infertility

One of the major drawbacks for women undergoing in vitro fertilization is that each cycle includes weeks of poking yourself in the butt and other places day after day. Even if you can take the pain physically, the financial pain associated with all those injections is rather extreme as well. Well, guess what? There may be some good news on the horizon if this has been one of the issues you’ve been dreading or that has been holding you back. On July 8, 2008, Reuters reported that in a recent study, corifollitropin alfa was slightly more effective than follitropin beta. Huh? you’re saying?? Don’t worry… Follitropin beta and corifollitropin alfa are both ovulation stimulating drugs which are injected - most often during in vitro procedures. Usually, when a patient undergoes treatment with follitropin, they receive an injection every day for seven days and the pregnancy rate per cycle is approximately 38.1 percent. With corifollitropin alfa, not only was the pregnancy rate a bit higher (38.9 percent), only one single injection was needed for the initial follicle stimulation process! Let’s see…. higher pregnancy rate AND only one shot… sounds like a no-brainer to me! Apparently, though, this drug may still be in trials but it’s definitely something to be watching for!

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