Dr. Lucky Sekhon

So what that looks like for someone with ovaries is taking a medication like Clomid or Letrozole to force your brain to send a stronger signal because now it might help you release two or three eggs.

One egg is a long shot, two or three long shots in play.

it improves your odds by a bit and on the sperm side you can put sperm at the top of the reproductive tract give it a shortcut it's like sperm delivery right and you're washing it you're concentrating and you're just trying to get more sperm and more eggs to interact so it's like speed dating for the uterus okay instead of two people meeting and finding each other and being like you're the one you're going to an event you're meeting a bunch of people and you're hoping that that improves the odds of a connection taking place but anyone who's gone to a speed dating event knows that that

It's not destined to work the first time.

So it's like the long game.

You might try medicated inseminations or IUI, intrauterine insemination.

In combination, you might do that and also keep trying on your own during that time for like three to six months.

Now, the other option is much more direct.

It's IVF.

So medicated IUI is laid back.

It has laid back treatment success rates.

It has laid back prices like it's cheaper.

It's not high tech.

IVF is much more controlled.

It involves having a team of embryologists in a lab who you never meet doing like micro procedures with your eggs and sperm.

And basically you're taking shots.

You're trying to get multiple eggs to grow.

The shot mimics that signal your brain normally sends to get one egg to mature and ovulate.

But you take it at a higher level to get all of them to kind of plump up and mature.

Then we go in and we do a very simple procedure that takes 10 minutes, but you're asleep so you don't feel anything or remember anything.