An idea when treatment doesn't work

When we think of using complementary therapies for infertility, we always imagine using them to try to help get over a fertility problem, to get our bodies into the best condition for treatment, and then perhaps to calm and relax us once we are being treated. What we may not think about is turning to a complementary therapist if the treatment doesn't work, but this can be the time when they are really very helpful.

Most of us feel completely devastated when the fertility treatment we've invested so much hope and money in doesn't work. When you've been spending lots of time going to and from the clinic, you may feel isolated and abandoned if your treatment is unsuccessful, and it can seem as if no one is interested any more. Friends and family don't understand how awful you feel, and however much they try to say the right thing, they often end up making you feel worse.

This is perhaps when you could really do with the calming and relaxing effects of some kind of complementary therapy, not to mention the time to talk that you often get in a session with a therapist. It was during an interview I did with a homeopath for my new book just a few days ago that she mentioned how helpful homeopathy could be for people who'd been through treatment that hadn't worked - and it made me wonder why there wasn't more interest in using complementary therapies in this way. Perhaps it's partly because we are too often looking to them for miracle cures, rather than the calming support which they can so often provide.