Accupuncture during IVF

[Willow]

Yep, me!!

I had read about a study (that coincidently my best friend was a part of) that was done at Repromed in SA about accupuncture treatment during IVF cycles and its affect on pregnancy outcomes and the findings were enough for me to give it a go.

My best friend had three cycles, she had accupuncture on the third cycle as part of the study and fell prg with twins.

Basically I found someone here in Sydney who was aware of the study and went to see him.

I had a few sessions early on (this was mainly for stress management because our cycle didn't get off to a good start and emotionally and mentally I was about to snap) and then had some intensive sessions around the time we were stimming (to stimulate the ovaries etc) and then had two sessions at the time of transfer - one as close as possible to the transfer time (my transfer was booked at 7am in the morning and had to travel 1.5 hours to get there so a session that morning was impossible. We did ours really late in the afternoon of the day before) and then another one straight after the transfer.

I can't tell you if it worked or not but I'm definately pregnant!

I continued to have weekly then fortnightly sessions for the first trimester and part of the second trimester, but this was to support the pregnancy (we lost our second baby at 12 weeks to m/c) rather than anything to do with the IVF treatment.

Eventually I stopped going all together once the pregnancy was well established because it is expensive after a while.

I know there are lots of other girls on BB who've used acpuncuture with IVF and I'm sure they'll post too.

Good luck!!