90 per cent of women getting wrong dose of fertility drugs
July 16, 2007 (EST)
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A new study has alarmingly found that more than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of fertility drugs meant to stimulate their ovaries.
A new study has alarmingly found that more than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of fertility drugs meant to stimulate their ovaries.
This, the researchers state, not only means that the drugs may not work properly, but also that they may be exposing women to a greater risk of side effects.
During each menstrual cycle, women usually release one egg. The number is however increased during IVF, by giving them drugs. The eggs are then collected surgically.
Geoffrey Trew of Hammersmith Hospital in London and his colleagues used a “dose calculator” to check the dose given to a woman according to her age, body mass index, the estimated number of eggs left in her ovaries, and levels of a hormone called FSH that triggers egg development.
They used the calculator to check the dosage given to 161, and found that 75 per cent were being given a higher dose than required, while 15 percent were being given a lower dose of the infertility drugs.
When 113 of the women were then given the right dose, an average of 10 eggs were harvested.
“That is the ideal number of eggs you would be looking for,” the New Scientist quoted Trew, as saying.
The findings of the study were presented at a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, last week. (ANI)
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I found this site very interesting indeed as Mr Geoffrey Trew performed a laparoscopy on my wife in Sept 2005, after the procedure she was in a lot of pain, sickness, loss of appetite. My Geoffrey Trew suggested that she was to be observed for 24 hours, yet as the hours turned into a few days she was getting increasingly worse, with spiking temperatures vomiting and in severe stomach pain. Mr Trew’s and Stuart Lavery’s idea was to manage my wife’s condition conservatively and that he would take good care of her. 10 Days passed she was still in hospital extremely unwell, Mr Trew announced that she was getting better and she would be discharged in the morning, that night my wife had a 10 hour emergency operation, left in I.C.U for 4 weeks fighting for her life with multiple organ failure 20% survival rate, after 4 weeks she was transferred to Torbay Hospital being barrier and quarantined nursed, she was discharged 13 months later after having 4 Major operations, came out on October 06 left disabled. We got no support from either of theses Doctors or the IVF Clinic, anyway not long now before wife situation becomes very public knowledge.
Regards. Darren Cox. My was 33 years of age when this happened.