10 steps to your dream

The preparation is crucial for a successful treatment. This stage takes place outside the clinic and therefore it is essential that you follow the doctor's recommendations precisely.

Your coordinator will be informing you about the time and dosage for your medicines.

First we synchronize your menstrual cycle with the donor’s cycle using special hormonal medication. Next comes the stimulation, during which you are supposed to take medicines and go through ultrasounds checks.

A doctor at ISIDA will analyze the tests data and will, if needed, correct doses of medications.

During the preparation most of our foreign patients do injections and some other procedures at home on their own.

It is better to have a professional help for the injections. But if you decide to do them yourself or with the help of your partner, please remember and follow these basic rules:

Please store the medications as instructed in the package leaflet. Store medicine in a cool dark place, for example, in the refrigerator door. But do not freeze it! Some medicine may lose their qualities after being unfrozen.

Please follow the prescriptions very carefully. Make notes on the time, kind of injections and doses you took.

Please double-check which injection you have to take — subcutaneous or intramuscular. Please contact your coordinator if you have any doubts.

IVF

(in vitro fertlization) — is an infertility treatment technique used in the case when the egg and the sperm cannot meet in a natural way. Fertilization is done at the lab and then the embryo is transferred into the woman’s body. If necessary donor materials can be recommended.

IVF+TESE

Assisted reproductive method when sperm got after testicular biopsy. Reproductologists use this method in case of male reproductive dysfunction, when sperm cannot be obtained in a regular way.

ASRM

American Society for Reproductive Medicine

ESHRE

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

ESGE

European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

IVF+ICSI

(Intracytoplasmic sperm injection) — an assisted reproductive method of treating severe cases of male infertility. For this purpose the sperm are selected under the microscope and then one by one are injected into each egg.

Ultrasound check

A way of producing an image of an organ inside somebody’s body using sound waves

IUI

Intrauterine insemination is used in case of slight disorders of the reproductive function of one of the partners. Sperm of the husband or donor sperm is put into the uterus and fertilization happens in a natural way.

Frozen embryo transfer

Assisted reproductive method when frozen from previous cycles material is used.

Egg Donation

Assisted reproductive technique when donor eggs of a healthy woman are used for fertilization.