But this doesn’t suit everyone – for many, the expense, painful injections, synthetic hormones and the heartache of failed rounds can be too much to bear.
If you’ve been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, there is more in-depth testing that can be completed including investigating things such as Thrombophilias, Immune dysfunction, Antibodies, Infections, Sperm DNA fragmentation and Nutritional deficiencies.
If your specialist won’t investigate these issues and you aren’t comfortable with an unexplained diagnosis, change specialist. It is your money and your body.
Herbalists and Naturopaths who focus on fertility can be a great place to further your search and get to the root cause of what could be preventing you from falling pregnant.
In order to give yourself the best chance of IVF working the first time (a successful pregnancy and some spare high quality embryos in the freezer,) you want to first determine what your fertility issues are, so you can treat these prior to commencing IVF. The healthier you are, the healthier your eggs (and sperm) are.
At the completion of a thorough fertility investigation, a number of women will still receive an unexplained diagnosis and IVF may still work for them.
IVF is an amazing, magical science which is evidently giving women and couples the opportunity to have families which would not have been possible otherwise, however the term “unexplained infertility” is thrown around too often and far too many rounds of IVF are completed prior to investigating some of the more complex fertility issues.
Your fertility is yours and you don’t have to settle for an unexplained diagnosis after a routine blood test and an ultrasound.
Sara Laharnar is the owner of Tree of Vida Acupuncture, a women’s health clinic on the Mid North Coast close to Forster & Taree. She is a passionate acupuncturist/herbalist dedicated to women’s health, fertility and pregnancy support. You can follow Sara on Instagram and Facebook.
