Has anyone happened to notice that infertility has been occupying my mind a lot lately? :P River is days away from 20 months old and many of my friends (and my sister) who have kids River's age or younger are already into the 2nd trimester of their next pregnancy. Needless to say, I'm feeling the pressure stalled back here at the starting line waiting for my ticket to Australia.
The interesting part about this time around is that I have a new partner in infertility. A new supporter. A new cheerleader. And I have the honor of doing the same for her. Angie. Yes, River's Angie :) Once on different sides of the adoption triangle we are now parallel lines in infertility. We are the first person the other one calls when they find out someone else close to them is pregnant and we share each others tears. We are also the first person the other one calls when they find out about a new infertility treatment. Which is what led me to post this today.
During a doctor's visit about an unrelated topic Angie found out about LDN (low dose naltrexone) therapy for infertility. She immediately sent me a flurry of texts with info to research on the topic. Being that I'm not exactly a "satisfied employee" right now I decided to some research despite the fact that I should be working. Click here to check out the best article I have found so far on the topic. I love that is has a list of symptoms that many find LDN to help with. I am beyond excited about this because I know so many of you have suffered from unexplained infertility and unexplained miscarriage and this seems to address a whole new avenue that may very well explain some of our previously unexplainables!
Here is an exerp from the article:
Low dose naltrexone (LDN) has been used off label for the treatment of infertility and recurrent miscarriage by Dr. Thomas Hilgers, founder of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska since the early1990s. Used as part of a treatment protocol known as NaPro Technology, LDN has been used as a treatment for infertility since 2004. The goal of NaPro Technology is to increase endorphin levels near the time of ovulation.
Read more at Suite101: Infertility Treatments: The Use of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Therapy http://autoimmunedisease.suite101.com/article.cfm/infertility_treatments#ixzz0nkvTiX4r
Come on girls, lets book our plane tickets to Australia :) I call sitting by Angie!
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4 comments:
Hmmmm, very interesting. I will for sure check it out. No one can tell me why I lost 2 perfectly healthy babies, and the best explanation to my infertility is stage 2 endo. I don't buy it. Thanks for the info!
I hope this proves to be what you and Angie need. When I first sought help with ttc (in 2002), I went to my Gyn. She was a bit on the nontraditional side. She had me on Tamoxifen instead of Clomid for example. She had me on another medication to lower my testosterone level and it came down but not as low as she wanted it so she put me on Naltrexone. It made me soooooooooo sick that I couldn't stand to be on it so I got a second opinion at another Gyn and he referred me to an RE and from fall 2002 until last year I only went to REs. Anyhow I hope you tolerate it better than I did.
Did your dh ever have a strict morphology test? They just labeled us as "PCOS" until we were doing IVF and then they realized that DH was the problem - HORRIBLE morphology - so bad that we had to do ICSI with IVF to have a chance. He passed the previous tests so they thought I was the problem. Wrong!
Hey Jill, yep I know alot of women that have used/are using LDN. See my blog roll for most of them.
what did you get as a diagnoses? or are you like me with none?
Ruth, I'm bummed to hear it made you sick and wasn't very effective!
Rhi, like you I'm a healthy infertile. My progesterone is occasionally low in the LP but otherwise everything should be functioning perfectly. Only problem is that it isn't. grrr! Have the girls on your blog roll had much luck with LDN?
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