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Re: INFERTILITY: Acupuncture doesn't boost IVF success for all From: dr.narayan patel (anonymous@obgyn.net) Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:08:00 -0500 (CDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: dr.narayan patel: "Re: CONTRACEPTION: questions about levora.." Previous message: Walter Futterweit, MD, FACE,FACP: "Re: WEIGHTMANAGEMENT: acarbose for obese? overweight people...." In reply to: Hope Waltman: "INFERTILITY: Acupuncture doesn't boost IVF success for all" At Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Hope Waltman wrote: > >"Despite the results of my own study, I still recommend acupuncture to >women going through IVF because there's no downside," Domar added, aside >from the $150 an acupuncturist would typically charge -- a small >fraction of the $12,000 to $14,000 couples typically spent on a single >round of IVF. > >Nobody knows how exactly acupuncture might boost IVF success, Domar >said, although she suggests that it has something to do with a woman's >mental state at the time of embryo transfer. > >Most researchers looking at IVF have focused on medical aspects, for >example how many embryos are transferred or how many cycles of IVF a >woman completes, she added. "Our field has ignored the patient's >emotional state around the time of embryo transfer. I think this >acupuncture research is tapping in to that." SOURCE: Fertility and >Sterility, March 2009. > >http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_83032.html > >http://www.obgyn.net/infertility/infertility.asp > >Best Regards, Hope Waltman, WHF Moderator > >http://www.hopeforfibroids.org Patients undergoing I.V.F treatmant are always under stress as they are spending 12000 to 14000 US$ per cycle with no guaretntee of success more than 20% per cycle. If by spending 150 US$ if you get mental by acquepuncture treatment it is a cheap burgain. One can even go to a fortune teller who may be cheper if he gives you peace of mind till result of I.V.F. cycle. Meditation can also give you a piece of mind. This has to be proved scintifically by double blind study to believe in it. Next message: dr.narayan patel: "Re: CONTRACEPTION: questions about levora.." Previous message: Walter Futterweit, MD, FACE,FACP: "Re: WEIGHTMANAGEMENT: acarbose for obese? overweight people...." In reply to: Hope Waltman: "INFERTILITY: Acupuncture doesn't boost IVF success for all"

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