Acupuncture
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Anonymous
| Hello! Can anyone recommend please an acupuncturist, preferably who sees patients dealing with fertility issues, in the NOVA area! Thanks much |
Anonymous
| No. Go to an experienced board certified MD fertility OBGYN who works at a big academic hospital. |
Anonymous
I am under the care of a fertility doctor of course, and want to start doing acupuncture, as I heard it’s beneficial in some cases! |
Anonymous
| Dr. Sarah Alemi, Eastern Roots Wellness in McLean. It was AMAZINGLY relaxing, which is so important and yet so elusive when you’re TTC, especially during multiple rounds of IVF. I absolutely plan to go back to her when I’m ready to start trying for DC #2. |
Anonymous
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See Kerri Westhauser.
She didn’t help me get pregnant but I had a particularly traumatic miscarriage with HCG levels dropping agonizingly slowly over 5 months. Once they dropped to zero I could not get a period, so my RE put me on BCP so that eventually I would get off them and get a withdrawal bleed to hopefully jump start my normal cycle. Out of exasperation I saw her while I was on the pill and three days later had a heavy period while on the pill. My REs nurse couldn’t believe it. I stopped going to her when I moved to Cornell but she really helped me with that cycle. I also don’t “believe” in acupuncture but she sure did something that worked. ://www.westhauseracupuncture.com/ |
Anonymous
| I saw Emily at Adanced Health Center at 50 and Glebe. I really loved her and was successful 3 times |
Anonymous
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What are your issues? Truly, I mean this with kindness, acupuncture will not cure your fertility issues.
That said, I love: https://nuwaveacu.com/ |
Anonymous
Hi there, I don’t mind your question. I am 41 years old, and have an extremely low AMH 0.02  so as expected I have Diminished Ovarian Reserve, I went through 2 rounds and only got one egg each time (despite very high dosage of stimulation)… I transferred a day 3 embryo but it didn’t implant unfortunately.
Donor eggs or embryos are simply not an option for me, so I’m trying to give it a final try and wondering if acupuncture will help and also supplements like coQ10 etc. That’s my story! |
Anonymous
| Some women cannot get pregnant. |
Anonymous
True! Just like how some people cannot keep a job, and spend their time bullying others online! |
Anonymous
| Deb Earley but she's near DuPont. I saw her while doing IUI and IVF. She's great, very calm demeanor, lot of experience with infertility clients, and I just found it very relaxing. No idea if it helped get pregnant but felt great to just "do something for me" and I felt very calm all day afterwards. |
Anonymous
I do think Coq10 helped with egg quality for me. But unfortunately you need to use it for 3 months before retrieval. |
Anonymous
| I don’t live in DC anymore but I can say that my Chinese gyn strongly encouraged acupuncture and my husband and I figured it wouldn’t hurt for me to try. (We had secondary infertility for reasons that we couldn’t determine.) I figured out who took my insurance, wasn’t too annoying to get to, and then read some reviews online. I wasn’t thrilled by the bedside manner of mine but something worked. I also had an HsG and my DH and I switched from sex every other day to every day during my fertile month, and I don’t know what worked, but I was pregnant 8 weeks after I started acupuncture! We were shocked. I was 38 and we’d been trying (and had taken clomid which I’d used for my first) unsuccessfully for 16 months. |
Anonymous
| Pp here - we tried for 16 months. Only took clomid for a few. |
Anonymous
| Gillian Powers at Crossings Healing & Wellness in Silver Spring |