Hearing you have blocked tubes can leave you with questions you never thought to ask your doctor. This web page can answer many of those and let you know that there is hope for a nonsurgical resolution to your problem.
In the past, doctors thought patients with blocked tubes could never conceive a child naturally. For years, their advice was to remove blocked tubes and undergo IVF, find a surrogate to have the pregnancy in your place or simply adopt a child. That is no longer the case.
Recent advances in healthcare have examined a bodywork shown to clear blocked fallopian tubes and yield natural pregnancies at rates similar or better than IVF. Hundreds of women have conceived babies naturally, sometimes with successive children without turning to strong pharmaceuticals, surgery or other expensive options.
Peer-reviewed studies show Clear Passage️ has decreased or eliminated adhesions throughout the pelvis and abdomen. Our focus is to detach the tiny but powerful collagen fibers that comprise adhesions from each other by dissolving the bond that attaches them. In doing so, the adhesions tend to unravel and dissipate, much like pulling out the run in a three-dimensional sweater.
In the RIGHT IMAGE (After Therapy), dye fills a uterus that has been freed from constricting adhesions (in green circle). The increased mobility creates a much more relaxed organ, one that is much more capable of accepting an implanted embryo and carrying it to full term.
Clear Passage️ is a world leader with over three decades of experience opening and returning full function to blocked fallopian tubes (including swollen tubes) without surgery. The therapy, which can feel like a deep massage, has been shown to decrease the adhesions that are the primary cause of blocked tubes. These internal scars can form after a surgery, injury, infection, or endometriosis. They can act like a glue in the female reproductive tract, blocking fallopian tubes, binding or squeezing structures like internal straitjackets.
Over 1,000 babies have been born to women diagnosed infertile after treatment at Clear Passage️ clinics. In published studies, the therapy has been shown to open totally blocked fallopian tubes in most women, followed by one or more natural pregnancies for many of them. We cannot open tubes that were intentionally closed by a surgeon. Women with tubes that were surgically closed and never reopened may benefit from our pre-IVF therapy.
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This section examines scientifically verified choices available to you with procedures, success rates and costs. It can help you make the best choices for yourself, your partner and your future family. Statistical data is included where available. Footnotes quote reliable sources such as the CDC and PubMed (NIH) indexed studies; costs are from cited sources where available. The least invasive techniques are often the least expensive.
Notes: We open blocked fallopian tubes in 68.9% of women with no prior tubal surgery. Since 56.64% became pregnant, the calculated pregnancy rate for most women (those with no prior tubal surgery) is 39.02%. If your tubes were ever cut by a scalpel or laser, your rate would be about half of that.
Ongoing: After therapy opens one or both tubes, there is no need for additional therapy. Several women have reported two or more successive pregnancies up to six years after a single 20-hour session opened their tube(s). We only recommend additional therapy if there is obvious improvement (dye goes further through tube) but tube did not clear.
Notes: Data from the CDC shows 30.87% is the U.S. national pregnancy rate after eliminating fertility preservation from the equation. Fertility preservation refers to freezing embryos, eggs, ovarian tissue, sperm, or testicular tissue for future reproduction. v
Ongoing: IVF aims to create one pregnancy. If no pregnancy ensues or the couple wants a second child, part or the entire process must be repeated. If eggs or embryos have been frozen, repeat extraction and laboratory fertilization may not be required. Noting the frequent need for repeat IVF, medical studies have begun to report pregnancy rates for multiple IVF cycles. A recent study in Fertility and Sterility noted pregnancy rates decrease significantly after four IVF failed attempts vi. A study from JAMA gives pregnancy rates for up to and beyond six IVF cycles. vii
Timing: CP therapy should be completed at least two weeks before the start of ovarian stimulating medications. IVF embryo transfer must be performed within 15 months of CP therapy. With this 15-month gap, some women choose to start with CP therapy, knowing that it will improve their chance with a subsequent IVF if CP therapy (alone) does not result in the child they desire.
To ensure proper function of your reproductive structures, your doctor has almost certainly ordered an x-ray dye test (hysterosalpingogram, or HSG) or ultrasound to investigate whether your fallopian tubes are patent, meaning that your tubes are open. If one or both tubes are partially or completely blocked, egg and sperm cannot meet easily or at all, complicating or preventing a natural pregnancy.
Conditions such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) from sexually transmitted infections, surgery or injury to your vagina, coccyx (tailbone), low back, or pelvis and endometriosis can all cause the internal scarring that may block fallopian tubes.
In a totally blocked tube, sperm and egg will never meet to create a natural pregnancy. Natural pregnancy cannot occur unless the tube is first opened by surgery or a manual physical therapy (discussed further down this page).
Partial blockage can be dangerous because your fertilized egg can become trapped and implant on the inner wall of the tube rather than the wall of the uterus. Referred to as an ectopic pregnancy, this can be life-threatening and never creates a viable pregnancy. Generally diagnosed by pelvic pain and pregnancy test, an astute ER physician can inject methotrexate, a drug that kills the embryo but may save your tube. If you ever develop pelvic pain bad enough to send you to the ER, be sure to inform the doctor if there is a chance you may be pregnant. If not caught early, your tube may be damaged beyond repair and could potentially have to be removed, often via emergency surgery.
After adhesions first form, they can remain in the body for a lifetime. When they form at the distal end of the tube (near the ovary), they can cause swelling of the tube in a condition called hydrosalpinx. Adhesions can form or spread into any part of the tube, and anywhere in the pelvis. Wherever they form, they can squeeze reproductive structures or attach them to other structures, further decreasing fertility.
Do not lose hope; you still have choices. We suggest you accept you and love the body you have, then learn all you can to create the life and family you want. Using your brain, heart and intuition, give yourself permission to move forward to create the life and family you envision for yourself now, and for the future.