Lack of ovulation

• FSH


  Follicle Stimulating Hormone
• Artificial FSH treatment


  1. Egg matures

  2. Oestrogen is produced

  3. Artificial form of LH is used to trigger ovulation
• IVF


  In Vitro Fertilisation, a form of fertility treatment used when the fallopian tubes have been damaged or blocked
• IVF process


  1. Synthetic FSH is used to stimulate mature eggs

  2. Eggs are collected from the ovary

  3. Eggs are fertilised with sperm

  4. Fertilised eggs are kept in a special solution to develop into embryos

  5. 1 or 2 embryos are inserted back into the uterus
• IVF Advantages


  • Chance to have a child
• IVF Disadvantages


  • IVF is expensive
  • IVF is not always successful
  • Fertility drugs have health risks
  • IVF process is emotionally and physically stressful
  • Multiple births increase risks
• Some women don't make enough FSH to stimulate the maturation of the eggs in the ovaries
• Some men produce very few sperm so individual sperm may be injected into eggs during the IVF process
• The fertilised eggs are kept in a special solution to develop into tiny embryos
• IVF increases the chance of multiple pregnancy