During the last decade, fertility treatments for women have become more and more efficient and readily available. I believe that there is still a lot of room for improvement and many scientific and technological breakthroughs ready to happen. In opposition to what things were like half a century ago when almost any women who had any kind of fertility problems would have no hope of ever getting pregnant, today’s treatments seem to have spectacular results. Some women are still expecting a lot from holistic medicine, but I believe that although alternative treatments should be studied further and encouraged, main stream scientific medicine should be the first thing that any woman with fertility issues should try.
1. Clomiphene. This is a drug that works by stimulating your brain to produce eggs for ovulation. Actually, more specifically, it stimulates your pituitary glands which in turn produces a certain type of hormones that trigger ovulation. Ovulation occurs when the ovaries produce mature eggs and than release them to the Fallopian Tubes. These drugs help women with irregular cycle because at the end of the drug cycle, the hypothalamus is instructed to start this whole ovulation process within the next day. Unfortunately, this drug is been known to cause side effects which include stomach pains, ovaries enlargement, mood swings, and even in some cases increase the risk of breast or ovarian cancer. On the other hand, a big percentage, 70 to 90 percent of women who take this drug will ovulate and almost 45 per cent will get pregnant according to some studies. All and all, Clomiphene is one of the most commonly used, and one of the most successful fertility treatments for women.
2. Human Menopausal Gonadotropin. This drug contains follicle stimulating hormone. This hormone is extracted from the donor urine of postmenopausal women. It works by stimulating the ovaries to create eggs. After a short period of injection based treatment, seven to twelve days, the woman is injected with another drug, human chorionic genadotropin which stimulate the ovaries to release the egg in the Fallopian tubes. This treatment is indicated in general for women who don’t respond to Clomiphene. There are certain risks involved with using this drug. One of the most significant is hyper stimulated ovaries, which can occur in almost 5 per cent of cases, and is a possibly fatal condition. This condition manifests itself by swelling f the ovaries which produce a very large number of eggs, which can lead to leaking in the abdominal cavity. The symptoms that precede this condition are: severe pelvic pain, vomiting and nausea. The use of this drug can also lead very likely to multiple pregnancies, in about 20 per cent of cases. On the other hand, despite its side effects, it is one of the most effective fertility treatments for women.
3. Bromocriptine. One of the major issues for women who have irregular ovulations can be traced to problems with the pituitary gland. This gland is responsible for producing a number of hormones, one of which is called prolactin, which acts as an inhibitor for ovulation and also reduces estrogen levels, when in excess. The excess of this hormone can be traced to benign tumors on the pituitary gland which are pretty common. The drug reduces the pituitary gland’s secretion of prolactin, which leads to a normal ovulation. The drug can be taken orally or as a vaginal pill. For this specific problem of pituitary abnormality, this is one of the most effective fertility treatments for women. 90 per cent of women who have this particular problem and take the drug on a regular will ovulate normally. The percentage of women who get pregnant after this treatment varies from 65 to 85 per cent. The side effects of this treatment include dizziness, fever, low blood pressure and headaches.
Many fertility treatments for women are getting to be incredibly effective. Some clinical trials indicate that for almost all problems of fertility there is a good chance of getting pregnant. At the same time, miracle drugs, that are said to solve any problem, and have not been clinically tested can be very dangerous, so no matter how much you want a baby, you shouldn’t be very gullible, and risk your own health. Sooner or later, I believe that fertility treatments will become close to a hundred per cent effective for many conditions. Of course there will still be some problems that will be impossible to fix in the near future, but for this, you should consider adoption, which many people find just as fulfilling. At the same time, you should always consider the risks you are taking, because many fertility treatments have serious side effects.