Welcome to FertilityTV, your YouTube channel dedicated to everything fertility and helping you
get pregnant. Today I'm bringing you another real live case of a woman that I helped get pregnant.
In this video we're going to be talking about Clomid, trigger shots, endometriosis and a
seven year struggle of fertility and not being able to get pregnant during those seven years.
If you're new here, then my name is Dr. Mark Sklar, the fertility expert,
and I help couples from all over the world get pregnant through my virtual online programs
and consultations. So in this video, you're going to be hearing from Katelyn. She was 31 when she
started to get pregnant and she was told that she only had a 50% chance of getting pregnant.
A little funny note to mention here is that Katelyn's mother-in-law was actually
the one who found my YouTube channel and found my videos. She's the one who shared them with
Katelyn, and that's why she started working with me on her fertility journey. So if you're a friend
or family member researching on YouTube, to help someone you love, then share this video with them
because this might be exactly what they need. Before we get started, I have an announcement and
an invitation for you. If you've been trying for over six months, this is what you've been waiting
for. I want to invite you to a free fertility training, where I will teach you the five steps
for a positive pregnancy that I used with her and thousands of other women that I helped get
pregnant. There are so many things that you can do to improve your fertility that you might not
be doing because nobody told you. Register for free at marcsklar.com/positivepregnancy
to save your spot for my free training. Now let's get started with her story.
I was 31 years old when we started working with him. And previously we had been trying
for just about six years or so. We had gone through rounds and rounds of Clomid,
I had done trigger shots and they found I had cysts rupturing. I didn't know what it was and so
we found that out. We went with another doctor who decided to go in and search
and see if I had endometriosis, which I did, it was on my ovaries,
it was everywhere where he tried to get as much as he could, but he couldn't get it all. He was the
same doctor, he's kind of a little old school, he [inaudible 00:02:34] my ovaries [inaudible
00:02:36] the cysts off my ovaries. And then at that point he decided right after the surgery
would be the best time to start trying again. So she's been trying for six years, she's now 31,
and over this time she's discovered that she has endometriosis and it was actually relatively
severe endometriosis, that she had ovarian that kept rupturing, which is extremely painful. And
they thought that this was the cause or the main causes for her fertility issues.
And so I had done four rounds of the Clomid trigger shots and the intrauterine inseminations.
And so often when this is the case, when you find cysts and endometriosis,
the recommendation is to do inseminations with Clomid, a trigger shot is typically standard as
part of that, and Clomid can be helpful. It also can cause all sorts of additional side effects
and concerns and issues. And in her case because of the endometriosis and the cyst, I'm not so sure
that that was the best path moving forward, given her history, but that's what she did.
After the fourth, nothing worked. I never was able to get pregnant. He sent us over to a fertility
specialist here in Fresno and he looked at everything and his opinion was that I would only
have a 56% chance of getting pregnant with IVF. And so now this was all done with her OB-GYN. Now
she was referred to a fertility specialist, which is really an IVF clinic and they were
recommending IVF and they were given a 50% chance that that would be effective.
My mother-in-law is actually the one who had been doing a bunch of research and she found Dr. Sklar.
Once we, I think it was June of 2019, we started working with him. And he immediately
to the whole situation. He is amazing. And he, through all the tests,
the labs and tests he had performed, he found several things within myself. My husband was...
His count was really high, but he had a low percentage of abnormal sperm,
but I had the endometriosis, hypothyroidism, my glucose was high, just several things that
the doctors hadn't been looking for or even would think to have it play a factor, I guess.
So, I looked deeper into her situation. Yes, we knew there was endometriosis. And yes,
we knew that she had ovarian cysts, but she'd also been trying after procedures to get pregnant. So
those should have addressed some of those issues and they didn't, or they didn't lead to pregnancy.
So I felt like there had to be something more. I also it's in my nature to want to just make sure
that we rule out everything else and it really would have been endometriosis and cysts. And in
her case, when we looked a little bit deeper, we found that was a thyroid issue, which can
make it much more difficult to actually conceive. And that there was a little bit of a male factor
that needed to also be addressed. It's not that the endometriosis and the cysts weren't issues,
they were, but she was doing a lot of things to address them. I just wanted to take it up a
notch so that she was really having a well rounded approach to managing her endometriosis and cysts.
And then in addition to that, supporting those other areas I just mentioned.
After this specialized plan, my husband and I sticked to it properly
and dr. Sklar would check in with us and we check my labs as we went on
to make sure like my thyroid was in place. And there was talk of, I had started with him.
So she's correct. She jokes about it, but her and her husband were hardcore about it, meaning that
they followed through with everything that I said. And they were very strict with themselves because
they were determined to get the results that they wanted. In addition to that, just because
you put somebody on some things, it doesn't mean that doesn't need to be monitored, right?
We want to make sure that we're seeing the results that she should be seeing and that I would like to
see. And sometimes things need to be adjusted as we start to see that progress and results. And
that's exactly what we continue to do with her. Natural supplement for that. And there was,
he had said, if it wouldn't come down, I would need to go on medication. And
thankfully it did come down. So it's like some would say natural, which I had wanted to do.
I want to make a note here. What she's referring to here is her thyroid. And one of
the bigger challenges with thyroid treatment is that sometimes with a natural approach,
we can't control it enough, that it's not stable enough to keep it where it needs to be
ongoingly for a considerable amount of time and into the pregnancy. And so I always told
her in the beginning, which was, we're going to try naturally, but if we can't,
then we will have to go to the medication route of things. And we're going to have to coordinate that
with her physician there to make sure that everything's taken care of and monitored properly.
Luckily in her case, we were able to manage that naturally. Sometimes it's not possible. And each
situation is different and unique in its own way. But I was okay with, if I needed it to do it.
The number one thing that stands out to me and still sticks with me is when we
first were talking with him during conversation, I had told him I'm not going to hold it against him
if I don't get pregnant, but I just want to be healthy. We were also going through the adoption
process at the same time, and then we found out we were pregnant that August. So last August,
we knew deep down that this was going to lead to us getting pregnant. And I know
when we first met with him, he said, I can't guarantee a 100%
that I can get you there. But he gave us so much more hope than Western medicine can do.
So one of the things that Katelyn pointed out was that they just wanted hope, right? They wanted
hope that they were doing the right things, that there was a chance that they could conceive.
And that's one of the number one things that I did for her is restored that belief in herself
and their ability to conceive, which restored her hope. Additionally, what I did promise to
her is that after working together is that she would be much healthier than she was before and
be much better able to get pregnant and carry a pregnancy. I could never guarantee that she would
get pregnant, but I could guarantee that she would be in a much healthier place to make that happen,
which is what happened. And as she mentioned, they were trying to also adopt simultaneously.
Not just, okay, let's focus on pumping you at drugs to try and get you pregnant, but he cares
about the whole system. Going from an opinion of a top fertility specialist of saying you only
have 56% chance. So working with Dr. Sklar and him saying, "I'm pretty sure I can get you pregnant,
I've worked with people like this before", it was like night and day. I'm like, what? How is
this possible? He down to my labs, down to the T he had it specialized and the plan for us.
Everything needs to be specialized. You all are unique individuals with unique circumstances,
unique environments. And we can't just take anybody's plan or any recommendations we find
on Google, or that our friend tells us and make them our own, because as you can hear,
she had all of these extenuating circumstances that needed to be accounted for. As you all do,
right? And she also needed someone to look at her lab work uniquely and individually for her,
and then pick out how that was going to be formulated a plan for her
specific needs. And that's exactly what I was able to do. And it's exactly what you all deserve.
Yeah, I believe that led to us getting pregnant. Yeah, I was so excited to reach out to him,
to let him know that we were pregnant. And then I had sent him an email after we had our daughter
[inaudible 00:11:36] yeah, to just share with him, because I know like
he really does put his [inaudible 00:11:45] Those are my favorite times. My favorite times
when I get those emails, those messages that we're pregnant or here's my baby announcement, those
are so precious to me. And that's what keeps me motivated is individuals like Katelyn and all of
you who are on this path, on this mission to grow your families. And I'm on a mission to help you
get there, but doing it the right way. Preferably the natural way. These messages mean so much to me
and I want to hear those messages from all of you. I want to know from all of you, if you've been
able to get pregnant through the support that I've given here on these videos in any other way. And I
look forward to at some point in time, getting more messages just like that from all of you.
Katelyn's reproductive and fertility issues might be unique to her, but her story is not unique.
Her struggle is not unique. Her journey is not unique. You all watching have had
a similar struggle and journey, but I want to make your process easier, simpler and not as long.
And I want to make it unique to use that you have the most optimal chance to get pregnant naturally
and have a healthy pregnancy and baby. So after watching the video, here are some key points that
I want you to take away from it. She had been trying for seven years and nobody looked at
her thyroid or told her how important her thyroid was to her reproductive health and fertility. And
additionally, nobody told her how to manage her endometriosis, that eating the right foods was
so important and that lifestyle choices at home and home therapy techniques like vaginal steams
were so valuable to her progress. I don't want you to go through seven years either.
I'm on a mission to help you understand your fertility and your root causes so you can start
to fix them now. And that's why I want to invite you to a free training where I teach you the five
steps to a positive pregnancy, just like I did for her and thousands of other women that I helped get
pregnant. There are so many things that you can be doing to improve your fertility that you don't
even know about because no one's ever mentioned it to you. I'd love to teach you everything that
I did for Katelyn and other women so that you can get pregnant as well, but I can't do it all
in this video. So I want you to register for this free training at marcsklar.com/positivepregnancy
so that you can reserve your free spot. In my free training I'm going to teach you real, actionable
steps that you can start to implement right away. My objective is to help you create your own
personalized fertility plan based on your needs to help you get pregnant naturally. If you've been
trying for six months or more, or if you're over 30, it's time to take action now and do something
different to improve your fertility. Trust me when I tell you that this fertility training could be
the difference between having a positive pregnancy test in the next year or continuing down the same
path you have previously, I'm on a mission to help you take control of your fertility, click
right here to reserve your spot so that I can help you too. I believe that there's always hope and
I want you to remember that I believe in you and your fertility and your ability to get pregnant.