Fertility Drugs Fertility drugs have helped many couples realize their dream of conception. Fertility drugs work by stimulating the ovaries to produce a mature egg. They do this in one of two ways. Some fertility drugs work in your brain to produce more of the hormone that triggers ovulation. Your brain then signals your ovaries to produce a mature egg and get it ready to be released. Multiple eggs may be released. This is particularly helpful to women with irregular menstrual cycles, irregular ovulation, or other ovulation problems. Fertility drugs that work in the brain to stimulate your ovaries are clomiphene and letrozole. These are given in pill form.
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Other fertility drugs work by stimulating your ovaries themselves to produce an egg. These contain the hormones that tell your ovaries to mature and then when to release an egg. Multiple eggs may also be released with this method. These drugs are helpful for women who have had no success with clomiphene or letrozole. They are also helpful to women who have an unexplained fertility problem, or who are undergoing other assisted reproductive procedures. Fertility drugs that work to stimulate your ovaries are called gonadotropins. These are given by injection. Both types of fertility drugs have also proven helpful to men with fertility issues relating to sperm count and quality. The hormones that control female ovulation also control the production of sperm in men. Regulating these hormones can help to increase sperm count and sperm quality.
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