IVF advice.

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.

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.

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 :-)

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 :(

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.

xx

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.

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...

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.

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.

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?