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Traditional Chinese medicine treatments may help infertile couples to conceive.
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EDMONTON – Shane and Charlene Bissonnette, a married couple from Fort McMurray, had been trying for six years to have a baby.
They were opposed to in vitro fertilization (IVF) because of the incredible costs involved.
“I started looking into it, but it was really expensive. Around 2004 I started taking fertility pills and they just made me all crazy and I said ‘no, I can’t take these.’ So I stopped taking them and, obviously, still nothing happened,” said Charlene Bissonnette.
Then her mother told her another option that was less invasive, less expensive and more natural than resorting to IVF or endocrine therapy. She told her daughter about fertility treatment through acupuncture and taking Chinese herbs.
Chris Hogan, a Catholic acupuncturist, treats couples with infertility problems at The Acupuncture & Health Centre, 126-9704-39 Ave.
Hogan said he is shocked by the emotions of an infertile couple.
“You get this myriad of different ways of how people handle it. The female is usually more emotional because she has more instinct to have a baby. It’s an emotional roller-coaster ride,” he said.
Instead of being impatient and overwrought with emotion, those Catholics most successful in conceiving a baby have a prayer life to calm them.
“I came down for a consultation with Chris (Hogan) and Michaela (Lundberg), and they told me what it was all about.
“I’d waited six years, so what was a few more months? They told me it would take about six to 12 months probably. I was driving down from Fort McMurray every week for two appointments,” said Charlene.
“There were these herbs to take and they were all optional, and I took them. I could feel them working: I could tell that things were happening.”
If nothing else, she figured that the acupuncture would be healthy, and she could get her body into better shape than what it had been
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