Fertility Issues

Fertility Treatments

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (POS)

Fertility Issues

QUESTION:

My husband and I have been actively trying to conceive over the last
14 months and I am still not pregnant. Can your Program help increase
fertility? Can we still use your Program for selecting our baby's gender?

ANSWER:

As accurate as our gender selection program is, it has no power over
fertility issues. Our Program has power over the gender of the baby but
has no influence on succesfully 'getting pregnant' or not... However,
please note that a LOT of women with fertility issues have succeeded
with our Program!

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Fertility Treatments

QUESTION:

I am following a treatment plan for my infertility and it involves medication.
Could my fertility drug possibly interfere with your gender selection Program?

ANSWER:

Fertility medications will not interfere. Quite a lot of women on the Program
even used their fertility drug to line-up their fertile window (ovulation) with
the Crucial Dates to conceive the desired gender! Pretty clever...   ;o)

Some of the medications used in the treatment of Female infertility are:

• Antagon
• Bravelle
• Cetrotide
• Clomid
• Femara
• Fertinex
• Follitropin
• Follistim
• Gonal-F
• Humegon
• Letrozole
• Lupron
• Lutropin
• Luveris
• Menotropins
• Metrodin
• Novarel
• Ovudrel
• Pergonal
• Pregnyl
• Profasi
• Repronex
• Serophene

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (POS)

QUESTION:

I have a condition called the "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (POS)" and I would
like to know if it will interfere with your gender selection Program. Can it still
work for me?

ANSWER:

Quite a lot of women with 'POS' were successful with our Program. As long as it
is possible for you to get pregnant, you will conceive the gender of your choice
using our Program, regardless of your current (or any) condition.

More information about the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (POS) :

How is POS recognized?

POS is said to affect up to 10% of women of childbearing years.

POS starts with the first menstrual period (menarche), and its most common
manifestations are menstrual irregularities caused by an absence of ovulation.

The menstrual pattern can vary tremendously and can include complete
absence of periods, irregular periods, and light periods interspersed with
heavy periods.

Other common problems that often lead a woman to seek medical attention
are hirsutism, acne, obesity, and infertility.

How is POS diagnosed?

Unfortunately, there is no consistent test for POS.

Women with POS tend to have abnormal levels of male hormones, particularly
testosterone, as well as DHEA-S, a male hormone produced from the adrenal
glands.

Over 50% of women with POS have a higher level of luteinizing hormone (LH)
and a lower level of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), but those changes are
not present in the other 50%.

As well, ultrasound of the ovaries is not always helpful since some women with
POS do not have multiple cysts, and conversely, some women with multiple
cysts on their ovaries, especially those on birth control pills, do not have POS.

How is POS treated?

It is very important for women with POS to lower their risk of heart disease
and diabetes by not smoking, following a healthy diet, trying to keep their
weight down, and doing regular exercise. An added benefit from a healthy
lifestyle is that it helps lower the rate of infertility.

Traditional therapy for POS has consisted of androgen suppression with the
birth control pill, and synthetic progesterone-like medications (these also
reduce the risk of uterine cancer), while infertility has been treated with
fertility medications.

More recently, it's been recognized that treating the insulin resistance with
the medication metformin not only helps lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes,
but when combined with commonly used fertility medications, treatment
with metformin also increases the chances of ovulation and pregnancy.

Art Hister, MD
in association with the MediResource Clinical Team

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