What to expect at first FA appointment...

Hey wantabub, I have just had mine. She wouldn't put me on clomid because i would run the risk of having twins because im young, so to speak...

I have to do day 21 and 25 bloods and also cycle tracking with the nurses at Otago Health. That involves more scans and bloods at each stage of my cycle!

At the appointment she had a feel around to see if she could feel anything abnormal...nothing found, so it is the cycle tracking for me, if they don't find anything she suggests we do a larascopy (spelling?) which will show things happening with ovaries etc, this is dont under a local.

But really i'm not sure as they have detected cysts with you, they might just put you straight onto clomid.

Sorry i can't be of more help.


Edited by emmap

Sorry wantabub for some reason I didnt see that you had already had the scan, tests and diagnosis I guess most of what I said is irrelevant

I did 10 cycles of clomid- a very hard and frustrating time! I also had a lap surgery and got preg the month following. Without the clomid i wasnt ovulating at all, so I think it was a combination of the surgery and clomid that got us our BFP.

All the very best wantabub and look forward to hearing about your BFP

My appointment was similar to Mindy's as well, they did an internal scan as well even tho i had all this done with my own dr.

They then went through all our options, costs etc and gave us a dvd to watch

Good luck with you appointment

I was wondering,Wantabub, how long did you have to wait for FA to get hold of you for your appointment? (I've also asked the q in CPP, but see you are in Wellington and you're appointment is soon)

I saw the hospital gyn last Monday, and he said he would be referring us to FA, so of course he has to write the referral, then they have to process it etc. Will they let me know an appointment date as soon as they get the referral or will they wait until it's just a couple of weeks out from the appointment date before letting me know? I'm sure they're used to people ringing up and asking, but I'm hoping to hold out for at least another two weeks so I don't seem too obsessive

Thanks Wantabub. I might give FA a call later today then (as it has been over a week) - we've already filled in one form for FA as DH had a SA done there. We never got an invoice for the SA, so might follow up on that at the same time (and gives me a bit more of an excuse to call! )

In regards to your question, my story is quite long. After going off the pill early last year I had really irregular periods and so went to my doctor who ordered some blood tests, and when these came back a abnormal I paid for an ultrasound to be done. The ultrasound showed a mass so I was referred to hospital gyn and had further ultrasound - this showed mass had gone but that I had a heart shaped uterus. I had a whole bunch more blood tests which confirmed I wasn't ovulating and had high prolactin levels. I had over a six month wait for my MRI for my uterus but finally had minor heart shape confirmed but surgery not necessary (phew!). I had more bloods which showed my prolactin levels dropped so didn't need any further tests in this area and gyn finally could confirm PCOS (it isn't really obvious in my case (both cysts and bloods were inconclusive) so until they ruled out all the other reasons for not ov (like the prolactin), they couldn't confirm that diagnosis). Gyn is going to refer me to FA, who may refer me back to him if they run further tests and decide I need surgery.

So I guess, my answer would be, if you don't know of any other problems, then maybe the gyn appointment isn't really necessary. It could be though, that your dr referred you to the gyn due to something else on your scan - I'm not sure. I would recommend calling your dr or FA and asking.

Hi Wantabub.

I went to my gynae first before FA, I also have PCOS. The gynae had me on clomid, but didn't monitor me with bloods, so the timing was all out. I wasted 6 or so months taking clomid and half the time I wasn't even ov.

I found FA very methodical and focused, when clomid wasn't working (as I was resistant to the drug) they added hormone injections to kickstart the ov. When the clomid didn't work, we swapped to OI injections Finally concieved after 4 months or so of them... Prob 3 years trying all up

If you have a good gynae, and then you might be okay without FA, but I have to say I found the service well worth the $$. My son is prob worth $20K at least. (I'm too scared to add up all the bills and see!!) Note in wtgn you pay for all blood tests from private specialist. It was about $30 a test, and I would have 10 or so per month, so that made up a large part of the cost.

BTW I reckon the whole thing only worked the on our last try because I put myself on a real strict low GI diet and didn't touch caffeine.

I've had several different ones in the Hutt. None have impressed me yet!