| If you have PCOS infertility you may wonder what | | | | then proceeding to correct issues caused by PCOS |
| options you have for conceiving a baby. PCOS is | | | | may work better. |
| polycystic ovarian syndrome and is called PCOS for | | | | If all else has been ruled out and pregnancy is difficult |
| short. The good news is that you do have options. | | | | to come by there are medications that can help. |
| Many women with PCOS can become pregnant with | | | | Clomiphene also known as Clomid is one of the most |
| help and some even conceive naturally on their own. | | | | common prescribed drugs for treating infertility with |
| The first thing that physicians will recommend to | | | | PCOS. Clomid helps to increase the pregnancy rate |
| women with PCOS that want to get pregnant is to | | | | six times over PCOS patients who took nothing. The |
| lose weight. Because being overweight is a | | | | incidence of multiple births are also higher while taking |
| side-effect of the condition. Making lifestyle changes | | | | Clomid. |
| that encourage weight loss and healthier eating habits | | | | Gonadotropins are hormones that can treat PCOS |
| helps to boost the body's reproductive organs to | | | | patients that do not respond to the normal fertility |
| function properly. Often this change will boost the | | | | drugs given to PCOS patients (Clomid and Metformin). |
| pregnancy rates. This is probably the easiest way to | | | | This drug has a very good success rate with PCOS. |
| start off the road to conception. | | | | Metformin is normally a drug given to diabetics but it |
| Remember that some cases of PCOS are mild | | | | can also be used to help with PCOS infertility. This |
| enough that pregnancy can be achieve with little to | | | | medication helps to restore ovulation, but doesn't |
| no help. Because this is a possibility PCOS couples | | | | necessarily help to conceive. That's why sometimes a |
| (both the man and woman) should rule out other | | | | combination of clomiphene and Metforim are given if |
| causes of infertility before moving forward with | | | | the Clomid or Metforim doesn't respond alone. |
| treatment. This means that if she has PCOS her | | | | When the medications fail to bring about a positive |
| physician should go ahead and run some fertility tests | | | | pregnancy invasive treatments can be tried such as |
| to make sure that all other forms of infertility are not | | | | IVF or in-vitro fertilization. Sometimes if the eggs are |
| there, including having the man checked for male | | | | difficult to harvest, donor eggs can be used. |
| factor infertility. Once cleared of all other problems, | | | | |