Acupuncture for IVF & IUI

IVF is a mentally and physically stressful experience requiring a range of pharmaceuticals, scans and procedures. IUI is less complex, but can be equally mentally challenging.

Acupuncture can be used before, during and after these treatments, providing a supportive and personalised therapy focused on fertility.

When is it best to start acupuncture for IVF?

We recommend a three month preparation period before starting IVF or IUI.

For women, we adjust our treatments to suit different stages of the cycle paying attention to physical and hormone changes. For men, this is an important time to optimise sperm quality.

If you have already started on an IVF programme, there are specific stages at which acupuncture can be most useful:

• during the follicular stimulation phase
• after egg collection
• preparing for frozen embryo transfer
• on the day before/of embryo transfer
• during the week before the pregnancy test

Your acupuncture will vary according to which IVF protocol you are following: long or short protocols, frozen embryo cycles or natural cycle. We will also adapt our treatments according to your response to the fertility medication. Many of the drugs used in IVF are hormones, and therefore they affect different women in different ways.

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Useful information and advice on IVF and Fertility

Here are some great articles and videos that you may find helpful.