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Forum Name: Coping with infertility
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Topic: ivf
Posted By: wish
Subject: ivf
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 4:20pm
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Is any one out there waiting to get on the wating list for ivf?
We have been waiting to get on the list for a year now and stil haven't got enough points for the list. I rang them yesterday and ask them where we are at and she said maybe 2-3 more years. |
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 4:47pm
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That seems odd. Who have you been dealing with (eg. Fertility Plus, Fertility Associates?) - in my understanding, either you qualify or you don't, or you're told what goals you need to reach.
Do you know what your fertility issue is? Are you needing to lose weight? How long have you been trying to conceive unsuccessfully? Basically, what are your circumstances? I haven't come across anyone who has had to wait to accumulate points to get on the waiting list - we've all just gone on. Perhaps you've been given dodgy advice or been fobbed off?  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Vanillabean
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 6:19pm
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I've heard of someone in Wellington who got points to qualify after self-funding four unsuccessful IUIs and is now on the waiting list. Because they had unexplained unfertility they would have had to try for five years unsuccessfully to qualify otherwise. ------------- 5x mc, Jan 08, June 08, Nov 08, May 09, April 11 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ItchyFeet
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 6:20pm
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I think this is the criteria list link. http://www.electiveservices.govt.nz/pdfs/gynaecology-infertility.pdf - Here
It's not as simple as you either qualify or you don't. We will qualify, but not for three years from the date of first seeing the specialist. |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 7:34pm
Yikes! I had no idea! 
Thank heavens for endo and dodgy swimmers then huh? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: wish
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 8:01pm
| my partner had a vasctomy when he was married. |
Posted By: wish
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 8:25pm
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hi, we saw the specialest in chch and he told us that there would be no problem as far as the conception side of things. It's just the points system that we are on that is the issue at this time.
The fertility centre has a points system and they gave us 45 points at the first visit. we are now at 48points.Now after 11months we are still at 48 points and require 65points or higher to reach the threshold for eligibility for treatment. we have been told that the points will continue to be recalculated monthly until the threshold is met. then our names will be added to the to the waiting list. Has anyone been through this procedure? |
Posted By: Summagal
Date Posted: 01 July 2008 at 9:07pm
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Sorry I can't help but only advice I can give is to keep at it, persistance WILL get you in the end I am sure
good luck! Agree Ginger, never thought endo and dodgy swimmers cld save the day   ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 02 July 2008 at 8:24am
 Does he have sperm antibodies now? I would have thought you would be a shoe-in (sp?). I'm so sorry you're having to wait so long! I don't know how old you are, but keep in mind that the cut off for publicly funded IVF is 40 (for the woman). Some people don't realise that until it is too late. Perhaps if you're looking at 2-3 years before you can even get on the waiting list, it may be worth investigating saving for IVF? I imagine you would need ICSI which is the more expensive option, but even if it took you 2 years to save, you're still probably 2 years better off, and if you qualify in the meantime - YAY!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
wish wrote:Posted By: Emily281
Date Posted: 02 July 2008 at 11:41am
I may just be naive - but has he had or can he have a Vasectomy Reversal? I have heard of other people getting pg naturally after a VR. Also, looking at the eligibility criteria if the vasectomy is your only problem are they sure you will actually reach the 65 points? ------------- TTC#1: Jan 07 Aug 08: Lap found and excised Stage 3 Endo Nov 08: 2nd lap clear - given OK to TTC after next AF |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 02 July 2008 at 12:00pm
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Sometimes what happens Emily is that when it is reversed, the man's body effectively rejects the sperm and creates antibodies to it. Lulu and her husband had this problem. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: avkiwi3
Date Posted: 08 July 2008 at 3:10pm
| We have our first appointment with FA in Welly in August to discuss IVF. When we saw the specialist at the hospital in May he said the waiting list is about 6mths.We are not 100% sure that we will be eligible for funding. I am hopeful that we will have enough points. We loose points because we have a nearly 5 year old but gain points because I have lost both my fallopian tubes to ectopic pregnancies (classed as severe infertility, as in we can try till the cows come home nothing is ever going to happen). As far as we know neither my partner nor I has any other issues. |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 9:56am
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That's probably issues enough avkiwi3! I am so sorry you have been through that!! They list the criteria on the FA website and I think if your child is over 3 it increases your points? I could be remembering that very, very wrong though
I realyl do hope you get on the list!! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: avkiwi3
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 3:16pm
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Thanks Ginger, I have had a look at the info of how the points are worked out and it is looking good, the only think I can't work out/don't know is what my Basal FSH is which i think is what they measure when you have to do a CD2 BT which I have had done but I don't know the results.
Andrew Murray did say that if we aren't elegable now we most likely will be when Amelia turns 5. |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 09 July 2008 at 4:18pm
 Yay! I so hope get on the list easily! It makes my blood boil a bit that they're so tight-fisted about IVF funding in NZ, and yet the money that goes to terminations is astronomical!!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: AngieBabe
Date Posted: 10 July 2008 at 9:53am
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You're with the same specialist as me Avkiwi3, he'll be doing my lap and overseeing my IVF if it comes to that - an old work colleague had AM for her IVF cycle as did two of her neighbours and they all had wee bubbas so he knows what he's doing! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: avkiwi3
Date Posted: 11 July 2008 at 10:45am
I hope the Lap goes well AngieBabe, I have only heard good things about AM 
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