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Kiwigirl75
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Posted: 20 March 2015 at 12:10pm |
Thanks, have got a number of someone who is meant to be good but going to hold off for a bit. Have our second appt with fertility doctor on Tuesday so might just see what he thinks. Amy how quickly did they get you started on injections? How are you finding the process so far?
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Amy67
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Posted: 20 March 2015 at 2:26pm |
We went to see the clinic in about october last year, it took about 6 months to start doing the injections. I have to wait 3 months before restarting next round. The hard thing about the process is waiting, the whole thing consumes my mind quite a lot, so having it drag on is quite hard. But I understand the clinics have a lot going on. Once I got to the injecting stage I relaxed so much. I didn't have many side effects and I don't find injecting myself to be an issue at all.
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Kiwigirl75
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Posted: 22 March 2015 at 6:30pm |
Good to hear the injecting stage inst too bad, im generally ok with needles so hoping i find it ok. How many times a day/week do you have to do it?
Was wondering if anyone out there went with the fertility associates fertility cover plan? Just trying to ake sense of it all and work out whats the best option. Any thoughts?
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Posted: 22 March 2015 at 6:52pm |
I generally haven't found the injecting too bad, but I did get over it this round... In total I did 40 injections and 5 blood tests - although it will all be so worth it if we get our much wanted baby! It is generally an injection in the am, and then again in the pm, length of cycle depends on protocol. We are with FA, but didn't do the plan, we have done 2 public funded cycles, and then 2 privately paid cycles... It's hard to know which option is best really. With regards to starting the cycles, with privately funded cycles we have been able to start as soon as we wanted, one of them was the next cycle, and this one we waited a couple of months as we didn't want to do it over xmas and ny.
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Kiwigirl75
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Posted: 22 March 2015 at 7:34pm |
Thanks Charlie6, brain is just going crazy as second apt is on Tuesday and just trying to make sure we are informed before we go. Not sure what we should ask etc.
Still trying to figure out the best payment option, just hard when you have no idea if or when you will be successful!!
Any tips for the second appt?
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Posted: 26 March 2015 at 6:18pm |
Hi Kiwigirl and all
I've just joined this forum, and we are in almost the same boat as you - Have seen fertility associates in Hamilton once, but have to travel 3 hours to get there. Next appointment not till end of next month, but it seems like IVF will be the way we have to go too. I don't believe we will qualify for public funding, so its so hard to know what to do about their payment options isn't it - impossible to predict the future! Its such a stressful time, and so hard to have no control over whats going on!
Hope your appointment went well? If you are going ahead with IVF, were they able to give you a date to start? I'm really worried that we will find we have to wait months and months even tho paying privately, and the waiting is so hard! Its just constantly in your mind...
Anyway, fingers crossed for all :-)
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Posted: 26 March 2015 at 7:42pm |
Kiwigirl how did your appointment go? We had a embryo transfered on Tuesday... Hi Merrily, you should be able to start pretty much straight away if youre paying privately, once youve had all the necessary tests done etc... Why don't you think you would qualify for public funding?
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Posted: 26 March 2015 at 10:38pm |
We are doing IVF privately, but still had to wait a while. It's certainly not a quick process and paying privately only brings it forward a wee bit (about a year for us). There seemed to be months between appointments, then having to abandon to cycle has dragged the process out more :(
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Posted: 27 March 2015 at 10:47am |
Hi Charlie - I don't think we would qualify for public funding as so our infertility is 'unexplained', and I believe due to me only being 29 that we have to have been trying for 5 years for public funding. And it has 'ONLY' been 18 months for us so far...
Amy67 - that's horrible for you - whereabouts in NZ are you getting treatment?
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Posted: 27 March 2015 at 11:16am |
Amy maybe it depends who you are with? We are with Fertility Associates Auckland and both private cycles we have started as soon as we have wanted to, within a month or 2. Sorry that you have had to abandon a cycle, that must be super frustrating for you. Was that due to lack of response?
Merrily, we have almost be trying for 4 years, I have just turned 30, and have already had our 2 public funded rounds for iVF. Ours is also unexplained infertility. We paid for our initial consult, and paid privately for some rounds of clomid which didn't work, so I was put on the list, and then my space got bought forward by around 8 months... After that failed we went back on the waitlist for our 2nd round, and paid for a private round in between as the wait was going to be around a year.
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Posted: 27 March 2015 at 4:55pm |
Charlie6 thats interesting, as the FA website gives a typical unexplained case as needing 5 years TTC... will be interesting to see what the DR says when we see her again. We might be in luck!
I kind of wonder if maybe we need to try Clomid ourselves, I was using OPK's and only got positive results 3 times out of 8 months, but the Dr seemed more interested in the fact that periods were regular. But it does make me wonder if i dont ovulate every month!
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Posted: 28 March 2015 at 10:42am |
Hi, welcome Merrily! Had the second appt with Dr, we have to have another sperm est (3rd) as our local hospital keeps not testing for motility. This will only be useful if there is a problem and thus will get us on the public list. As i turn 40 this year we are going ahead with at least one private round. I asked about the fertitlity cover but Dr didt think I would quaify due to age. Guess thats ok as we have been leaning to just trying to pay for each round as it comes and keeping our finger and toes crossed.
Spoke with the nurse yesterday and will be signing consent forms this week, then I ring her on day one of my cycle and then a few weeks from there I start taking meds. She said they will send up a detailed plan and a dvd. So should be easy to follow. She was worried that she wouldn't have shown me how to use the needles but we have family in medical field so i was able to reassure her.
So Merrily it looks like you can start as soon as your cycle is ready. Charlie6 I have my fingers and toes crossed for you!!
Amy67- very hard to have such delays especially after finally coming to terms with the fact IVF is the way to go. Sorry to hear you had to abandon a cycle.
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Posted: 02 April 2015 at 10:07am |
Right we have just had our invoice for one round. The cost is $13800 plus the trips down to Christchurch for egg retrieval and implantation. If AF does not arrive mid April we will get started and keep our fingers and toes crossed that it is successful!! Going to be a long couple of months hoping like mad it works!! Good luck to anyone else going through IVf or trying to get pregnant!
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Posted: 02 April 2015 at 12:44pm |
Kiwigirl, that's great you can start so soon. Lots of good luck to you! Fingers and toes crossed Hopefully we will be able to get in so quick also. AF was a couple of days late this month, took a test which said NO.. but you keep hoping, until APRIL FOOLS yesterday, Aunt Flo has arrived! So now just being patient until our specialist appointment on the 22nd...
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Posted: 02 April 2015 at 1:10pm |
AF can be a real B**ch sometimes by doing that! Your head says don't get your hopes up but you cant help it! I still have fingers and toes crossed that AF doesn't come so we don't need IVf but am realistic after 19 months we will need to do it. Good luck with the specialist, let us know how it goes.
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Posted: 02 April 2015 at 4:09pm |
Yeah it doesn't matter how realistic your brain is, you still seem to keep a part of it that hopes! Still, I guess that hopeful part is why we go through all this stuff to make it happen.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 8:18am |
Right at didn't come. We now have dates to start the IVF process next month. Drugs arriving next week!! Fingers and toes are now permanently crossed. Anyone else there going through IVF in the next month or two? Be good to share experiences!!
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 8:47am |
Exciting Kiwigirl! I'm still not starting until July (no date-bump for me), though we've had all our paperwork through to sign and initial blood tests, so all ready to go (minus drugs) when July finally comes around.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 9:23am |
Brilliant news Mushroom! Roll on July!! I am just keen to get started now. We didnt qualify for funding so this is our "1" shot which is leading me to be a bit more anxious than I think I would of been other wise.
We have been given some key dates should everything go ok, such as blood test dates, and likely egg implantation date but as this is not an exact science we cant really on it too much, which is hard when trying to figure out how to get down to christchurch without telling the bosses why i need a few days off at short notice. Am not keen to tell them whats happening as I feel like Im tempting fate. Stupid I know. But just want to get started and see what happens without work knowing everything
Who are you going through Mushroom? We are with Fertility Associates.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 10:19am |
Yeah - it's hard trying to plan through everything. Hubby has told his bosses so he can take leave at very short notice. I guess you could look at taking a holiday for the week of egg collection (since you have scans, blood tests, and need egg collection and day after off at very least) - if your work is understanding you could give them a heads up that you want to book some leave next month, but are trying to work the dates in with family, so would it be ok to confirm exact dates in a few weeks?
We're with Fertility Associates in Auckland, which is why we've been waiting a while on the long slow list, but I guess we're getting to the last hurdle now. Just seems to rather drag, and completely unknown how we'll respond to everything until we get there!
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