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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think women over 40, regardless of the clinic they choose to use, need to improve their own body first before considering IVF. It increases the odds of IVF working. Consider acupuncture, giving up red meat, seeing a chinese medicine doctor, or someone who specializes in fertility such as Randine Lewis for at least a yr before trying IVF. And I would not limit your clinics to just the one around the corner.  Shady Grove sees lots of people but they aren't the ones with the best statistics for women over 40. Consider out of state clinics if necessary also. I tried SG and had no success. But when I incorporated these other things and went out of state I got pg...at 44.[/quote]

I think this is somewhat poor advice...at 40+ run, don't walk to your nearest RE.

Do all the other stuff concomitantly, but GET to your RE...it will take a few months to get all the testing etc. done...you do NOT want to waste precious time waiting for your body to get healthy...fertility almost exponentially decreases at 40+.

And if you decide to go out of state, for state of the ART, they will most likely accept all the routine diagnostics from the practice you go to locally.

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If it will take a few months to get all the testing done before IVF actually begins then why not try the alternative stuff while you're waiting for your cycle to begin? There's no delay then.  And many women don't do IVF's back to back month to month. They wait a couple months in between, sometimes because they want the meds to be out of their system before they try again, sometimes because they are grieving over the loss, etc...so why not do alternative meds during that time also? Then where is the waste of time?

And consider that if you run to the nearest RE and push for as many IVF cycles as you possibly can, you may be spending an enormous amount of money whereas alternative meds can boost your chances of pg and save you some money possibly in the end.[/quote]

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