Q&A: Can I try artifical insemination if I have PCOS?

by Dr. Gerard M. DiLeo

As a 38-year-old single female, I am eager to have a baby before I turn 40. I am not currently in a committed relationship, and would like to know what steps I need to take if I want to try artificial insemination. I also have been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).

There are three obstacles here:

  1. PCOS. Your healthcare provider will probably prescribe Metformin to alter your insulin resistance and help you ovulate. He or she may also put you on Clomid to enhance ovulation itself.
  2. Finding a reproductive endocrinologist (RE) who will allow you to use the services to establish a single-parent pregnancy. The same RE could take care of both of these problems.
  3. Your age. Infertility is much more problematic after age 35 in that you will less frequently have a good egg produced to conceive with, so it may take longer, which is a factor already of concern.
It's going to be difficult but not insurmountable. Hopefully, the right RE will be able to help treat your infertility issues.

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