Before In Vitro Fertilization is commenced, a combination of fertility drugs and surgery are utilized to help set off the treatment. Drugs can help set off egg making for a woman who has erratic or no monthly ovulation, that is when an egg is produced and released every month.

While pregnancy is achievable just by using fertility drugs, combining interventions such as Intrauterine Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization is quite normal. Probably the most extensively used fertility drug today, and the earliest, is Clomid or to give it the proper name Clomiphene Citrate. Used as a tablet, it tells your brain that you are not making enough estrogen, which then stimulates your ovaries into making eggs.

Surgery used to be common when In Vitro Fertilization and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection treatments were less progressive and available, but an operation can still assist infertility in some situations. Often the fallopian tubes may get clogged or inflamed, possibly even marked from infections such as Chlamydia, and this is where surgery can still be of use. There are other cases where surgery is the best course of action, with situations such as Endometriosis, Fibroids and other conditions that involve the womb or fallopian tubes. Fortunately, these days keyhole surgical procedures is the norm and your physician at the fertility clinic will be the best individual to direct you on possible courses of action.

The use of drugs in male infertility is not as prominent as they are with treating infertility in women. Sometimes they may be given for men under unique circumstances. Although there is no definitive proof - from time to time men are prescribed vitamins C and E to assist sperm movement, and of course antibiotics for inflammation or infection. If you can't make any sperm, for example (you may have had a vasectomy or a failed reversal) a small operation known as surgical sperm retrieval can be carried out to withdraw the sperm from the Epididymis (where sperm are produced) or the testicles.

Fertility Drugs injected to stimulate ovulation do increase your chances of a multiple pregnancy and birth of twins, triplets or more. Many physicians will actually cancel a cycle if fertility drugs are being used in addition to Intrauterine Insemination as it raises the likeliness of multiple births if a large number of egg sacks are developed. This process of reducing the opportunities of multiple births is assisted by replacing one or two embryos when using In Vitro Fertilization treatment.

Because of the complexity of this subject, this article is only able to give a very short overview of the drugs and surgery available. If you and your partner are thinking about your options in this area, the first thing you must to do is contact your local fertility clinic.