private or public fertility clinic
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Topic: private or public fertility clinic
Posted By: sjsjsj
Subject: private or public fertility clinic
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:17pm
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Any comments/advice on whether to go private or public for fertility advice/treatment... particularly interested in peoples experiences in Wellington.
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Posted By: CarleyRose
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 10:53am
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Hey there, didn't want to read and run, i'm down Dunedin tho, so probley not much help.
We are currently waiting for Jan to come around for IVF so i've had a few appts, we have seen our FS privately for appts but went public for my Lap, and also public for IVF, the FS i go to is Public and Private tho so that helps with us being able to switch alot. We only pay for the appts because we get them in a couple of weeks rather than a couple of months. Gud Luck! ------------- TTC Sept08 July10 FS APP ICSI#1 BFN-No frosties ICSI#2 BFN-2 Frosties FET-8th August - BFP 20/8/12 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 11:40am
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It really depends on what you're looking at, too. In our case, we would see the same people whether we were paying for it ourselves or not. I imagine it's like that in most places - I haven't heard of clinics that only do private? Although I could be wrong. The initial appointments were the same cost to us if we self-referred or waited for my Dr to refer us (so we just self-referred to save time). My rounds on clomid couldn't be publicly funded, so we just paid ourselves. So for the first six-eight months, it didn't make a difference either way, if you're at that point.
Once it was apparent that clomid wasn't doing the trick for us, we had to start making some decisions about public/private treatment. As I said before, the same Drs would be doing the treatment, it was all a question of how fast it could be done. Your Drs will explain the waiting list times for you when you're at that point (if you are now, they probably will have?) We could have waited for about 12 months for public IVF, or started next cycle private. Another option for us was IUI using the same drugs they use to get you producing eggs for IVF - the public waiting list for that was shorter. The waiting list and options will vary depending on where you are and what complications you have, though. -------------   
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Posted By: HuMum
Date Posted: 13 August 2011 at 8:08am
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Pretty sure FA is both private and public. If you are prepared to wait then I'd go public altho that would depend how long your wait is to get funding.
We paid up until we became eligible for funding. Admittedly we didn't have to go as far as IVF, but it was still costing us upto $2k a month, for well over a year. The expensive bit in wellington was the blood tests as I was having quite a few to monitor how I was responding to the drugs and you pay for all specialist blood tests in wellington (mine were ~$40 a day while testing). Fortunately (or not given the money) we conceived on the last time we were paying, before the public funding kicked in. But I'm prettty sure they told me all the blood tests were payed for under the public system, |
Posted By: HuMum
Date Posted: 13 August 2011 at 8:10am
| Also I started using clomphine through my Ob/gyn and I have to say I felt FA had a much more systematic way of going about it. The blood tests were quickly able to tell I wasn't consistently responding to it, and we quickly moved onto stronger drugs (that also had spurious response rates). |
Posted By: sjsjsj
Date Posted: 06 September 2011 at 10:51pm
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thanks for the responses ladies :) .... there is no obvious reason for us being slow to conceive (other than age (36)) ..our first baby took a year to conceive, so we started earlyish for the second and conceived straight away but MC early on - that was at Christmas ... didn't expect to still be trying now .... not sure whether people normally know why they are having trouble conceiving before going to fertility specialist or whether most go to find out... do they do they same tests for everyone? - are there fairly standard treatments or do they normally pinpoint any issues fairly early on? ... I really don't understand how it all works .... guess I could call and find out :)
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