Should I change Clinics?
I was given high hopes coming to this clinic when I had my initial intake. The specialist advised me that my next round of IVF would be more successful if I had my tubes removed. I was able to secure a doctor who was willing to operate on me and I had a successful surgery. Next this specialist insisted I was put on Lupron for 3 months to help calm down my endo. During this time period my AMH dropped 1 point. From 1.6 to 0.58. Everything seemed better than expected when I started back at the clinic after my 8 month recovery period. The specialist believed I would only have 7 follicules to stim, but turned out I had 15, on retrieval day he was only expecting 5-6 eggs and was able to retrieve 10, 7 mature. Sadly none made it to embryo stage. He put me on a very high dose protocol plus Omnitrope. He made me wait an entire month to talk to me about the results, and when he did he told me my endo is the cause for the result. He coated the entire phone call with “this isn’t your first time going through IVF, you’re well aware of your condition.” Yes it isn’t, it was my second, sure the first only yielded 1 embryo, but it failed transfer because my hydrosalphinx. He told me let’s call a spade a spade, your endo is the reason for lower egg quality. And told me I should consider egg donor, because if I wanted to do with my own eggs, I have a 10-15% chance. He isn’t an endo specialist in my knowledge, and he was really brief with me the entire course of treatment. It’s been 2 months since the failed IVF cycle and I feel lost. We got the bill in the mail today for services and I feel robbed. After such a devastating outcome, the only follow up with answers we get from the doctor is a 15 minute phone call? I had even emailed my coordinator with follow up questions and she didn’t even reply. I almost feel like calling them and giving them a piece of my mind, but I’m not like that. This clinic does have good success rates but I don’t see many patients who have endo come here. He made me feel so awful about my condition and put this in my mind that because of my endo I have literally no chance. I’m 34. He even told me during intake that what’s good is that I’m young. I can’t accept what he told me.
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