This form of treatment uses fertility medications to induce ovulation and stimulate the development of egg production in women who have had difficulty conceiving.
Ovulating women typically produce one mature egg every 28 days. After this egg releases from the ovary, it travels into the Fallopian tube for fertilization. With ovulation induction medication, the number of oocytes can be increased.

Ovulation induction treatment is recommended for:

1. Women with unexplained infertility
2. Women with long, irregular or infrequent cycles
3. Women who are not ovulating
4. Couples with no male factor infertility
5. women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
6. Women with hormonal problems

Each patient responds differently to ovulation induction, which means that a balance must be struck between increasing the number of eggs to improve the chance of pregnancy while not producing too many to create ovarian hyperstimulation. Our patients are monitored closely with bloodwork and ultrasounds during ovulation induction to ensure medication dosing and response are appropriate. Because each medication has a different mechanism of action, they can be taken alone or in combination with each other.

The decision to prescribe one medication over another will depend on a woman’s menstrual history and what type of cycle our fertility experts have planned.

For Ovulation Induction (OI) Medicines may be as under:

1. Oral medications such as Clomid and Letrozole will either induce egg production in patients who are not
   ovulating or in some cases induce multiple egg production when it is desirable to do so.
2. Injectable medications that contain Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing hormone (LH) – which are hormones that stimulate follicle production in the ovaries – may be used to induce ovulation in patients who:
3. Are resistant or unresponsive to oral medication.
4. Who have attempted oral medications without success
5. Require extra egg production.