First Appoinment at Fertilty Clinic next month

Hi. Sorry to hear about your losses. I've had similar and it sucks!
I can tell you a little bit about costs and waits.
My dh has no sperm so we use a donor. We had 4x public funded insems to start with and waited 6mths from going on the list to starting treatment. They weren't successful so we had a round of public ivf which we were able to start straight away. From this I had a chemical and a mc. That led us to paying for our own which cost $13000 around about. We work with Wellington FA. Someone else might know wait times for ivf there but I think it's around 8-12mths. Waits vary between cities too.
Hope that helps.

Thanks for the replies ladies.
I've been referred to the Hamilton clinic, so don't know if anyone else out there has had experience with the Hamilton clinic? Would like to hear your experiences.

Hmmm that was one of my worries. Thanks I'll go and have a look at that thread :)

Thanks for you feed back Mushroom. I'm hoping that we get pregnant without IVF but I'm just at the point where I really don't know anything and guess after our first appointment with fertility doctor that we will have a clearer picture of what we need to try.

Hi HarietCowie
We just had our first appointment this weekend (2 weeks early, as they had a time free to see us). Our first app was free but not sure if we will get funding or not yet. I have to get a scan to see if my tubes are blocked and hubby has to check sperm checked again, and these test will cost about $1000 but I can go on the waiting list for my scan.
I'm surprised that the points where so low for you, did you get any answers from your first app as to what be causing infertility? I found out that I have PCOS.
Are you going to try any other forms of treatment e.g. acupuncture etc..?
I went to my first acupuncture app on Thursday, felt really good after and she advised me to start taking a couple of different health tablets to help with hormones.
What clinic are you going through?

Did you change your user name Kiwigirl? Cause wondering how I typed a different name (bit confused lol).
Anyhow....that's interesting cause I asked my GP to refer us and she did and we also had lots of blood test and sperm tests done and as far as I know they were all good. Filled out questionnaire and then got a letter in the mail a couple of weeks later with appointment. We didn't get told our score.
We have to go back in about 6 weeks time, and in the mean time hubby has to do another sperm test as they testing for something else and I have to do my scan to check that tubes aren't blocked but have decided to ask to be referred to hospital as privately it will cost about $500-$600 and sperm test already costing $360. All these things add up (doctor said these tests aren't covered under funding).
We don't actually know if we have got funding for treatments yet, need to write a list of questions to ask next visit.
We went to the Hamilton fertility clinic as that's where my GP referred us to, we are from Rotorua.
I was a bit spectacle about acupuncture but because I have read lots of good things I thought why not give it a go. I left there feeling so calm and relaxed (before I went in I had a headache, mind was all over the place worrying etc...).
I'm also going to look at contacting Patient Advocates they are meant to be good at helping to prevent you from having miscarriages before you get pregnant that's what I am going to need. But they also do lots of other treatments. Check them out www.patientadvocates.co.nz.
Good luck for Tuesday if I don't talk to you before then.

Can highly recommend patients advocates. Used them to treat pms before we found out our issues and it helped a great deal.

Right been to the fertility specialist and feel much better.
He was basically like you need to be doing something. I now have to have blood test on day 2, 10, 20 of my cycle and any day I have any spotting. Also I have to have a scan to check tubes etc. Had to laugh he thought it cost 300-400 but i ran up this morning and its $760!! Ouch!

Hubby has to have sperm test again as for some reason the hospitals don't seem to check one aspect which he would like them to do. A little frustrating doing some of the tests again.

He also is doing some of my bloods again on slightly different days so he can see if he can push for public funding which is cool. Not holding out too much hope on that one but you never know!!

He has also said if these test dont reveal anything which he doesn't really think they will we will being going down the ivf route not iui. So we need to talk about what that means and if we dont get funding what we want to do.

He was really good, knew his stuff! So much better than my Gp who just was like at your age you have only a 7% chance each month and it could take a long time.

He also said the wait list for public funding is now 10 months for the south island, the urgency with me is that I am only 10 months away from my 40th so we need to get everything done asap in case i can get funding.

Thanks for all the support!
Cant wait to hear how you are all going. Fingers crossed for positive results.

Yeah i was surprised as I had heard a while back that the south island's list was longer but seems things have changed. Most of the test I am having he doesnt expect to find anything but he really wants to do them just in case, cause if he finds anything then we should get funding. Got my fingers and toes crossed for a a successful July for you!

Been told waiting list if we get public funding is 10 months, does anyone know how long you wait if you go private?