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Hi guys
A different topic this time? I have a friend who is on Clomid - for fertility, she has already one reflexology treatment (using her as a case study) but on her second treatment just before we started after taking my reflexology chair, towels, oils, powder, reflexology stool, in the pouring rain, she announced she was on the 2nd day of 5 tablets of Clomid. I felt uneasy about this and said I did not want to interrupt the 'medical' side of things going near her ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes whilst doing a treatment. I could have just avoided those areas but I felt completely uneasy about it and I always say 'if in doubt, don't!'. I did stress to her that after her 5 days of medication I would be happy to continue reflexology then. I have heard from my tutor it would have been fine to continue! I have heard from a midwife - don't treat, wait until she has takenmedication, I have heard from another reflexologist to stay away in early pregnancy and if on Clomid, anda woman who is quite well known on the internet (called the babymaker) that she has and will in future treat people on any medicationwhether for fertility or otherwise. I thought her comments were quite contraversial but I don't agree with her.What would you do ?
Has anyone turned a fertility client away?
Thanks in advance.

 

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Hello there Tracey

There are many different schools of thought in therapies on treating people who are undergoing fertility treatment, not to mention people who have cancer and indeed a range of other medical conditions. It can seem very confusing at times as you get different advice from different sources. My thoughts are:

a) advice from your tutor is worth a lot - this is the person who is going to teach you most of what you know about reflexology ie what you don't glean from books etc

b) having said this, it is important that you are comfortable giving a treatment, and if you feel out of your depth and worried then it's perfectly OK to say no

c) in the scenario where a client is having treatment of this sort I ask them to make their doctor or whoever aware that they are having reflexology - I believe in empowering the client and making them responsible for themselves

d) when you've passed at the end of your course, if you are interested in working in the field of fertility and pregnancy there are some excellent courses out there which will give you lots of extra knowledge and help you feel confident working in this area

You will find that people do not always realise that it's important to fill their therapist in on stuff, and they do forget to tell you quite key things. It's amazing what nuggets folk can drop in as you're doing the treatment! We're all human....... Anyway, good luck with the case studies.