Private IVF - Cost

Hi girls,

If anyone is doing a private IVF cycle (or have recently gone through one) could you please let me know which clinic you went through and how much the cycle cost? Particularly interested to hear about Auckland prices/experiences.

Also are you doing short or long cycle and does that make a difference in price?

Thanks in advance to all for sharing!

Thank you so much kiwikt!
I called FA to ask a few general questions and they suggested IVF cycle is anywhere between 10k and 14k, it's great to hear some actual $$ examples from someone who has done this! I am finding the receptionist at FA so unhelpful :( no certain answers for anything and she talks to me as if I'm a child! Argh! Still trying to decide between going to Repromed and FA for our private cycle..seems that most feedback here on the forum is about FA and it's all quite positive, but my initial contact with their reception is putting me off :-/

Thanks Hopes! I've decided to just go with Repromed and stop looking for answers and signs of which clinic is better! You're right, important thing is we connect with the Dr and be happy with their approach.
They had an appointment time for this Friday so we're going then. Can't believe it's so soon! But am very relieved now that there is some action happening.

Hi SunshineWife, I'm in ChCh but have been through 2 privately paid cycles.

We were on the long cycle the first time and the cost was approx $15k as I was a very slow responder to the drugs and needed them for a week longer (we also did ICSI). The second time it was the short cycle and it cost approx $13k. Our FET's here are $1350 each and I didn't need drugs with that.

It's the drugs that make the difference. One Gonal-F pen cost us $225 (in 2008) - it was a one hit wonder for me as I needed 300 units per day (some people only need 75 per day)! I'm sure the prices will have gone up by now too unfortunately.

BUT just think about the long-term. In my head it's probably a bit like buying a house. You might end up paying a few thousand more for a house than you want, but how often do you ever think about how much it cost! I'm going on the same logic for IVF - once you've got a baby in your arms it doesn't matter how much it cost - a baby is priceless

Hi

I'm in CHCH too. We cycled in Nov/Dec 07 and did IVF/ICSI.
I think it was even cheaper back then and we paid about $8500 (maybe a little bit more but this was approx). We got pg with a 5 day blast transfer. We did a FET in 2009 with just progesterone, no needles and that cost about $2000 I think (can't quite remember!!). This resulted in our second son.
We still have 2 six day blasts left.

Good luck.

Hi - our cycle cost around $11.5k including drugs.
We were very forunate and got 4 great embryo's! One we got pregnant off and the other three are 'in the freezer'.
Each further transfer will cost approx $1k and storeage per year is $250.

:)

Wow that's fantastic Carnelian! How I wish for a similar outcome!!

Well, we have received our bill in the mail today and it's 8,785 for IVF and ICSI, and we've already paid $1,275 for the drugs, plus few other tests we had to do....so all up it is just over $10k....

I am just a little worried cos the last SA came back with very very low count...but how many do they need for ICSI, right? Just enough for the number of eggs I produce! So hopefully there will be enough....oh please please please...

Sunshine, in the same boat with sperm but we managed to get 8 fertilised and 7 to day five with unfortunately 5 dying prior to freeze on day six. The freshie transfer got me pregnant but unfortunately early miscarriage. Earthquake may not have helped. We have x 1 left to transfer from that cycle. Not bad for sperm that had been locked way for 16 years prior to us reversing - terrible count and antiobodies galore. Were told we had a 15% change of conceiving naturally.

Positive thinking - It only takes one great sperm and egg combination and our chances are greatly enhanced with ICIS.

Hey Lisa, I'm finding them very good so far. The nurses are excellent, always call me to remind of blood tests and scans and are very nice to talk to. We only saw the doctor at the initial appointment and a scan we had on fri, so sometimes I wonder how well he knows/understands our situation...or whether he just looks at the paperwork just before our appointment ....do you know what i mean? I guess for them it's still business that they run... And we ar just one of the hundreds customs they have..... We have our egg collection tomorrow, so I can let you know how that went later.... I'm sure they are all very knowledgeable and experienced, haven't had any negative experience with repromed so far ... Hope this helps! Good luck on your journey. :)

Hey sunshine
We're with Repromed too, though you're further along the path; we're doing short-cycle IVF & ICSI in april - AF due about the 12th. Quoted about $12,000. I've only heard good things about Repromed, though have had little contact with them so far. (Our original enquiries were with FA - not impressed at all; saw Mary birdsall who gave lots of depressing news without seemingly to consider the impact, except that she kept calling me 'honey' - maybe that was her way of trying to be nice but I just found it patronising. Had several rounds of clomid and IUI with F+ - they were lovely but seemed very overworked. Cheap tho ).

FX for your EC!

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