Join Free newsletters and more Addicted to Hope Wise words about when to accept that conceiving a child may not be possible. The issue of stopping treatment is a concern for couples who are taking fertility drugs alone or in combination with an ART procedure. Many couples report that the addiction lies in the hopefulness at the beginning of each new cycle. However, as each menstrual flow arrives, the despair gets deeper and deeper until you can't dig yourself out.
Treatment is like being addicted to a miracle.
Before you begin your treatment, you should set down your own financial and time limits. Some couples plan for three clomiphene citrate cycles and one IVF cycle. You should then discuss a fallback plan in case treatments don't work. For this couple, oral contraception was the only way they could get on with their lives. The Issue of Failure For some, stopping treatment is admitting defeat or failure.