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It is quite natural to use a mixture of fertility drugs and surgery prior to beginning In Vitro Fertilization treatment. Drugs can help activate egg making for a woman who has erratic or no monthly ovulation, that is when an egg is produced and released every month.

While pregnancy is achievable just by employing fertility drugs, mixing treatments such as Intrauterine Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization is quite normal. In All Probability the most widely used fertility drug these days, and the oldest, is Clomid or to give it the proper name Clomiphene Citrate. It is used to activate the brain to develop more estrogen which helps to trigger the woman’s ovaries into growing more eggs.

Surgical procedures used to be common when In Vitro Fertilization and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection treatments were less advanced and accessible, but an operation can still assist infertility in many cases. Blocked tubes, can be a result of inflammation and scarring as a consequence of infections such as chlamydia, for example. There are other instances where surgery is the best course of action, with situations such as Endometriosis, Fibroids and other problems that affect the womb or fallopian tubes. Fortunately, these days keyhole surgery is the norm and your physician at the fertility clinic will be the easiest individual to direct you on available courses of action.

Drugs are not as essential in the treatment of male infertility as they are in female treatment. Although, there are particular times where drugs are given to men to assist with infertility troubles. Antibiotics are used to address infection or inflammation and now and then vitamins C & E are given to help improve sperm movement but the there is still no practical evidence that this works. If you can’t produce any sperm, for instance (you may have had a vasectomy or a failed reversal) a small surgical procedure known as surgical sperm recovery can be conducted to remove the sperm from the Epididymis (where sperm are made) or the testicles.

Fertility Drugs injected to activate ovulation do improve your chances of a multiple pregnancy and birth of twins, triplets or more. Many doctors will in reality cancel a cycle if fertility drugs are being used in conjunction with Intrauterine Insemination as it raises the likeliness of multiple births if a large number of egg sacks are produced. This procedure of reducing the chances of multiple births is assisted by replacing one or two embryos when using In Vitro Fertilization intervention.

Because of the complexity of this subject, this article is only able to give a very short overview of the drugs and surgery available. Your local fertility clinic will be in a position to go into much more depth on the choices available with fertility drugs and surgery.

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