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Infertility treatment can become very complex. You may find that the choices and options being discussed with you are bewildering, particularly if you are about to embark upon assisted conception treatment. As a result, you may feel that you have lost control and are on a rollercoaster that you can?t get off.
The Infertility Guidance Service is not an Infertility Clinic. No treatments are carried out at all. The service has been set up to provide you with a totally unbiased and 'easy to understand' assessment of all the options and various treatments that may be applicable to you. It is there to act as a guide through the infertility maze.
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Fertility journal entries
- Forgotten Infertility Management
Have we forgotten the infertility treatment skills that were gained before the availability of modern assisted conception treatments? Modern infertility management appears to be geared to streamlining patients towards the high tech options available through assisted conception techniques, such as IVF, ICSI, egg and embryo donation. There is no doubt that ICSI has dramatically revolutionised […]
Blog entries
- Can IVF drugs increase the risk of Down’s Syndrome in older women?
A woman is born with all the eggs she will release during her reproductive life. It is well known that women over 35 have an increased risk of having a baby affected by Down’s Syndrome. It is for this reason that egg donors must be under the age of 36 years. Can drugs used to […]
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Some of the options you may wish to consider:
- Ovulation Induction
- Intrauterine Insemination
- Donor Insemination
- IVF
- ICSI
- Assisted Hatching
- Frozen Embryo Transfer
- Egg Donation
- Egg Donor Information
- Egg Sharing
- Embryo Donation
- Cryopreservation (freezing) of embryos & frozen embryo transfer (FET)
- GIFT
- Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS)
- Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
- Tubal Surgery
- Fibroids & Myomectomy
- Laparoscopy & Dye Insufflation
- Hysterosalpingography
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS)
- Protecting fertility before radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery