IVF Support: Preparing Your Body for Your Next Cycle

IVF Acupuncture

For patients who are going through IVF, acupuncture can support you through the process: follicle numbers, egg health, and lining thickness are what I work on.

The research on acupuncture alongside IVF is mixed. A 2008 BMJ review of acupuncture given around embryo transfer reported higher pregnancy and live-birth rates, while a large 2018 JAMA trial found no difference in live births compared with sham acupuncture. So I do not promise a percentage.

I use acupuncture as support for your eggs, your lining, your stress and your medication side effects, alongside your RE’s protocol.

Acupuncture during IVF

Acupuncture during IVF can help improve the quality of your eggs through increased blood flow to ovaries, reduce the intensity of side effects from the hormone regimen, and reduce the intensity of emotional swings.

Whether it raises IVF success rates is still debated in the research, so I do not promise that it will. When you do IVF, every egg that is retrieved is the equivalent of one month’s work in egg nourishment. So if you retrieve 12 eggs, that is a year’s worth of nourishment in a month!

That is a huge energetic and nutritional drain on your body and energy. When you do acupuncture during IVF, you aim to increase the amount of nourishment each egg is getting, which helps improve the quality of retrieved eggs.

Better quality eggs give fertilization and implantation their best chance.

It's optimal if you can come in 2-3 months before the procedure to get maximum impact on the health of your eggs.

Ninety days is the window for maximal change — but not the only useful window. Each month of treatment can improve egg quality.

The best time to start is now, however short or long you have before your cycle.

If you are in an IVF cycle right now, it is not too late to come in. IVF is stressful, and acupuncture can help you manage that stress. Acupuncture can also ease medication side effects and support blood flow to the ovaries to help improve the nutrient flow during stimulation.

Acupuncture and lifestyle changes are equals in this work.

Lifestyle is the foundation so acupuncture can rebalance hormones, address the specific fertility issue, and tie everything together. Both are critical.

I have received intensive postgraduate training in fertility acupuncture, and I have board certification in Reproductive Oriental Medicine. Call to plan support around your next IVF cycle.

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