The Effectiveness of Acupuncture on Headaches in Women Undergoing IVF Egg Stimulation

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Conditions studied: Headache, Stress (Psychology), Emotional Distress

In brief

To test the effect of acupuncture in treating headaches, as well as co-measures of stress and emotional distress, in participants during the hormonal stimulation phase prior to an oocyte retrieval. Subjects were identified females at birth experiencing a headache while undergoing a hormone stimulation cycle as part of in vitro fertilization or oocyte cryopreservation. Intervention was an individualized acupuncture treatment with needle retention for thirty minutes. Main outcome measured were headache intensity, level of stress, level of emotional distress.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07587398

Run by

Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

People needed

37

Starts

2023-02-27

Expected to finish

2024-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-14

Who can join

Age: 29 and older, up to 49. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• adult biological female
• participating in an active hormone stimulation cycle
• receiving acupuncture treatment for fertility support at SCRC in Beverly Hills with the second investigator
• experiencing a headache

You may not qualify if…

• participants undergoing a medicated IUI

Where it is running

• Southern California Reproductive Center — Beverly Hills, California, United States

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