When some husbands want the family to grow, they think that it will be a quick process and that pregnancy will be a fact in a short time. There is a 20% probability that the act of conception does not occur so easily and special methods have to be used, in which the couple realize their dream of becoming parents.
When should you go to a fertility clinic? The advice is to go after a year of having unprotected sex and does not get pregnant, when the woman is under 35 years of age. When the woman is older than 35 years, she must go after six months.
The factors that could influence this process – and so you should go to a specialist – is for: irregular menstrual cycles, a history of pelvic surgery, more than two spontaneous abortions, when it is suspected that the man is infertile, when one or two of the members of the couple know that they have a genetic disease.
Once you know that you have a problem and that you want to solve it, the step is to select the specialist because it can’t be just anyone. You have to look for someone who, in addition to being qualified, has empathy because very intimate topics will be discussed.
The “special methods” in which the stork will bless the couple, are developed in a fertility clinic. Having to go to these centers makes people feel anxious about the diagnosis they may receive.
The first visit is nothing more than one of approach and contact, to begin to diagnose what the patient has. The specialist begins to ask a series of routine questions, in order to obtain as much information as possible, which will lead him to the correct diagnosis.
What questions to ask the doctor?
It is a process in which you must have a lot of information, investigate constantly, so that you can facilitate the work of the doctor. Among the questions we recommend you ask the doctor are:
-What is the diagnosis? There are people who start the fertility process, not knowing what they really have. You have to know what is happening in your body and why you cannot conceive, in order to make better decisions. The doctor must be able to explain to you, with luxuries and details, what you have or why your partner does not achieve conception.
- what is the diagnosis?
- What is the forecast? You have to ask your doctor if this clinical condition is simple to use or more sophisticated technology is required.
- I have time to wait? Can I postpone my decision to start a fertility treatment or is the time running against me?
- Do you have a doctor the facilities to do the treatment I require? If you don’t have them where would I recommend going?
– What is the success rate in your career? (This would not be the reasonable question, here the question would be: doctor, what experience do you have in handling this specific topic, example, there are gynecologists who do not have any training in reproductive medicine, there are gynecologists who, if they have any, the most important thing is 1. whether or not they are interested in the Topic, 2. If you feel the ability to manage it and if not if you are going to lean on someone, (that would be the most important question). A person’s success rate depends on other variables, it depends on their knowledge, on their resources, what teams do they have, what resources does it have, what technology does it have? It is very Probably that a gynecologist in the province does not have the resources to make an invitro fertilization and must refer a patient.
If you ask us for a treatment of how long should I have? It requires frequent trips, it requires going somewhere outside the city where I live, how long it takes me, what tests can I do with my social security system and which ones I don’t.
Could it be that my social security covers my treatment? Today it is a very big and very complex question.
Many fertility centers today offer us the ease of accessing the Internet by, by phone or means such as Skype to have a first conference with the specialist. Arrive as much as possible and use time in the most productive way.
What is my best treatment option for my clinical condition? We doctors must try to make a very precise diagnosis, based on the diagnosis and the forecast to make a very accurate treatment proposal, (then we must ask the doctor: with that diagnosis and that forecast that treatment offers me? Each treatment will be different, To require different times, demands, availability, costs and that must be possible to define in advance.
Does this treatment involve some side effects that limit my daily life, such as moving, exercising, or continuing to work? Most of the treatments allow patients to continue in their daily lives, and only become incapacitated at some specific moments of the procedure.
Some important questions: Does fertility treatment involve any risk for me?
Do the medications that are going to give me cause some damage or increase in the risk of a serious disease such as cancer? Do I have any risk of complication with treatment? What is the best option for safe treatment?
Who replaces it on vacation? Usually work in fertility centers is a team work, where possibly the doctor in charge is the one who gives the indications and guidelines of the treatment, but is always supported by a very extensive working group from attendees, nurses, specialists who will keep us in continuous treatment. The ideal of fertility treatments is that they are never suspended, someone will always be available on a weekend at a special time, most of the fertility centers we have a nurse who attends 24 hours phone calls that allows us to keep in touch very closely with our center.