Therapy to Decrease FSH & Improve Hormone Levels
New studies we are beginning:
When we first began, we assumed that we could not affect hormone levels. We could understand how we might help sperm met egg, by decreasing the 'mechanical' blocks to that process (adhesions, blocked fallopian tubes, mechanical problems with the cervix, endometriosis). But treating those conditions was a far cry from hormonal conditions, like high FSH. In fact, we regularly refused therapy to women who came to us with only hormonal factors, and no mechanical problems.
But once again, our patients helped us realize that we may be able to assist conditions we hadn't even considered. This happened when a women who had been diagnosed "menopausal" declined to report this to us before she came for therapy, then became pregnant naturally two months after therapy. It was only then that she revealed that she had been refused IVF three times, due to very high FSH. (Incidentally, she gave birth to that child and has now given birth to her second natural baby, with no further therapy after that one week at Clear Passage.)
Upon the urging of a research gynecologist, we began accepting women with high FSH and diagnosis of "old eggs" and tracked changes in FSH levels for these women. Remarkably, these pilot cases have shown very promising success rates, and significant decreases in FSH levels (or pregnancies) in well over 75% of the pilot cases we have measured. We measured every woman who reported high FSH values (greater than 10) before treatment and who followed up with post-treatment results. In the 16 pilot cases, 6 reported a natural pregnancy before completing a post-therapy blood test, including one woman who came to us at age 44, with an FSH of 33. Of the remaining ten women who completed a post-therapy blood test, nine of them reported decreased FSH after therapy. Most decreases were significant, with an average of 8 points in improvement.
We have been greatly encouraged by the success we have seen decreasing FSH levels for women reporting high FSH. We are further encouraged that most of these cases showed a very significant drop in FSH levels, after therapy. We have designed a full-scale study on reversing aberrant hormone levels, and look forward to conducting and writing that report. Once that has been completed and published, we will be able to make a more scientifically appropriate statement about our success rates in assisting high FSH levels.
