I have been doing acupuncture for well over a year. I find it to be very emotionally helpful, sort of like therapy! My acu dr is wonderful & wants to hear about what's happening each week. (Sometimes DH doesn't even want to know the latest...) It's relaxing & I feel like I am being cared for. These matter in life, esp when TTC because it's so stressful and overwhelming.
It's harder to quantify the results in other ways, though. My FSH was lower the most recent time it was checked (7.2 about a month ago); a year ago it was 28. The tricky thing with FSH is that it fluctuates & western drs believe that the highest number it ever reaches is the truest reading. Western drs don't think you can do anything to lower FSH because they say it reflects the ovarian reserve and since you can't make any more eggs, you can't change that. Acu drs do feel like acu can lower FSH & improve reproductive function, so there's disagreement amongst the different types of medicine/practice. No shocker there! There are studies about how acu is helpful for fertility, higher successful ivf transfer rates, etc., but I don't know that there is any scientific study that shows this with regards to lowering FSH.
I've been taking loads of CoQ10, DHEA, rasp leaf tea, some royal jelly & haven't gotten pg yet, even with fertility meds and IUIs. I'll be moving on to the really big guns IVF, most likely with donor eggs, if my last IUI doesn't work. I may just be a "tough" case. Who knows. But there is another thread on here about a woman (notrustyyet) who had success with supplements, so it is possible. Can't recall if she did acu or not.
Good luck to you!!
