healthiest sperm for reproducing the egg but in the artificial process, the embryologist takes this decision. However, when he fails to pick the healthiest sperm and egg, it may cause the ill health of the child during birth and even later in life.

Some alternative techniques with a holistic approach are fast becoming popular in order to cure the problem of secondary infertility. These techniques are all the more preferred by people as these have less or no side effects at all.

The acupuncture method, for example, especially ear acupuncture or Auricular is very effective in cases where female infertility has been caused by some kind of malfunction of the ovary. The hormonal message that is transferred from brain to ovary is the most beneficial result received from this technique. In accordance to the investigative trials, those women who have received acupuncture treatment for about 30 times within a time period of 3 months have shown good results. Those female who underwent hormonal therapy along with it suffered from side effects.

In the alternative treatment techniques, diet and lifestyle changes are given a lot of importance. Regular intake of such things that contain caffeine like coffee, chocolate, cocoa, green tea (containing caffeine), black tea and colored soft drinks which has harmful effects on conception is discouraged. According to a study, one and a half cup of coffee for a woman who is trying for pregnancy is sure to delay her conception. Thus coffee is a strictly a no-no for patients suffering from infertility.

Diets that include fish contaminated with PCB or Polychlorinated Biphenyls are also believed to be a cause for substantial reduction in the ability to become pregnant. According to one study, women who had more than one meal containing fish contaminated with PCBs (procured from Lake Ontario), developed reduced fecundity within a month.

The best result for the treatment of infertility has been reported through the Chinese medicines, acupuncture and of course, the holistic approach. The holistic approach reaches to the depth of the problem and only then delivers physical, spiritual as well as emotional treatment, rather than only investigating the organs. On the other side, the conventional approach to the problem of infertility fails to successfully detect and remove the real causes and moreover, causes side effects. The holistic approach suggests a natural remedy and a way of life that can really solve the problem as soon as the real cause is determined.

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