How long was your wait???

Hi everybody.
My partner and I are currently on the IVF waiting list for Christchurch Repromed, due to my partners sperm count being low.
We were told that the we would have to wait 11 months before being called up.

Just wondering if the list get shorter with cancellations and has anyone ever been called up earlier than they expected?

Im getting so frustrated with waiting, and just want things to start happening...

We are going through hamilton for similar treatment and the waiting list is bout 18 months, we have an appt in Feb 2012 for our first round of IVF

I questioned about cancellations etc and being moved up the waiting list and they explained that if say someone cancelled in August they offer the appointment to the first couple on the list for the month of September, and so on.

Keep your fingers crossed cause I do believe that there is a high possibility that you will get moved up the list.

We are on the auckland waiting list and were told about 18 months wait, but when i emailed them they have said treatment looks likely for sept 2011 (so 13 months) they also did say it could be sooner if there are cancellations - we too are really hoping that we can get treatment before sept 2011, i really hate this waiting and just want to start this process esp reading in the first time IVF thread where one lady got a BFP and that we have already been trying for nearly 3 years!!

Hi Balcy1

I'm also in Nth Cnty and am with Repromed in ChCh. We just got our letter to say we've made it to the waitlist and it's for Sept 2011.

I've been recently speaking with a friend who has had 2 publicly funded cycles and knows a couple of others going through it, and apparently they very easily run out of money towards the end of the year.

This has meant that someone called up in August one year got funding, and someone called up in September a different year had to wait until more funding came through the following January.

So I hope when you get your letter it's in the first six months of the year!!!!!

Unfortunately I'm worst-case-scenarioing it and assuming we won't get funding til Jan 2012, which sux massively. I guess it'll be a nice surprise if it comes through sooner ..... although I'll be 37 that year - grrrrr.

I hope you have lots to distract you in the meantime. Unfortunately IVF is filled with waits once you get started too - but we all get through it and keep going back for more if we have to!

Gosh this has felt quite negative .... I don't want to put you off, but I guess it's the reality of public funding - grrrr (again)

Where abouts in North Canterbury are you Tischler?
We due to be called up in March 2011, so sounds like Im lucky to be in the first half of the year.
Waiting till 2012 sounds like a lifetime away.

Also, Tiff8ny, you said you e-mailed to find out where you were on the waiting list. Does anyone know if we are able to do this with Repromed ChCh?
Would be great to know approx where we are on the list and if it is closer than expected...

Hiya Balcy1, I'm in Rangiora moved out from ChCh last year

I quite often phoned Rebecca (I think it is or Janine) at Repromed to find out where we were at. They were able to tell me, and then obviously when going through IVF cycles we made sure our specialist was well aware we were waiting and wanting to know!!

I don't know if they'd be able to tell you anymore now you've got 'the letter'! I hear that they take 20-30 couples each month, so when you do get the phone call make sure you get all your tests done ASAP so you can be one of the first!!!

Tiff8ny - hopefully by the time the All Blacks win the Word Cup we'll be going through our cycles ..... that is when they win next year - fx'd!!! Thinking of it that way might help our countdown anyway!

balcy1im the same as you! these things always happen to me too! our paperwork from FA for the points thing didnt go through to the public funded people, I had to ask them what stage it was up too! so im really scared that our paperwork for the waiting list will get lost and we will have to wait even longer also haha i sound crazy but all this waiting is sending me mad haha

so what stage are you up to with the waiting balcy? have you received the letter to say your eligible for public funding and they will give you another letter with an expected treatment date...... Have you received that second letter yet that says the expected treatment date? thats what i am waiting for at the mo, which they said would be within 3 months of receiving the first letter which would mean end of sept i will hear by.

I so wish we could afford a private IVF cycle in the meantime!! i will be buying a lotto ticket this weekend hehe

yea sounds like it a lil different up here with the waiting list being less time. but sounds like we are both in the same waiting stage and hating it haha

We are also with Repromed Chch and have been told that the waitlist is approximately 11 months long. However we are also on the waitlist for a sperm donor which is apparently several years long so I have no idea when we will actually be able to begin treatment.