sorry for the delay in replying - mad, mad , crazy week coupled with computer problems! It is amazing how much chatting you can miss out on when you have been away from the computer for just a few days!
Anyway, great to hear from you.
All of my previous IVFs were done through Melbourne IVF (Freemasons), and they were lovely and great. However, it just didn't work for me with them. After three goes, you have to think that you need to get a 2nd opinion. Which we did.
I went to see a specialist on a referral from my cousin who had done 21 rounds of IVF (with different clinics) and the only 2 times she got pregnant were with this specialist (who is, by the way, one of the expert panel on this website!...co-incidence for me!)
Anyway, I have been sort of with this doc for the past few months and he was the one that eventually did my recent D&C. But we haven't done any IVF stuff with him as yet as I was unknowingly pregnant when I had my first appointment with him.
So now I am going through Monash IVF out of either Richmond (Epworth) or Clayton (private hospital).
I am booked in to have my laporoscopy next Wednesday. This is just to check that everything is ok - I have no reason to think that it will be anything other than ok. I have no pains, no bleeds, the endo I had years and years ago doesn't seem to be affecting me (or is it...!!!). And to top it off, like you, every test I have ever had comes back as normal. Why not this one??!!
Hubby and I are going over to America for a business trip (going to a dairy expo and visiting dairy farms) in late Sept, so we won't be embarking on any IVF until we return. I'm thinking that we will be starting again sometime in late Oct??
In my last IVF try, I had embryo selection done. This was to see whether I kept loosing babies because they were genetically abnormal. I had a poor fertilization rate compared to eggs taken (11) and only 2 embryos were ok to biopsy. However, the results of all came back ok. So at least we know we can make 'normal' embryos. I was going to have it done the time previous to that, but I only had 1 viable embryo and there is a risk that by taking one cell out that they can actually cause the death of the embryo, so with only 1 we didn't risk it. But by the time we got to the next round, we just needed to get more information as we had come to the end of what we could get from the tests done so far. So we risked loosing one or both. But we didn't. They were fine and we had them both implanted...but to no avail.
But yeah, it does add to the cost of the IVF...significantly.
So have you seen your OB yet? Best wishes with it all.
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