{"id":92151,"date":"2020-02-26T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivi-fertility.com\/?p=92151"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:35:28","slug":"hormone-pills-to-get-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivi-fertility.com\/blog\/hormone-pills-to-get-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"How hormones affect your ability to get pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the majority of women there is no need for any kind of hormone treatment in order to become pregnant. They only need to ensure that they are in optimal health for conception. For them, a healthy and varied diet is the simplest way to balance hormones to get pregnant.<\/strong> For the 12% of women who do have difficulty conceiving, it is possible that they will be prescribed hormone pills to regulate their endocrine system and get pregnant.<\/strong> Others, but only those who are undergoing a recognised infertility treatment, could be prescribed hormonal medication which is delivered by injection rather than pills. In the majority of cases where hormonal medication is required, the purpose is to stimulate the ovaries (the follicle growth) or regulate ovulation.<\/p>\n We should note at the outset that it is never advisable to take hormones to get pregnant, whether in the form of pills or any other medication, unless they have been prescribed by a doctor<\/strong> and are taken under medical supervision.<\/p>\n The body\u2019s natural hormone balance and the fluctuating levels of hormones regulating the monthly menstrual cycle are essential for conception and carrying a pregnancy to term. This natural balance can become disrupted, in a process which is usually gradual over many years. This disruption can be the result of a poor diet, being overweight or extremely underweight, environmental pollutants or even high levels of stress. You can damage your hormonal balance and as a result reduce your chances of conception in a number of ways:<\/p>\n If you can get these areas of your life under control and avoid the most obvious pollutants, as well as taking other lifestyle measures such as not smoking, avoiding drugs and over-consumption of alcohol, you will be well on your way to balancing your hormone levels and increasing your chances of pregnancy.<\/p>\n For women whose fertility problems are not resolvable by improving their general health, hormone pills or injections could be prescribed by a doctor as part of an infertility treatment. These fertility drugs have different functions. It may be to suppress the internal release of hormones in order to take external control of the cycle, to stimulate the ovaries to produce eggs or to trigger ovulation.<\/p>\n One example of a hormone pill is clomiphene, an oestrogen-blocking drug. It causes the release of the GnRH hormones: Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)<\/a> and Luteinising Hormone (LH). These in turn stimulate your ovaries to produce eggs. Between 60% and 80% of women who take these fertility drugs do start to ovulate and of these, approximately half get pregnant, mostly within three cycles. During this treatment it is essential to have periodic scans so that the medical team can monitor the number of follicles which are developing (and hence the number of eggs which could potentially be fertilised) in order to keep them under control and avoid multiple pregnancies.<\/p>\n Ovulation induction is the first choice and the simplest of all fertility treatments. In this method, following the induction of ovulation, fertilisation takes place at home through intercourse in the normal way, on days determined by the medical team. If this is unsuccessful, the next step is intrauterine insemination.<\/p>\n Intrauterine Insemination always requires the use of fertility drugs. Because it is vital for the insemination to take place at exactly the right time, a sequence of fertility drugs is usually required:<\/p>\n For more details on how the procedure works in our IVI clinics, see the Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) information<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n IVF is of course the best known and most well-established method of assisted reproduction. It depends, among other things, on the use of fertility drugs and hormones for its success. Specific combinations of drugs used, and their timing and dosages, will depend on the individual patient but in broad terms, the stages follow a fairly standard pattern:<\/p>\n To find out more about how the process works in our IVI clinics, take a look at our information about In Vitro Fertilisation<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe natural way to balance hormones to get pregnant<\/h2>\n
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When hormone pills to get pregnant are necessary<\/h2>\n
Assisted fertility treatments using hormone medication<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Ovulation Induction:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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