"Towards the end of my fifth month of treatment, I became pregnant, meeting Dr. Wang’s prediction."

Stephanie Surles

At the beginning of 2001, my husband and I decided that we were ready to start a family.  This was something we had both wanted for a long time and we were excited to finally be in a place to make our dream a reality. 

We selected a midwife and began to discuss baby names. 

After getting a thorough checkup and speaking with my doctor, I went off birth control pills for three months before we started trying to conceive. 

My cycle was textbook perfect for the first two months so we were very surprised when the third month came and my period did not stop after the usual amount of time. 

Our surprise became concern when my period continued for a month straight.  I went back to my doctor, who initially told me that the bleeding must be caused by stress and not to worry.  I explained that my stress level was much lower than it had been in the past but she continued to say that stress was the culprit.

After several months of virtually continuous bleeding, I returned to my doctor.  Her reaction was completely different this time.  Cervical cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cysts were all mentioned as possibilities and I underwent numerous tests. 

After much worrying, all of the test results came back negative and my doctor was forced to admit she has no idea what was going on in my body.  She then offered to put me on drugs to force ovulation.  When I asked her if that meant I was not ovulating, she said she didn’t know if I was or not but that it was something we could try.  Since these drugs had several side effects I was not willing to risk (such as multiple pregnancies and ovarian cysts) and no one knew that I wasn’t already ovulating, I passed.

I then visited my midwife to see if she had any ideas.  She suggested acupuncture and mentioned Dr. Guoen Wang.  I had never had acupuncture before and did not know much about it.  I decided to go to one appointment and then make up my mind whether to go again.

It is not an exaggeration to say that I went into my first appointment with Dr. Wang with a lot of skepticism about acupuncture and a lot of doubt about my ability to have children. 

I was very surprised to hear Dr. Wang say that he believed I would become pregnant in six months.  He answered my questions about both acupuncture and the herbs he recommended I take, even referring me to books I could read to learn more.  I decided to return for another appointment.  Imagine my surprise and delight when the bleeding stopped for the first time in months!

I continued to see Dr. Wang and was able to chart the improvement in my cycle. 

Towards the end of my fifth month of treatment, I became pregnant, meeting Dr. Wang’s prediction. 

Words simply cannot describe how excited my husband and I were!  I had a few visits to Dr. Wang during the pregnancy, first to relieve my morning sickness and then to help my body prepare for labor.  The acupuncture helped with both.

We are now the proud parents of a beautiful and healthy baby girl.  I am absolutely convinced that the combination of acupuncture and herbs helped us to conceive her.

Addendum

In 2004, my husband and I decided to add to our family. 

We assumed it would take at least several months to conceive our second child.  We both visited Dr. Wang for a “tune-up” appointment.  

Imagine our surprise when we discovered we were pregnant in just one month!  In January of 2005, our second daughter was born.  We feel truly lucky and remain convinced that acupuncture and herbs helped us conceive our children.

"That day, just to make sure, Julie went back

to the fertility clinic to get a blood

test – she was pregnant!!"

Lee and Julie

We first met Dr. Wang in December 2003, based on the recommendation of a close friend. We had been unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant for two years.

We had first tried conceiving the “normal” way for about six months with no success, so Julie consulted her OB/GYN, who put her on the fertility drug Clomid. We continued to try the “normal” way with the assistance of Clomid for about six months.

In March 2003, we decided to visit a fertility clinic.

We were advised to continue taking Clomid along with starting monthly inseminations. We tried this method for three months to no avail.

The fertility specialist recommended that the next step we needed to take was to inject fertility drugs to control ovulation. Lee would give Julie injections nightly and then Julie would have to go in for bi-weekly blood tests to measure hormone levels in order to time the final injection that would stimulate ovulation.

Needless to say, this process was very stressful, but we were hopeful. Again, we found ourselves disappointed and not pregnant – not to mention that each month of injections costs over $1000.

The next month, we tried the injection process again with no success. We were informed by the fertility specialist that our only option was In Vitro Fertilization. While IVF is a miracle for some people, we were very reluctant to go forward with this process for several reasons.

Among them, we were uncomfortable with all of the injections and manipulation of the woman’s body that would be necessary. Also, our insurance did not cover IVF, so we would need to spend somewhere around $10,000 - $12,000 out of pocket for a process that has around a 50% success rate.

Because of these reasons, we decided to take a few months “off” from the whole fertility thing to do a little thinking and soul searching.

It was during this time that a friend of ours recommended that we go visit Dr. Wang.

While both of us are very open to alternative medical solutions, we were both reluctant to try again after so much disappointment in the past.

However, we decided to make an appointment with Dr. Wang. He made us feel very at ease during the appointment, explaining Chinese Medicine, herbs, and acupuncture and patiently answering our dozens of questions. He also gave us a complimentary acupuncture treatment and some herbs to take with us.

We were both impressed with his friendliness and his calm, peaceful, and caring demeanor.

We spent the next couple of weeks researching acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. In the meantime, Dr. Wang called us to say that he would like to visit with us again.

We went in for our next appointment, during which he told us that we were both healthy and that he was confident that we were capable of conceiving; in fact, he felt that it would take no longer than nine months.

He told us what he could do for us, along with giving us a very reasonable cost estimate. What really took us by surprise was when Dr. Wang said that he was so confident we would be successful, that if Julie was not pregnant within nine months, he would refund all of our money. This really amazed us – how could he be so sure of this, when we had endured so many setbacks over the previous two years?

After doing some more research and thinking, we decided that we would go forward – after all, we’d been trying to become pregnant for two years – what’s nine more months? What have we got to lose?

We went back to see Dr. Wang to begin treatments. Both of us took various herbs that Dr. Wang prescribed, and both had acupuncture treatments.

Both of us were surprised at how painless the treatments were, and how calm and relaxed we felt afterwards. We continued treatments for a month or two. Dr. Wang was always calm and supportive, and projected the feeling of “everything’s going to be alright.”

We were so used to counting all the days since ovulation each month to see if we might have been lucky enough to conceive. However, we were not focused on counting days anymore.

Julie came to me one morning and said she had looked at he calendar the previous evening and that she was at 38 days – which was later than she had ever been. She had also taken a home pregnancy test – POSITIVE!!

That day, just to make sure, Julie went back to the fertility clinic to get a blood test – she was pregnant!!

We absolutely could not believe it – two years of disappointment, and only a month or so with Dr. Wang's treatment of herbs and acupuncture, and she was pregnant.

Dr. Wang continued to treat Julie weekly throughout her pregnancy, and nine months later, our beautiful daughter was born. Sarah Grace was 8 pounds, 5 ounces, 20 ½” long and very healthy.

After a month or so at home with the baby, Julie began going back for more treatments, which Dr. Wang graciously extended past our agreement at no extra charge.

It is now the Summer of 2005, and we have a beautiful, happy, healthy, 8 month old daughter, and Julie is happy and healthy as well.

We are so glad that we went to see Dr. Wang a year and a half ago. We have thought about the entire experience over and over and agree that there were several factors involved – among other things: Julie’s surgery, the thoughts and prayers of our loved ones, and of course, meeting Dr. Wang.

Whatever it was – the herbs, the acupuncture, the lack of stress and sense of calm we had after visiting Dr. Wang, or a combination thereof; it does not really matter – we both honestly feel that we would not have been blessed with Sarah Grace if we had not crossed paths with Dr. Wang.

We also feel strongly that Dr. Wang had a big part in Julie’s pregnancy being a relatively smooth one. We also believe that the treatments helped her prepare for an un-medicated birth, contributed to the health of our daughter, and also had a big part in Julie’s emotional and physical recovery after delivery.

In sum, we both highly recommend Dr. Wang, especially if you have gone through the frustration of infertility like we did.

Thanks, Dr. Wang!! 

Lee and Julie

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