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What to do IUI or IVF?

IUI is a low success treatment which usually kills precious time, fertility power of the body,money and leads to psychological distress to the couple. So couples who have time on their hands, more fertility power and psychologically not ready could be offered IUI treatment to start with in the following case: • Young age < 30 years • PCO( AMH > 2.5) • But stop IUI beyond 3 attempts because it doesn't increase the success rates. • By killing fertility power through IUI, it decreases chances of pregnancy through IVF treatment as well. • Gynaecologists can refrain from overcommitting IUI results which will eventually benefits the patients through IVF. Don't go for IUI if: • More than 35 years age • AMH less than 2 • Husband semen count is less than 10 million • Both tubes are bad with grade 3-4 endometriosis. So the question that arises is that when to and where to start IVF?

PCOS - A Blessing in fertility treatments

As we know – PCOS is POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME which represents with irregular menses, skin manifestation and infertility. India is considered as a hub for PCOS with every zone of India having 12-16% of incidence. Every 6th Infertile couple has PCOS. Therefore it is a question of worry and thus we need to discuss – weather is it really tough or a blessing in fertility treatment to have PCOS in current scenario. As we know that in PCOS, IUI gives 13 -20 % of cumulative pregnancy rate after 6 cycles. But in PCOS ovary is very sensitive to stimulation and IUI stimulation is never controlled properly by any hormone. Apart from results, multiple pregnancy cannot be controlled by IUI Treatment , where ovarian hyper-stimulation is one of the threat behind the treatment. After the invention of the antagonist injection in IVF   Treatment , which overall controls the hyper-stimulation by 75 -85% followed by the strategy of giving lupride injection of ovulation trigger ...