Acupuncture Infertility Pregnancy

Part I: Pregnancies with Acupuncture and herbs only

2006

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 9

1-30-06 update

A 31-yr-old infertility patient from Orange County who had tried on 5 IUIs without success. She came to see Dr. Lee in Nov. 2005 just before her 1st IVF. She has no time to correct her imbalance. Despite of 6 acupuncture and herbal treatments, she did not get pregnant. She then continued the treatments with Dr. Lee for one more month and got pregnant NATURALLY . She is on weekly treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Lesson learned: : Get prepared first before starting IVF. When the body has a chance to get optimized, it will do what you want naturally. Do not force yourself to get pregnant. Instead, focus your energy on the preparation. When your body is ready, pregnancy will come naturally.

Part II: Pregnancies with IUI or IVF and Acupuncture

Continues: 2006

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 11

02/9/06 update.

A 38-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 4 IVF cycles prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She had both of her tubes removed due to severe endometriosis. So IVF is only way to get pregnant. She had only 4 treatments of acupuncture with herbs in 20 days before she started her 5th IVF. She had to cancelled the 5th IVF cycle due to lack of the growth of the follicles. She did not continue acupuncture and Chinese herbal treatment until one week before she started her 6th IVF stimulation. Again, because she was not optimized, there were no growth of follicles. After she cancelled the cycle, she agreed to get her body ready by taking three month of Chinese herbs. In Jan. 06, after Dr. Lee decided that her body was optimized, she started her 7th IVF stimulation. Along with 7 more acupuncture treatments, She got pregnant on 2/9/06. She is on weekly treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Lesson learned: Get prepared first before starting IVF. When the body has a chance to get optimized, it will do what you want naturally. Do not force yourself to get pregnant. Instead, focus your energy on the preparation between IVF cycles. When your body is ready, pregnancy will be achieved.

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 12

02/13/06 update.

A 40-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 2 IUI and 2 IVF cycles prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She had 2 laparoscopies for severe endometriosis prior to the IVFs. But still not able to get pregnant. She had 20 acupuncture treatments with herbs and tried her 3rd IVF without success. She did not give up and tried her 4th IVF with 3 more acupuncture treatments 6 months later. She is now pregnant as of 2/13/06. She is on weekly treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

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Lesson learned: Even with surgeries, the endometriosis is not always gets cleaned out. For some patients, it may take many months for acupuncture to work. For this patient, it took 9 months of acupuncture treatments plus 6 month of rest.

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 13

02/16/06 update.

A 39-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 3 IUI and 2 IVF cycles prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She had 24 acupuncture treatments with herbs to get ready for her 3rd IVF meanwhile to see if she can get pregnant naturally. With 9 more acupuncture treatments during IVF, she got pregnant as of 2/16/06. She is on weekly acupuncture treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 14

02/17/06 update. A close call. Getting ready in 4 treatments.

A 33-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 1 IUI and 2 IVF cycles prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She had one tube blocked. She had only 11 days left before her next IVF starts. She was able to arrange 4 acupuncture treatments to get ready for her 3rd IVF. With 6 more acupuncture treatments during IVF, she got pregnant as of 2/17/06. She was lucky, It was a close call. She is young (33) and for someone age 38 and older, 4 treatments in 11 days would have been too short to get optimized. She is on weekly acupuncture treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Lesson learned: Getting ready takes time. It is better to start treatments one or two months ahead and then take time off after one is ready to wait for the scheduled IVF than coming in a few days before the start of IVF and hoping to get ready in a few sessions. Even the case above shows that it is possible. But, often there is not enough time to get ready. One should ask the following question: Would you want to pay $10,000 for a chance to compete in the Olympic with only 11 days left for training?

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 15

02/20/06 update. 38-yr-old pregnant w/ 1st IVF

A 38-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 1 IUI cycle prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She already started her 2nd IUI on the day of her 1st appointment with Dr. Lee. She has no time to get optimized and failed her 2nd IUI during the optimization process which consists of 4 acupuncture treatments. 2 months later, she started her 1st IVF along with 8 more acupuncture treatments and got pregnant on 2/20/06. She is on weekly acupuncture treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Acupuncture for infertility in action in 2006. Case study 16

02/20/06 update. 38-yr-old pregnant after failing 7 IUIs & 3 IVFs

A 38-yr-old patient from Orange County who had failed 7 IUI and 3 IVF cycles prior to seeing Dr. Lee. She was determined to get optimized before starting her 4th IVF. She spent 2 months and got optimized in 7 acupuncture treatments and Chinese herbs. She got pregnant on 2/24/06 after 7 more acupuncture treatments along with her 4th IVF. She is on weekly acupuncture treatment program with Dr. Lee to prevent miscarriages.

Lesson learned: Getting optimized makes a huge difference. Prior multiple failures are often as result of persistent imbalance in the body.