I just signed up with GeoBaby as my wife got pregnant last Nov. This is the first few topics I clicked. I will share our experience since we also have acupuncture and infertility treatment recently.
We visited our chinese doc regularly for the last few years for general health boost and stress relief. We are now his friends to go out for dinners as well as patients at his clinics.
According to him, we could expect a reasonable chance despite all the odds. A few years back he said once its a non-sense to relate us to infertility unless there are hard evidence from modern medical check that my wife's body was unusal. But when we approached gynecologists for checkings and advice back in those years, we were told our age group was not to feel optimistic. During the process things were not going smooth and hopes were diminishing. Those scientific infertility treatments were very difficult to her and caused complications. By the time she was pregnant, we were already over 40.
Chinese doctor said a good about-to-be mum should be red and rozy. Pulse should be stable and confident. My wife always suffers from alarmingly low blood pressure and very thin red blood counts. Annual body checks were showing some arming points that flag us to keep reviewing the next year and advise us to consult GP if deteriorate. Her long hour and very stressful job was also not helping her body to grow stronger. She was totally lacking those favourable body conditions from a chinese doctors perspective.
We only started a targeted chinese doc treatment for a few months after our first IUI. We were skeptical about chinese medicines and doc while we have infertility treatments to avoid conflicts until our first IUI. That IUI attempt involved very high dosage of injections as gynecologist found my wife very weak in blood test reports. She was devastated both physically and mentally after that failed IUI. We brought this up to our chinese doc and he kind of put us on an intensive program. We took chinese medicines together with frequent acupuncture treatment. There were also some heat treatments and message treatments. I believe chinese medicines gave us an extra boost to turn her rosy. And her annual health check also shown some better than last year results. Just 3+ months into the chinese doc program our gynecologists says the conditions for a second IUI was right. Blood test results were so nice that our gynecologist was showing a good smile on his face there after. Our second IUI injection dosage was much smaller, we were told it was already enough for her at that body condition. We kind of abruptly stopped taking herbals, and then we were lucky. The role of those "indigenous" medicines in our case may be worth noting. May be its also the accumulated boost from our many chinese doc sessions during the last few years.
One more thing I want to share is the prices quoted on line and in this thread are very high when comparing to mine. Although our annual spending with chinese doctor might be more than those figures mentioned here and we are paying concession rates as friends. Anyway our per session costs are significantly lower. Our targeted treatment does not cost us more than our usual session. Prescriptions cost quite some money but those are related to "indigenous" items we purchased from herbal shops. And I think chinese doctor sessions may need to be regular and be maintained for quite sometime to show their full potential in boosting one's body and the chances of pregnancy. Or may be its my wife's conditions were critical and complicated. We cannot tell for sure but just some tough experience to share with anyone that may find it useful.
We visited our chinese doc regularly for the last few years for general health boost and stress relief. We are now his friends to go out for dinners as well as patients at his clinics.
According to him, we could expect a reasonable chance despite all the odds. A few years back he said once its a non-sense to relate us to infertility unless there are hard evidence from modern medical check that my wife's body was unusal. But when we approached gynecologists for checkings and advice back in those years, we were told our age group was not to feel optimistic. During the process things were not going smooth and hopes were diminishing. Those scientific infertility treatments were very difficult to her and caused complications. By the time she was pregnant, we were already over 40.
Chinese doctor said a good about-to-be mum should be red and rozy. Pulse should be stable and confident. My wife always suffers from alarmingly low blood pressure and very thin red blood counts. Annual body checks were showing some arming points that flag us to keep reviewing the next year and advise us to consult GP if deteriorate. Her long hour and very stressful job was also not helping her body to grow stronger. She was totally lacking those favourable body conditions from a chinese doctors perspective.
We only started a targeted chinese doc treatment for a few months after our first IUI. We were skeptical about chinese medicines and doc while we have infertility treatments to avoid conflicts until our first IUI. That IUI attempt involved very high dosage of injections as gynecologist found my wife very weak in blood test reports. She was devastated both physically and mentally after that failed IUI. We brought this up to our chinese doc and he kind of put us on an intensive program. We took chinese medicines together with frequent acupuncture treatment. There were also some heat treatments and message treatments. I believe chinese medicines gave us an extra boost to turn her rosy. And her annual health check also shown some better than last year results. Just 3+ months into the chinese doc program our gynecologists says the conditions for a second IUI was right. Blood test results were so nice that our gynecologist was showing a good smile on his face there after. Our second IUI injection dosage was much smaller, we were told it was already enough for her at that body condition. We kind of abruptly stopped taking herbals, and then we were lucky. The role of those "indigenous" medicines in our case may be worth noting. May be its also the accumulated boost from our many chinese doc sessions during the last few years.
One more thing I want to share is the prices quoted on line and in this thread are very high when comparing to mine. Although our annual spending with chinese doctor might be more than those figures mentioned here and we are paying concession rates as friends. Anyway our per session costs are significantly lower. Our targeted treatment does not cost us more than our usual session. Prescriptions cost quite some money but those are related to "indigenous" items we purchased from herbal shops. And I think chinese doctor sessions may need to be regular and be maintained for quite sometime to show their full potential in boosting one's body and the chances of pregnancy. Or may be its my wife's conditions were critical and complicated. We cannot tell for sure but just some tough experience to share with anyone that may find it useful.
