Difference between Clomid and injectable medications

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Difference between Clomid and injectable medications

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Clomid is often the first-line therapy for treatment in patients who do not ovulate or who ovulate and have had some difficulty to encourage more eggs to be produced each month. It is not uncommon to have a general gynecologist prescribe this. It's a very easy medication to take. It's oral. You take it for 5 days out of the menstrual cycle. And it can be effective. The caveat is that it is does come with some side effects than injectable medications, for example. Injectable medications, or follicle-stimulating hormone, is the same hormone that the brain and the body already produces anyway. So it's not really an anti-estrogen. It's supplementing and therefore increasing the number of follicles.
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David Tourgeman, MD

Infertility Specialist

Education
 - Undergraduate: University of California, Santa Barbara.
 Medical School: University of Southern California.
 Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles County Women’s & Children’s Hospital. 
Fellowship: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility University of Southern California, Los Angeles County Women’s & Children’s Hospital.

Board Certification 
- Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
 Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Academic Appointments
 - Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
 University of Southern California School of Medicine.

Hospital Affiliations 
- Huntington Memorial Hospital 
St. John’s Health Center.

Awards
 - Wyeth-Ayest Award of the Pacific coast Reproductive Society, April 1999. 
Serono In-Training Award for the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, April 2000
. Ortho- Mcneil Poster Award Obstetrical and Gynecological Assembly of Southern California, February 2011.
 Serono In-Training Award for the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, April 2001. 
Fellow Award, co-author Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, April 2001.

Professional Organizations - 
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
 American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 
Pacific Coast Reproductive Society
 Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

Areas of Research and Publication
 - Assisted reproductive technologies and oocyte donation in women of advanced
 reproductive age. 
Advanced reproductive fertility surgery. 
Alternatives for enhancing embryo implantation
. Evaluation of ovulation induction agents. 
Vaginal hormone administration.

Languages Spoken
 - English, 
French, &
 Spanish.

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Clomid is often the first-line therapy for treatment in patients who do not ovulate or who ovulate and have had some difficulty to encourage more eggs to be produced each month. It is not uncommon to have a general gynecologist prescribe this. It's a very easy medication to take. It's oral. You take it for 5 days out of the menstrual cycle. And it can be effective. The caveat is that it is does come with some side effects than injectable medications, for example. Injectable medications, or follicle-stimulating hormone, is the same hormone that the brain and the body already produces anyway. So it's not really an anti-estrogen. It's supplementing and therefore increasing the number of follicles.
ALL PARENTS