July 07, 2009
Yesterday DH and I went to see 2 different RE’s about a donor egg IVF cycle. Now, the 1st one is here in our town and is “cheaper” than most places but seems to be a great place. Very kind, clean and I talked to a lady waiting there and she said the staff is unbelievable, however, she did disclose that the doc/office is often running behind and I hate that. I have left doctors for that. Its not that I think I cant wait, its that I have to leave work to go to the doc and although my boss is more understanding than most, I don’t want to be gone longer than I need to be.
Anyway, he would like to do a donor cycle but 1st wants to do the test on my uterus,intermin B to make sure all is well. Then, if not ok there will be a 3 month “treatment” of Lupron to put me in fake menopause for those 3 months. Then I would go right into the D/E IVF cycle. If all is fine with the test I would just go right into the cycle. They also mentioned that if we were not able to pay the fees they would “work with us”.....sounds great, right?!?!?! Apparently the docs wife is a lawyer so she is able to cut costs quite a bit with the donor cycles. The lady that handles it is gone on va-ca this week so I will talk with her next week about what the bottom line cost would be. We assume its about 10K cuz insurance will pay for everything after the retrieval, thank goodness.
The 2nd doc, much more expensive and way better success rates is about 45 min away from home. He was pretty arrogant but I guess who wouldn’t be considering his rates at the moment. He, like my other RE, does not do that test on the uterus because he doesn’t think it is worth the time and doesn’t believe that even with treatment it would matter. He would rather do the test where the camera goes up into the uterus and looks at stuff. He was surprised that we would even be considering a D/E cycle cuz we still have a 25% chance of conceiving with my eggs.... he said most people don’t consider a D/E cycle until the chances are 5% or lower. The success rate with my eggs would be 25% and with a donor would be 70% at this office. He also said that sometimes he turns people away from D/E cycles when their success would be 25% but he would let us do it if we wanted to.
I just talked with them and even tho we have insurance coverage we would have to pay everything up front and then try to get the insurance to give us the amount due to us after the retrieval. The cost of that would be 25K and that doesn’t include the medication or freezing or anything really. THEN she says to me that the amount I would prob get back is about $1,500.00 which makes no sense to me at all but whatever.
I have fibroids, at least 6 that they can catch with the u/s machine which shouldn’t be an issue cuz they are not around the lining where the baby would implant but he also said it could be an issue. He was talking out of both sides of his mouth really. DH and I really liked him and the clinic but this price stuff is just obnoxious!
We haven’t totally decided what we are gonna do and we talked about not making the decision based solely on money since this would be our “last chance” but the difference is just too much and I really think we will be going with a donor cycle over at the office in town here, that will actually bill to my insurance. However, I don’t think I will be going with the intermin B test if there is no reason to do it.
I would like to know if there is something wrong with the uterus whoch would hinder me carrying a child b4 going into another cycle.
Thx for listening and following me yet again.
Anyway, he would like to do a donor cycle but 1st wants to do the test on my uterus,intermin B to make sure all is well. Then, if not ok there will be a 3 month “treatment” of Lupron to put me in fake menopause for those 3 months. Then I would go right into the D/E IVF cycle. If all is fine with the test I would just go right into the cycle. They also mentioned that if we were not able to pay the fees they would “work with us”.....sounds great, right?!?!?! Apparently the docs wife is a lawyer so she is able to cut costs quite a bit with the donor cycles. The lady that handles it is gone on va-ca this week so I will talk with her next week about what the bottom line cost would be. We assume its about 10K cuz insurance will pay for everything after the retrieval, thank goodness.
The 2nd doc, much more expensive and way better success rates is about 45 min away from home. He was pretty arrogant but I guess who wouldn’t be considering his rates at the moment. He, like my other RE, does not do that test on the uterus because he doesn’t think it is worth the time and doesn’t believe that even with treatment it would matter. He would rather do the test where the camera goes up into the uterus and looks at stuff. He was surprised that we would even be considering a D/E cycle cuz we still have a 25% chance of conceiving with my eggs.... he said most people don’t consider a D/E cycle until the chances are 5% or lower. The success rate with my eggs would be 25% and with a donor would be 70% at this office. He also said that sometimes he turns people away from D/E cycles when their success would be 25% but he would let us do it if we wanted to.
I just talked with them and even tho we have insurance coverage we would have to pay everything up front and then try to get the insurance to give us the amount due to us after the retrieval. The cost of that would be 25K and that doesn’t include the medication or freezing or anything really. THEN she says to me that the amount I would prob get back is about $1,500.00 which makes no sense to me at all but whatever.
I have fibroids, at least 6 that they can catch with the u/s machine which shouldn’t be an issue cuz they are not around the lining where the baby would implant but he also said it could be an issue. He was talking out of both sides of his mouth really. DH and I really liked him and the clinic but this price stuff is just obnoxious!
We haven’t totally decided what we are gonna do and we talked about not making the decision based solely on money since this would be our “last chance” but the difference is just too much and I really think we will be going with a donor cycle over at the office in town here, that will actually bill to my insurance. However, I don’t think I will be going with the intermin B test if there is no reason to do it.
I would like to know if there is something wrong with the uterus whoch would hinder me carrying a child b4 going into another cycle.
Thx for listening and following me yet again.
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November 16, 2009
Oh, and this is kinda funny that I just thought of - Every year for my bday (for the last few years) I have treated myself to a tarrot card reading with a local lady who is pretty darn good I may add, anyway, OF COURSE this was one of my questions:
“Will my fertility treatments help?”
It will help but you’ll have to combine two things. You may have to combine resources - the natural and the western in order to get what you want.
weird hey? I mean she was pretty dead on with other things as well but here I am doing just that, combining 2 things. Hopefully she is right, lol!