TREATMENTS FOR INFERTILITY

Some Options Are:

• For ovulatory dysfunction, many women begin treatment with medication to over stimulate the ovaries to ovulate.
• Drugs like Clomiphene are used which cause the woman to superovulate. Timed intercourse is recommended for 5 to 10 days after treatment.
• Multiple births are a risk factor in this treatment as more than one egg is released.
• For tubal occlusions, there are procedures which may be performed to repair the occlusion, but these procedures run the risk of causing scar tissue as well.
• IVF – In vitro fertilization – This procedure is very costly and time consuming for the infertile couple.
  
  
  
  
• It begins with daily injections of gonadotropins to stimulate the ovaries to ovulate many oocytes, these oocytes are then harvested from the woman and are either exposed to sperm cells isolated from the man for natural penetration by the sperm, or a single “perfect” sperm is injected directly into the oocyte.
• The fertilized egg is then incubated for 3 – 5 days and if development is proceeding normally, is implanted into the woman’s uterus.
• ICSI – introcytoplasmic sperm injection – The same procedure as IVF except the sperm cell is taken directly from the testes of the male Natural Family Planning
  
  
  
  
• IUI – intrauterine injection – for men with a semen abnormality IUI may be performed.
• It involves collecting a sample of semen from the man, and separating the normal, high quality sperm from the sample, then these selected sperm are then injected directly into the uterus of the woman around the time of ovulation
  
  
  
  
• GIFT – Gamete intra fallopian transfer – A Harvested oocyte, as well as washed sperm (pre selected healthy motile sperm), are combined in a pipette and introduced surgically into the fallopian tube.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• FET- Frozen embryo transfer – The clients must go through IVF treatment, and they have the option of having some of the embryo’s which were not transferred initially frozen for up to 3 years.
  
  
  
  
  
• If these treatments are unsuccessful, or unavailable to the infertile couple they may wish to look into donor eggs, donor sperm, surrogacy, or adoption