Fibroids

Fibroids

Uterine Fibroids Treatments

Your treatment options for infertility will vary according to the cause of your fertility problems. Here are the types of fertility treatments that are available, from the least invasive to the most invasive. You have a number of choices, so you and your doctor should devise a treatment plan, starting with the least invasive options first.

  • Fertility drugs – Fertility drugs, such as clomiphene and gonadotropins, regulate your reproductive hormones and trigger the release of one or more of your eggs per ovulation cycle. You may get pregnant using fertility drugs alone, or you may be offered them with other treatments such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
  • Keyhole surgery – It is the treatment to unblock your fallopian tubes or remove scarring caused by endometriosis, fibroids, or ovarian cysts. It can increase your chances of conception.
  • Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) – During intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a single sperm is injected into a single egg and the resulting embryo is placed in your uterus.
  • In vitro fertilisation (IVF) – During the IVF process, eggs are removed from the ovaries and fertilised with sperm in the laboratory. The fertilised egg (embryo) is later placed in the woman’s womb. You will probably need to take fertility drugs to stimulate your ovaries to develop mature eggs ready for fertilisation.
  • Intrauterine insemination (IUI) – It is a procedure in which sperm are placed directly into the uterine cavity through a catheter near the time of ovulation. IUIs can be performed either with the partner’s sperm or with donor sperm.
  • Egg (or embryo) donation – It is one of the options available to help women who are unable to get pregnant. An egg donated by another woman is mixed with sperm and implanted in your uterus. Some couples donate embryos they have not needed from IVF cycles.
  • Surrogacy – Another woman carries a baby for you through to birth, after which you legally become the baby’s parents. Your baby may grow from an embryo made from your egg and your partner’s sperm, or from a donor embryo.

The most advanced and expensive treatments are in vitro fertilization (IVF), Intrauterine insemination (IUI), surrogacy etc. Cheaper therapies, such as fertility drugs or surgery, are often very effective. In fact, about 90 percent of couples with fertility problems who have children were treated with drugs or surgery only.