Merciér Therapy

I happened to stumble across Merciér Therapy on Facebook.  I am part of a local infertility group on Facebook and was scanning through recent posts.  The first thing I did was look it up to see what it was.

It is a manipulative therapy that is completed over a short period of time to get optimal results.  This was right along the path that I was taking, so I had to know more.

I called Karen, she was the therapist that pulled up in my area.  She was so sweet on the phone and I decided to go in for a 30 minute consultation to see what it was all about.

The purpose of Merciér therapy is to use a gentle, corrective massage therapy to create more blood flow and mobility of the uterus, ovaries and tubes.  It goes to the source of the challenge and fixes it.  This sounded much better to me than prescription drugs and injections!

Merciér therapy has to occur on a consistent basis to achieve maximum results.  It is kind of like physical therapy, just for your abdomen/reproductive area.

Karen suggested 12 sessions of therapy for a one month period which would mean 3 - 4 times a week.  There would be a 30 minute abdomen portion and an hour full body massage after that because she believes that the entire body works together, I agree with that logic as well.

While I was there she also asked if she could go ahead and feel around my abdomen area to see if she noticed anything.  While laying on the table she noticed that I had a lot of scar tissue on the right hand side of my abdomen (this is the side that the doctor in Tulsa told me he couldn't find my ovary).  She was confident that if we started the therapy that would break up that tissue.

She asked me if there had been anything in my life that I could think of as trauma to my body.  After further discussion I told her that I was in a car accident about 7 years ago, the right side would have been where my seatbelt was.  I also had a very hard fall a few years ago which was also concentrated on my right side.

We discussed timing since the 12 sessions need to be done in a very close time frame.  Karen was asked to go to Dubai to speak about Merciér therapy so we decided that I would start my treatment at the beginning of November.

I couldn't wait!