- Just like every other disease or disorder, the first step towards restoring health is its diagnosis. The success rate of the treatment is directly proportional to its diagnosis. The sooner the diagnosis is made, the sooner the patient can recover. It is the universal rule and applies to infertility also. The sooner the reason for infertility is discovered, the different way of childbirth can be explored, and the couple has more time to take treatments and think of assisted pregnancy methods.
- It is not only at the beginning of the treatment that the couple should seek a second advise, but also during the procedure. It is essential that you know the improvements that you have gone through during the whole treatment cycle. A doctor will always be positive towards the treatment that he has offered you and hope for the desired results, but it is essential that the progress of the treatment is cross-checked once by an exteal neutral doctor. Hence the couple should take an alteative opinion.
- There can be several treatments that can be given to the same infertility issue. Every doctor has his own convenient treatment flow that has yielded him with positive results in the past and trusted that method. It is a natural tendency of any doctor to use the same treatment method for other patients too. But everyone has different bodies and different ways of reacting to the same process. So what worked for someone else might not work for you.
- When you seek a second opinion, you come to know the various treatment at your disposal. This helps you evaluate the expenses, the time and the side-effects (if any ) of the different procedures and of the different doctors. Since different doctors have suggested different treatments at different costs and also have different success rates, you can choose the shorter duration treatment, the cheaper doctor fees, pick the clinic with more facilities, and the doctor with the maximum success rate and above all choose the doctor which your instinct suggests.
