Fertility Problems - Real Life Stories and Best Alternative Options

One of the best alternative options if you're having trouble getting pregnant is acupuncture. Acupuncture can give women hope when all else has failed.

In fact, one woman in particular says that she and her husband finally
had years of infertility come to an end with the birth of their son.

There are lots of available treatments for fertility in Western medicine, too, but acupuncture seems to be successful when nothing else is.

As this delighted mom said, "Acupuncture works; I did everything I could think of, for years, to have a baby and almost gave up on having one."

Acupuncture and Fertility Problems

With acupuncture, tiny needles are placed in various pressure points, which helps improve energy circulation and flow. It also relieves stress and actually improves physical blood circulation as well. It's been around as a Chinese practice for centuries, and but has only recently come into Western favor as a treatment for fertility.

"Mainstream" infertility doctors are picking up on the practice, too. Dr. Paul C. Magarelli is a fertility specialist at the
Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has so embraced acupuncture as a bona fide fertility treatment, in fact, that he's co-authoring an ongoing study on acupuncture and infertility.

He's doing so with colleague Dr. Diane K. Cridennda. Cridennda is licensed in acupuncture and has a master's degree in Oriental medicine from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine. At first, Magarelli was skeptical, and thought that there was no way acupuncture was really the reason for success. But now, he says, "I'm pretty much a convert."

Why has acupuncture been so successful in helping women conceive when everything else has failed? Experts aren't sure, but believe that one of the reasons may be that circulation to the ovaries and uterus is improved, which in turn produces healthier eggs. And because circulation to be in the universe
is also improved, it can better support a baby to term.

Circulation and Stress Relieve

Besides that, acupuncture is a stress reliever. Because infertility can cause stress, AND because stress can be a cause of infertility, this creates a  vicious cycle for many women. They try to become pregnant, have difficulty doing so, and become stressed as a result.

That stress in turn decreases chances even further that they will become pregnant. Because acupuncture itself is a stress reliever, using it as a treatment for infertility can reduce that stress, which in turn can make it easier to become pregnant.

Does that mean that acupuncture should replace traditional infertility treatments? Not necessarily. In fact, some practitioners are advocating the use of traditional Chinese medicine treatments like acupuncture in combination with more mainstream fertility treatments, like drug treatment.

Combining both methods gives hope
 
In addition, acupuncture can be used with treatments like in vitro fertilization for a couple of reasons. You can increase the chances that healthy embryos will be produced, and it may also increase the chances that those embryos will actually implant after insertion into the uterus.

In short, it looks like acupuncture is here to stay as a treatment for fertility, both by itself and in conjunction with more mainstream fertility therapies. It gives hope to women who may not have otherwise had success in conceiving.