Fertility Therapeutics

[Pharmer241]

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Hello, I am a community pharmacist who is looking to begin stocking fertility medications.

I know there are not any "guidelines" for fertility treatment, but are there any references to read up on how to treat infertility and how the drugs come into play. I can't seem to find much of anything in textbooks or literature.

Thanks

 

[FarscapeGirl]

I'd look up the fertility awareness method, or FAM. It's one of the first things women use when they're trying to get pregnant (cervical fluid charts, basal temperature charts, etc.). If you're going to talk to women about fertility drugs, they've likely tried all that before, and they pepper their conversations with the terms. As well, they may have questions about how fertility drugs affect their basal temperature, etc.

Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler is a lay book, but it might be helpful in this area (and it's also less that $15). I didn't read the whole thing, but it did have a section on the drugs and how they work.

I'm sure there's a more professional source (reviews of fertility drugs through PubMed?), but that might get you started.

 

[sakigt]

I dont have a great all around reference but some quick googling netted me this which appeared pretty good: http://elearning.pharmacist.com/Por...82c6acc9/assets/120522_Smith_final layout.pdf The BCPS review had some basic stuff as well...

By fertility medications I suppose you mean the injectables. For the most part doctors give their patients specific day to day instructions that can change frequently. As a pharmacist I would expect to mostly help them out with the basics, reconstituting and injecting, safe needle disposal and storing requirements.

The drugs themselves can get a little confusing and the same drug could be used for completely different reasons: ie: Lupron used to surpress ovulation during stimming or Lupron used as a "trigger shot" for the LH surge that follows to signal ovulation.