While you might think that IVF is the only answer to your infertility problems, you might be surprised to learn that tubal surgery can also be of help. While the best solution for you depends upon the type of problems you have, you should look further into tubal surgery.
So where does tubal surgery come in? Many times a woman finds out her infertility problems are due to some type of tubal blockage. This can be devastating to her and her spouse. But this is the type of infertility problem where tubal surgery can shine.
Consider these interesting facts using the New York Times and CNN and resources. A course or cycle of IVF can cost you around $10,000 to $12,000. The time involved in one cycle can be three to eight weeks while they try to boost your hormones to cause you to super ovulate. When you do, you will produce several eggs which will be retrieved in order to do fertilization outside your body before being implanted in your uterus.
Now, some women are just too old to do this. I read in the New York Times of a 49 year old bride who wanted children. In this case, eggs can be bought from an egg donor usually a woman in her 20s. But your body must still be made ready with hormones and drugs for the implantation of the fertilized egg.
No matter what hell you may go through in order to become ready, whether to produce your own eggs and carry a fetus or just to carry the fetus, you may not be lucky enough to maintain the pregnancy. Usually this seems to be a case of implantation not taking place.
Failure of one cycle means another cycle if you are using IVF. You are going to pay for another cycle. You are going to go through at least some of the drugs again. Who knows how many times you will go through this and who knows how much it will cost in the end?
Now with tubal surgery, a surgeon goes in and removes the bad part of your tubes where the blockage is located. It’s just like what they do to reverse a tubal ligation. Once the blockage is removed, the remaining good sections of your fallopian tubes are sewn back together. No blockage means the egg can now get through and you can try to get pregnant again and again.
So how good is the success rate of IVF to tubal surgery? Let’s use the study Dr. Berger did on his tubal surgery patients. He had a success rate up to 87%. You can check out his site yourself to see the various factors that play into the success rate and how it varies. Looking at one cycle of in vitro fertilization, you will find that there is only a 30% success rate. As we said before, you usually have to go through more than one cycle of IVF and this is why making tubal surgery a much better option for women who have infertility due to tubal blockage.