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It is quite normal to use a mixture of fertility drugs and surgery prior to beginning In Vitro Fertilization treatment. For a woman - if you aren’t ovulating (making and releasing an egg each month) at all, or only sometimes, fertility drugs – which set off egg production in much the same way as your body’s own hormones – can help.

This is known as ovulation induction and while you may get pregnant employing fertility drugs alone, they are more often employed with other interventions such as Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). One of the fertility drugs used is ‘Clomid’ also known as Clomiphene Citrate and is one of the earliest fertility drugs around but it is still used the most. When taken in pill form it is used to send a message to your brain telling it that it isn’t making enough estrogen which then triggers the ovaries into producing more eggs.

Surgical procedures used to be popular when In Vitro Fertilization and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection interventions were less progressive and accessible, but a procedure can still help infertility in some situations. Inflammation and scarring which can result in blocked tubes are a perfect situation where surgery is still usable, and for infections like Chlamydia. Others include Fibroids, Endometriosis and different circumstances impacting on the womb or tubes. Fortunately, these days keyhole surgical procedures is the norm and your doctor at the fertility clinic will be the easiest person to advise you on available courses of action.

The use of drugs in male infertility is not as conspicuous as they are with handling infertility in women. Now and then they may be given for men under unusual circumstances. These may include antibiotics to treat contagion or inflammation, and vitamins C and E to better sperm mobility, although on that point there is no credible evidence that this improves the chance of pregnancy. If you can’t make any sperm, for example (you may have had a vasectomy or a failed reversal) a small procedure referred to surgical sperm recovery can be conducted to withdraw the sperm from the Epididymis (where sperm are produced) or the testicles.

The negative aspect to employing fertility drugs is that ovulation is being induced artificially and this frequently results in multiple births. If you are getting fertility drugs with Intrauterine Insemination, some doctors will scrub a cycle in which you grow a large number of follicles or egg sacs as this increases your chances even more. If you have In Vitro Fertilization, the chance of a multiple pregnancy is restricted by substituting one or two embryos.

The complexity of this area of fertility drugs, surgical procedures and intervention is such that only brief details can be provided in this short article. Your local fertility clinic will be able to go into much more depth on the choices available with fertility drugs and surgical procedures.