Acupunture for fertility
Woman who is trying
to get pregnant can have acupuncture as a supportive treatment along with
medicinal treatments. Acupuncture helps you get pregnant.
How it
helps:
The principle of acupuncture treatment is
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It increases blood flow in uterus which
may help with embryo implantation.
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It increases the quality of egg formation.
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It reduces stress and increase sleep quality
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It helps to balance
the female sex hormones secretion.
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Thus it helps in
fertility treatment anatomically.
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It balances the
endocrine system
When acupuncture is done:
1.
During the follicular
phase - day 5, 6, 7 or 8 of your menstrual cycle (day 1 being the first day of
heavy flow).
2.
The day before, day of
or day after ovulation (as indicated by your LH surge).
3.
During implantation
time (6 - 10 days after ovulation).
How many sessions:
For the fertility
treatments patients are asked to come daily for an hour session initially (for
almost 10-15 days). After 15 days of treatment generally they asked to come
once in a week or three to four hour-long
sessions in a month. It always depends upon the women condition, mode of
treatment and acupuncturist.
You can continue this supportive treatment till
your pregnancy test positive. I would recommend woman to go for acupuncture along
with IUI/ IVF treatment. Kindly do not do acupuncture after the embryo/
blastocyst transfer. Make it clear, this treatment helps you to maintain the
blood circulation in your body parts, prepare your body for the IUI/IVF, helps
to give positive result along with medicines
Procedure:
Acupuncture promotes the natural self-healing process by stimulating specific anatomic sites--commonly referred to as acu points.
The most common method used to stimulate acupoints is the insertion of fine, sterile needles into the skin.
Mostly the needles are contacted with skin for minimum of 20 minutes.
Then the acupuncturist swirl the needle or give slight impulse to make blood circulation faster
Few very small, short needles can be left in for a few days also.
Acupunture
with Chinese herbs
Acupuncture along
with Chinese herbs in infertility treatment can improve almost every cause of this obstacle. Infertility
caused by blocked Fallopian tubes is
usually very effectively treated with IVF. However Chinese clinics treat such
blockages with acupuncture and
with herbs taken both orally and as an enema. Foot patches will be given to detoxify the body before treatment.
Acupunture for PCOD/PCOS
Acupunture helps PCO patients to
ovulate eggs in ovulation days of menstrual cycle (14-16 day). It prevents cyst
formation. I personally tried acupuncture along with IUI treatment and got
pregnant. During this IUI treatment in scan review the gynecologist informed
one small new cyst is formed in that cycle. But with the help of acupuncture treatment
my cyst is cleared. This was proved in my next month scan review where no newly
cyst formed in my ovary. Thus it is boon for PCO patients.
Cost of Acupuncture treatment
It cost 200-500 INR
per session.
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