Acupunture increases IVF success rates (two studies)

[Bloom]

Thanks Christy and Oscaroscar for the reccomendations. I'm on the westside and was thinking about Beau at Indooroopilly as I found him on the web. I am tossing up between him and a clinic in Paddington. I will ask my IVF nurses as well if they have any recommendations.

[tiggerlinda]

Ruth sweet I go to beau and love him will still be doing so through the PG. He is reallly nice and supportive

[Tam83]

Thanks every1 for your fast replies. I think I will change to Rozelle. The prices dont change at the place I'm going to its the same every week, I just cant afford that. I will keep you updated. I have already paid for a months worth of TCM as thats how they operate at this centre so it was $450 for them so I will have to finish this month at Chatswood and then try Rozelle.

[butterfly_warrior]

The best advice I can give at this point is to make an appointment at Rozelle now. They usually are fairly heavily booked, and it may take about 3-4 weeks to be able to get in for your first appointment. It could just be that my work times and travel times restrict me to certain hard to get hours, but it's certainly not going to hurt to get booked in early.

BW

[ec_squared]

Hi Tam88,

I paid $110 initial consultation but they go through everything with you and place you on a diet if you are not eating right. I have been on the diet for 2 weeks now... its a welcomed healthy change! Subsequent visits are $60, I am going weekly and loving it. I fall asleep each time.

Good Luck with it!

BTW, watch the herbs, my docs says no herbs as they may interfer with the IVF/ICSI cycle.

El

[Tam83]

Hi ec_squared.

Thanks for the info. I'm not going down the IVF path yet but thanks for the heads up about the herbs.

I am going to change to Rozelle after I finish this moths worth of TCM i brought other wise it will be a waste of money.

Maybe I might run into you there. Thanks again

[nanananny]

So b_w would you say you're a bit of an acupuncture success story?

We're thinking of trying this

[butterfly_warrior]

Difficult to answer that question, futuremum!

Some would point to the fact that it took 18 months of IVF to fall pregnant, and that the acupuncture didn't really do anything to help things before we started IVF.

Others would look at the fact that we had 5 embryo transfers and a total of 4 pregnancies and a LOT of problems to overcome, but we got there. We're dealing with severe male factor infertility plus female factor infertility with one definite and two possible disorders contributing to make conception difficult and miscarriage more likely.

I do know that without the sanity-saving effects of acupuncture I'd have thrown in the towel a long time ago and wouldn't be where I am today, so I guess you can write it up as an acupuncture success, even if it did nothing to help the physical process.

BW

[nanananny]

Hmmm haven't done much about making an appointment yet DH rang one place and that's as far as we got

Thanks for answering, I did read your reply then I got distracted.