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Ay up - I usually lurk over in TTC, but I think I may well be joining you here soon.
I'm on my 9th cycle TTC and not getting anywhere. My partner and I finally had our appointment at the fertility centre last week which didn't go the way I was expecting at all.
The consultant took our histories and had written us up for a lap and dye for me and an appointment with a plastic cup for Mr Urch......then a 3 month wait for a follow up consultation to discuss the findings and decide a course of action.
Then he asked me how long til I am 40. When I told him 2 months, everything changed - I told him that my GP had told me that providing I was 'in the system' before I turned 40, I would get free IVF (the first cycle at least). He said this was true, but that an outpatients appointment doesn't count as 'in the system'
So, he decided that my best chance of conceiving was through IVF and rang the IVF people to push me through ... I am still getting my lap & dye appointment through but he said to delay it if I've already started IVF. He has inflated my TTC tally to 2 years, and said he would hand deliver the referral at the end of clinic (he wrote 2 months to 40 all over it!) He has accepted the results of my laproscopy in 2001 as accurate (no endo or PCOS) so I don't have to have those bits repeated
This was all a bit of a shock - I guess because I'd assumed I was now 'in the system' I thought that I would be able to get the tests done, find out what's going on then discuss a course of action - but it really does seem that things have to move quickly if I am to squeeze in for IVF.
Now, an ex of mine was egg donor for her aunty, and I remember all the rigmarole of hormones and harvesting and it has got me thinking.....if the consultant is jumping the gun to squeeze me in, but IVF is not successful, where does that leave me?
What happens to fertility after the mega egg-production they induce?
On the one hand I am very grateful that the consultant has pulled out all the stops for me, but on the other hand I am worried that there may be other unforeseen consequences
Any advice would be welcome
I'm on my 9th cycle TTC and not getting anywhere. My partner and I finally had our appointment at the fertility centre last week which didn't go the way I was expecting at all.
The consultant took our histories and had written us up for a lap and dye for me and an appointment with a plastic cup for Mr Urch......then a 3 month wait for a follow up consultation to discuss the findings and decide a course of action.
Then he asked me how long til I am 40. When I told him 2 months, everything changed - I told him that my GP had told me that providing I was 'in the system' before I turned 40, I would get free IVF (the first cycle at least). He said this was true, but that an outpatients appointment doesn't count as 'in the system'
So, he decided that my best chance of conceiving was through IVF and rang the IVF people to push me through ... I am still getting my lap & dye appointment through but he said to delay it if I've already started IVF. He has inflated my TTC tally to 2 years, and said he would hand deliver the referral at the end of clinic (he wrote 2 months to 40 all over it!) He has accepted the results of my laproscopy in 2001 as accurate (no endo or PCOS) so I don't have to have those bits repeated
This was all a bit of a shock - I guess because I'd assumed I was now 'in the system' I thought that I would be able to get the tests done, find out what's going on then discuss a course of action - but it really does seem that things have to move quickly if I am to squeeze in for IVF.
Now, an ex of mine was egg donor for her aunty, and I remember all the rigmarole of hormones and harvesting and it has got me thinking.....if the consultant is jumping the gun to squeeze me in, but IVF is not successful, where does that leave me?
What happens to fertility after the mega egg-production they induce?
On the one hand I am very grateful that the consultant has pulled out all the stops for me, but on the other hand I am worried that there may be other unforeseen consequences
Any advice would be welcome
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soooo, I no longer need Boss 1 to cover for me and I needn't have said anything
Guess I better get on it. Hopefully I will get a referral as I would like to feel i have something like a back up plan, you know? (mc'd twice last year and have since after investigations been diagnosed w/ underactive thyroid which they suspect was the culprit- but we'll never know...) Fingers crossed i guess 
