Many women with fertility problems do not know that tubal surgery is an option that can be used other than IVF. They simply aren’t told and do not do further research unlike you. Although there are many reasons for infertility, tubal surgery, rather than IVF can definitely be worth looking into.
If you have learned that your infertility problems are due to tubal blockage, you might want to consider tubal surgery as your means to overcome this issue. A tubal surgeon will remove the blockage during the operation and make the fallopian tube whole again.
To best compare to tubal surgery, let’s learn a bit more about IVF. Using various resources around the web including the NY Times and CNN, you can find that one cycle of IVF will be $10,000 to $12,000. During this cycle, you will be given a course of drugs to boost your egg producing ability and to prepare your body. The eggs are gathered and then fertilized. At the appointed time of development, they are placed in your uterus where you will hope one or more implants itself.
However, some women are too old to have viable eggs and have to use an egg donor. This was the story in a NY Times article about a 49 year old woman who had recently gotten married and they decided they wanted children. The eggs for her came from a 20-something Romanian woman. So there was not only the procedure but the cost of the egg donor.
The bad news is that, with all you go through to do even just one cycle of IVF, it may not work. You will not maintain the pregnancy or the eggs will not implant for whatever reason. So you will have to go through all of this again.
Now you have to go through it all again who knows how many times. You have to pay for each cycle you will go through. Usually you can count on more than one cycle with all the cost, time and potential damage done to your body.
On the other hand, tubal surgery can remove the parts of your blocked tubes that are causing your infertility. This is the same type of surgery that is done for women wanting to have a tubal ligation reversal, meaning they want to untie their tubes which they had “tied”. The surgeon removes the part of the blocked tubes where the damage is and then reconnects the good healthy pieces back together.
One surgeon, Dr. Berger, did a study on his own patients and has an up to 87% success rate with tubal surgery. How does that compare to IVF? Most women using it have to do more than one cycle of IVF to get one pregnancy. There is only a 30% chance of getting pregnant on any one cycle. When you are ready for another child, you have to go through it all over again. With tubal surgery, you get to try as many times as you want for as many children as you want. With tubal surgery, trying to conceive is half the fun. Not so much with IVF.
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