The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

VK-2008

Oh having one of those days that I could just cry
And over stupid things
Arrrrgggghhhhh

Hope your all having a fabby weekend x

TTC40

Hugs BZ. That's early (appreciate you didn't want it at all). How long was cycle? I'm not expecting AF to show until sat - although hopefully she doesn't. FS quick with bill this month so £300 to pay out even before 2ww is over.

time2deal

TTC40, you remind me I have a quick financial question for those doing self-pay IVF.

Do you have to pay for additional blood tests? They are giving me a blood test at each scan, I believe to check estrogen, but its £50 each time. Since I've paid a good £5k for the ICSI cycle, it seems like something that would be included!

Also, for those that have done a FET - did you have to pay again for the transfer? I'm not doing a transfer at all this cycle, so part of me feels the cost should be slightly lower. But I suppose 90% of the work has been done before transfer.

Maybe they will give me a discount on the freezing if we get that far!

bigzippy

TTC40 wrote: »

Hugs BZ. That's early (appreciate you didn't want it at all). How long was cycle? I'm not expecting AF to show until sat - although hopefully she doesn't. FS quick with bill this month so £300 to pay out even before 2ww is over.

24 day cycle, with what looks like 9 day LP :cool: not sure what to think of it...

TTC40

Can't help in your question T2D, but my blood test was £60. You're getting a MSE bargain - LOL!

BZ - sorry cant remember this , but did you gave longer LP before Clomid?

mrshappy

time2deal wrote: »

TTC40, you remind me I have a quick financial question for those doing self-pay IVF.

Do you have to pay for additional blood tests? They are giving me a blood test at each scan, I believe to check estrogen, but its £50 each time. Since I've paid a good £5k for the ICSI cycle, it seems like something that would be included!

Also, for those that have done a FET - did you have to pay again for the transfer? I'm not doing a transfer at all this cycle, so part of me feels the cost should be slightly lower. But I suppose 90% of the work has been done before transfer.

Maybe they will give me a discount on the freezing if we get that far!

We have had had to pay for bloods, mine were £200. Mr h was slightly less as he had more on NHS. We have also had to pay for each consultation individually as it happens, 1 with urologist, 3 with fertility consultant and 1 nurse appointment. Mr h also had his PESA at £900 and we had to pay £4750 for the ICSI before it started. For that we will get our fresh transfer and a frozen (if necessary and the quality is good enough). Freezinng and storage for 1 year is included. I appreciate that your circumstances are different re FET though so I would probably ask for a discount

ETA-just reread your post and realised that you are being asked to pay for bloods at a later stage, I think that's a bit poo and should have been covered by the big cost

jujugaboo

Peonie - I had high prolactin and thyroid levels, they discovered I had an underactive thyroid problem which was quite bad but I had no symptons. I am not on medication and its no big deal.

T2D - We paid £5000 for our ICSI cycle and the we paid about £800 in total for our FET, this included scans and transfers but we didn't haave any blood tests.

Peonie

jujugaboo wrote: »

Peonie - I had high prolactin and thyroid levels, they discovered I had an underactive thyroid problem which was quite bad but I had no symptons. I am not on medication and its no big deal.

Thanks Jujugaboo, I've not had any symptoms either. I hoped the specialist would put me on a prolactin medication would 'right' the prolactin levels and mean I would conceive.

lilymay1

bigzippy wrote: »

24 day cycle, with what looks like 9 day LP :cool: not sure what to think of it...

CD14 for me today and no sign of ovulation. Been really 'wet' since CD5 and my OPK's have been all over the place. Gone from positive to negative within the space of about an hour some days. Temps are still rock-bottom too.

Feeling a bit flat. I was wrong to expect it to be a miracle cure but can't help but feel sad.

Big hugs zippy. That's a pretty carp cycle.

bigzippy

TTC40 wrote: »

BZ - sorry cant remember this , but did you gave longer LP before Clomid?

Hard to say for sure because my cycles only shortened after the hsg (when I'd been given progesterone to control the bleeding) and I didn't chart from then til I'd had the surgery (didn't see the point) then went on clomid. From the charts I have it appears to be pretty consistent - but from guesswork, and I do remember being vaguely concerned about my lp before the clomid. I only started using the cbfm the cycle I starting using clomid.

It's not helping me feel like this could happen without further intervention though :cool: