Juniper, I am sorry to hear that, I hope your AF will not come so soon.. If you don't want to go to city you can just go to the local clinic to do the blood test to confirm it (but you have to wait for about two days for the result). I wish you have BFP...
Today I called my nurse and I asked for a pescription for DHEA, she said she will organise it and ask doctor to sign it. I am not happy for my embryo's quality, I am a litte bit worried but I still want to try DHEA as I know it has side effects, hope my doctore will give it to me and it can help me to improve egg quality. I tried Chinese herbal medicine for quite a long time and acupunture for six month, it helps but the egg quality is still not good enough. I made two appointments next week with the other doctor, hope I can have more help from them.
I am sorry for being MIA these last couple of months, we didn't have any luck with the last IUI in May and have been focusing on our relationship and not so much on TTC - I think I was causing myself a blockage my head was so caught up in it all.
Anyway, I plan on catching up on your posts and seeing where everyone is up to soon, in the meantime I have a quick question as am now thinking about IVF (I had a birthday in June - so 39 now!!! Eek!)
I see Dr Luckensmeyer in Brisbane - when I rang to get some prices on IVF the receptionist told me I have to make an appointment with a nurse at QFG and they go through it all with us.....is that right? Has anyone else done this? What sort of things do they cover?
Thanks in advance for your help - and I look forward to reading your updates asap!
Beestrong- Good luck at your appointments with your new doctor. Hope it goes well Xx
Juniper- Thinking of you honey.. How are you going? Xx
Westy- I think most clinics are reluctant to give out pricing over the phone cause it can vary a lot depending on your needs and also depending whether or not you have PHI. Generally clinic fees do not cover things like hospital fees, anesthetist, treating doctor fees and non medicare claimable meds (like Crinone, Progynova etc). My last stim ivf cycle ended up costing about $11500 upfront and I recieved close to $5000 back in medicare rebates.. But bear in mind the out of pocket costs can vary from one clinic to another. I then pay about $3600 upfront per FET and get about $1400 back from Medicare. HTH Xx
AFM- Counting down the hours till my FS appointment today. Had an all out melt down last night... I really need some answers!!
Beestrong- Good luck at your appointments with your new doctor. Hope it goes well Xx
Juniper- Thinking of you honey.. How are you going? Xx
Westy- I think most clinics are reluctant to give out pricing over the phone cause it can vary a lot depending on your needs and also depending whether or not you have PHI. Generally clinic fees do not cover things like hospital fees, anesthetist, treating doctor fees and non medicare claimable meds (like Crinone, Progynova etc). My last stim ivf cycle ended up costing about $11500 upfront and I recieved close to $5000 back in medicare rebates.. But bear in mind the out of pocket costs can vary from one clinic to another. I then pay about $3600 upfront per FET and get about $1400 back from Medicare. HTH Xx
AFM- Counting down the hours till my FS appointment today. Had an all out melt down last night... I really need some answers!!
Juniper, how are you going? I am thinking of you too.
Awesty, I think first time I paid about $9830 ( About $8500 to Monash IVF for the precedure; $750 egg collection; $280 transfer; $300 for anaesthetics), I received about $5,300 refund. So you will be out of pocket about $4,500. Maybe different clinic has different price.
I feel very gassy and acid in my stomach for a while, I was taking Zantac for more than 1.5 month, it seems not much help, so today I am going to see my doctor again to ask for the other tablets, hope it can help. I want to do the other stimulation cycle because I don't want to prepare for transfer and embryo is not surviving by defrost.
Will continue praying your embie brings you success 
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