Sometimes medical advice makes sense and sometimes it doesn't. Historically, fertility patients have been told to contracept during the month that they plan to start luteal lupron in order to avoid conceiving while on lupron. Actually, the registry of patients that have, in fact, conceived on lupron suggest no risk of birth defects in the children born after this little oops. Years ago in Long Island I had a patient that had 8 years of infertility. She and her husband finally got up the nerve to do IVF and boom, she conceived on lupron. Then 2...
lundi 28 février 2011
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Question 41. I read on the Internet that two inseminations are better than one. Is this true?
Posted on 11:29 by Unknown
The internet is quite an amazing place. You get anything you need at 2 am and research obscure medical disorders to your heart's content. But that can be a danger as well. I have been a bit under the weather recently and let me tell you that you do not want to type any ailment into that Google search box unless you are prepared to totally freak out. Seriously. Of course, medical professionals make the worst patients because we know too much about too little and often end up feeding into our own worst fears. It's never just a mole...it's melanoma....
lundi 14 février 2011
Question 40. How many office visits are required during a typical cycle using fertility drugs and IUI?
Posted on 12:24 by Unknown
TANSTAAFL. This acronym is well known to some. Back in my ill-spent youth I spent a lot of time reading science fiction. One of my favorite authors is Larry Niven (Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Children of Ringworld, Fertility Doctors Who Wish They Could Visit Ringworld, etc). He is very fond of acronyms and his protagonists often use these a great deal. TANSTAAFL is an oldie but goodie and means There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. In other words, you get what you pay for....In fertility treatment that also can apply. In general, treatments...
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