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Yes, IVF can be done without hormones, but the results are going to be lower compared to the ones where you get hormones.
An example would be a completely natural IVF cycle. We know that in these cases, the risk of performing the egg collection, and not getting the eggs could be really high. It’s even up to 50% of the cases, depending on the age and the patient’s indication.
Even when the clinics do a Natural IVF, they still use some low doses of gonadotrophins in the first phase of the cycles, and always they use hormones to trigger the ovulation. The timing between the ovulation when you’re collecting the eggs needs to be very precise.
Afterwards, as we know progesterone in Natural cycles should be within normal levels in the majority of cases. Despite knowing that, we recommend taking progesterone in excess, it is never an issue, but lack of progesterone may lead to a negative.
Taking a couple of pessaries in a natural IVF or an IUI just to be sure that the levels of progesterone are okay, it’s always a good thing to do. I wouldn’t rely on a completely natural cycle, except in very specific circumstances.
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Yes, we can do an IVF cycle without the use of hormones. We call this a natural cycle in which we make the most of endogenous hormonal production for the growth of the dominant follicles and obtain the oocyte later.
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Yes, of course you can do IVF without hormones. It’s what we call natural cycle IVF
How does it work? It works very simply: a woman takes nothing – she just calls the clinic when the cycle arrives and the clinic with ultrasound scans and blood tests monitors the cycle, monitors her follicle and when that’s ready we go for a pickup – egg retrieval.
The only maybe or not every in every case but sometimes we give the triggering – the final triggering in order to program the egg retrieval. Sometimes we can do it also naturally without giving neither the final triggering but in most cases we prefer it in order to program better the egg retrieval.
