You might hear of and familiar with fertility treatment during a conversation with couples and families. In ancient tradition, visiting a fertility clinic is a shame more than a blessing. Have you ever noticed the fertility centre in Malaysia? If you have, you will realize that the city centre has the most fertility clinic, for instance, there are many gynaecologists or fertility clinic in KL.
A. Infertility Treatment is Acceptable in this Modern era
Here is not speaking about openness but humanity. People with illness and sickness must meet a doctor for a wish of healing. Couple with incapability must go to meet the infertility treatment specialist for a wish of pregnancy.
The myth is playing with people perception that formed up social bias since ancestors’ era. However, the generation has changed to more kindness towards infertility which is close to reality. You may go for a male fertility test with or without people acknowledgement nowadays freely.
B. Finger Cross with the Cost of Treatment
Treatment and prescription are not cheap overall. Some of the treatment and prescription cost much more than the living expenses. Here will keep finger cross to the price paid and the result of treatment and prescription. Read further below to know more about the common expenses in the fertility clinic.
1. IVF Treatment
IVF is a brief medical term of In-Vitro Fertilisation. IVF is a popular treatment nowadays especially citizen. IVF treatment is not likely affordable as the other available treatment and it is not with a guaranteed result.
However, IVF is still the choice among the couples especially the senior citizen above 35 years old, although the rate of success is recognized by the majority in the public. Also, you must expect the IVF cost in Malaysia is around RM 15,000 to RM 20,000 per cycle.
2. IUI Treatment
The IUI is one of the fertility treatments that insert the sperm harvested form the male body to the fallopian tube. The IUI in medical term long term is Intrauterine Insemination. IUI enhance the fertility rate by decreasing the sperm swimming distance to the eggs.
IUI incurred cost too. But it is not as expensive as the IVF, and it considers affordable for most of the people. IUI cost a few hundred to thousand, which is in the range of RM800 to RM3000.
3. Sperm Test
Sperm test is common, but it is a very shy topic for most of the men. Semen analysis in the sperm test will discuss four main things, which are the sperm count, sperm motility, sperm progression and sperm morphology. This is a good indication of man fertility. Sperm test cost is diverse from a hundred to multiple thousand, it depends on your quality of treatment.
4. Egg Freezing
Many young women may have the choice of protecting their eggs since young for future fertilization. Nowadays people get married at an older age and to have a baby at the age of 35 is likely difficult. Egg freezing is a good solution for this however, the egg freezing cost around thousand and needs commitment for storage fees monthly.
C. Common Cause for Women to Infertile
If a man is all about swimming sperm then the woman is having a more complex mechanism that involves eggs, uterus, and fallopian tube. Women in citizen easily have tension that causes bad health. The most common cause is PCOS and endometriosis.
PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. It is an irregular release of eggs, abnormal menstrual period, heavy cramps and period pain for weeks. This is very common for a woman even though some happened since the young age of 12!
Endometriosis is having the abnormal growth of tissue outside the uterus. This can cause period pain. Consultation to an endometriosis specialist is a must for serious sickness.