What if we focused on treating the underlying causes of infertility instead of promoting IVF as a quick solution?
All Our Eggs in One IVF Basket
I can’t say exactly why, except that, when IVF was invented, all advancements in medicine regarding fertility and endocrinology practically stopped. All medical treatments and research put all their eggs in the basket of IVF.
Most likely, because of the appeal of a quick fix, thinking it would have better success rates than it did, and it was financially lucrative. For such a daunting medical issue, it gives the illusion of the path of least resistance.
Receiving the diagnosis of infertility is scary because it isn’t really a diagnosis. It is a symptom of many other health conditions adding up so that a man and a woman together can’t conceive. Rarely is it just one issue, like anovulation. It is unique for each couple and even individual.
Unfortunately, approximately 15-30 percent of couples are given the diagnosis of “unexplained infertility” and use that as a literal medical “diagnosis” to justify IVF. Doctors are essentially admitting they cannot figure out the issue, so the couple should just pay an exorbitant amount of money to the doctor to jump to IVF after only trying the basic, nearly primitive “treatments” like artificial insemination, which boasts a 0-10 percent success rate.
Leaving Couples Broke and Hopeless
As a restorative reproductive medicine provider, I often see couples who have already tried and failed intrauterine insemination (IUI) and who don’t want to do IVF or who have failed IVF. They come to me feeling physically broken, and they walked out of the fertility clinic more emotionally broken than when they started their conception journey.
They blame themselves for their infertility since the doctors “can’t find anything wrong,” even with years of searching.
[READ:[READ:Fertility Doctors Refused To Treat Me Holistically Because IVF Is Their Cash Cow]The luckier couples I see are the ones who haven’t already lost embryos or tens of thousands of dollars. The less fortunate ones are often so blinded by their desperation that they have let IVF doctors take advantage of their plight.
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