CCRM Success Story

[Anonymous]

We did our IVF procedure at CCRM back in February 2021 after 2 egg retrievals with Columbia Fertility and 2 egg retrievals with Shady Grove. CCRM was going to be our last stop before we decided to give up on IVF. We had an unexplained fertility issue. One of the most important things about CCRM that appealed to us is their lab's reputation. Our initial meeting with Dr. Payson solidified our decision of moving forward with CCRM. He was always very positive but also made sure that we were aware of all the possibilities. Unlike Shady Grove where they rotated us with different doctors depending on availability at the time (we only met with our assigned doctor twice (she didn't even do our egg retrieval)), Dr. Payson was at all the important procedures (egg retrieval and embryo transfer) and at most of the OB visits (there is another doctor that would alternate with him on these visits. The clinic itself is also in much better shape than Columbia and Shady Grove. Everything is done in that clinic (egg retrieval, embryo transfer, doctor visits), unlike Columbia (the OB visits were in Ballston in our case but the egg retrieval and embryo transfer were in the DC location) and Shady Grove (the OB visits were in Fair Oaks in our case but the egg retrieval was all the way in Shady Grove, Maryland). All in all, we were very pleased with the whole process. To top it all off, though we retrieved only 2 eggs and only fertilized one viable embryo, it resulted in a successful pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

I went to CCRM as well and had a good experience but this seems like a marketing ploy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did our IVF procedure at CCRM back in February 2021 after 2 egg retrievals with Columbia Fertility and 2 egg retrievals with Shady Grove. CCRM was going to be our last stop before we decided to give up on IVF. We had an unexplained fertility issue. One of the most important things about CCRM that appealed to us is their lab's reputation. Our initial meeting with Dr. Payson solidified our decision of moving forward with CCRM. He was always very positive but also made sure that we were aware of all the possibilities. Unlike Shady Grove where they rotated us with different doctors depending on availability at the time (we only met with our assigned doctor twice (she didn't even do our egg retrieval)), Dr. Payson was at all the important procedures (egg retrieval and embryo transfer) and at most of the OB visits (there is another doctor that would alternate with him on these visits. The clinic itself is also in much better shape than Columbia and Shady Grove. Everything is done in that clinic (egg retrieval, embryo transfer, doctor visits), unlike Columbia (the OB visits were in Ballston in our case but the egg retrieval and embryo transfer were in the DC location) and Shady Grove (the OB visits were in Fair Oaks in our case but the egg retrieval was all the way in Shady Grove, Maryland). All in all, we were very pleased with the whole process. To top it all off, though we retrieved only 2 eggs and only fertilized one viable embryo, it resulted in a successful pregnancy.

What did you prefer to CFA besides going to the main location rather than satellite location?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to CCRM as well and had a good experience but this seems like a marketing ploy.

Not a marketing ploy, but thank you for the feedback. Just wanted to share our experience. Hope this information is useful for someone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We did our IVF procedure at CCRM back in February 2021 after 2 egg retrievals with Columbia Fertility and 2 egg retrievals with Shady Grove. CCRM was going to be our last stop before we decided to give up on IVF. We had an unexplained fertility issue. One of the most important things about CCRM that appealed to us is their lab's reputation. Our initial meeting with Dr. Payson solidified our decision of moving forward with CCRM. He was always very positive but also made sure that we were aware of all the possibilities. Unlike Shady Grove where they rotated us with different doctors depending on availability at the time (we only met with our assigned doctor twice (she didn't even do our egg retrieval)), Dr. Payson was at all the important procedures (egg retrieval and embryo transfer) and at most of the OB visits (there is another doctor that would alternate with him on these visits. The clinic itself is also in much better shape than Columbia and Shady Grove. Everything is done in that clinic (egg retrieval, embryo transfer, doctor visits), unlike Columbia (the OB visits were in Ballston in our case but the egg retrieval and embryo transfer were in the DC location) and Shady Grove (the OB visits were in Fair Oaks in our case but the egg retrieval was all the way in Shady Grove, Maryland). All in all, we were very pleased with the whole process. To top it all off, though we retrieved only 2 eggs and only fertilized one viable embryo, it resulted in a successful pregnancy.

What did you prefer to CFA besides going to the main location rather than satellite location?

Sorry I’m not sure I understand your question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We did our IVF procedure at CCRM back in February 2021 after 2 egg retrievals with Columbia Fertility and 2 egg retrievals with Shady Grove. CCRM was going to be our last stop before we decided to give up on IVF. We had an unexplained fertility issue. One of the most important things about CCRM that appealed to us is their lab's reputation. Our initial meeting with Dr. Payson solidified our decision of moving forward with CCRM. He was always very positive but also made sure that we were aware of all the possibilities. Unlike Shady Grove where they rotated us with different doctors depending on availability at the time (we only met with our assigned doctor twice (she didn't even do our egg retrieval)), Dr. Payson was at all the important procedures (egg retrieval and embryo transfer) and at most of the OB visits (there is another doctor that would alternate with him on these visits. The clinic itself is also in much better shape than Columbia and Shady Grove. Everything is done in that clinic (egg retrieval, embryo transfer, doctor visits), unlike Columbia (the OB visits were in Ballston in our case but the egg retrieval and embryo transfer were in the DC location) and Shady Grove (the OB visits were in Fair Oaks in our case but the egg retrieval was all the way in Shady Grove, Maryland). All in all, we were very pleased with the whole process. To top it all off, though we retrieved only 2 eggs and only fertilized one viable embryo, it resulted in a successful pregnancy.

What did you prefer to CFA besides going to the main location rather than satellite location?

Sorry I’m not sure I understand your question.

I am trying to understand what you liked better about CCRM over cfa- sounds like you didn't like going to a satellite location of cfa ( eg not the main office where you'd see your dr for every monitoring appt and procedure). If you had been at the dc location for everything would you still prefer cfa?

[Anonymous]

Look up the sart success rates, last time I looked at ccrm Tyson’s overall Ivf success rate was quite low compared to shady grove

[Anonymous]

CCRM's strong reputatioin re: lab is based on their main lone tree CO location, not tysons... while you'd hope tyson's could replicate, it hasn't been proven yet. case in point, if you want to cycle at CCRM lone tree you have to even go there just for baseline - you can't even do that in tysons (though you can do general monitoring at tysons before you head out for retrieval). I've heard mixed results on CCRM Tysons, but if I'm ever going to spend the ~25K for one of their cycles, I'll be flying out to CO for it to ensure I get the best bang for my buck!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We did our IVF procedure at CCRM back in February 2021 after 2 egg retrievals with Columbia Fertility and 2 egg retrievals with Shady Grove. CCRM was going to be our last stop before we decided to give up on IVF. We had an unexplained fertility issue. One of the most important things about CCRM that appealed to us is their lab's reputation. Our initial meeting with Dr. Payson solidified our decision of moving forward with CCRM. He was always very positive but also made sure that we were aware of all the possibilities. Unlike Shady Grove where they rotated us with different doctors depending on availability at the time (we only met with our assigned doctor twice (she didn't even do our egg retrieval)), Dr. Payson was at all the important procedures (egg retrieval and embryo transfer) and at most of the OB visits (there is another doctor that would alternate with him on these visits. The clinic itself is also in much better shape than Columbia and Shady Grove. Everything is done in that clinic (egg retrieval, embryo transfer, doctor visits), unlike Columbia (the OB visits were in Ballston in our case but the egg retrieval and embryo transfer were in the DC location) and Shady Grove (the OB visits were in Fair Oaks in our case but the egg retrieval was all the way in Shady Grove, Maryland). All in all, we were very pleased with the whole process. To top it all off, though we retrieved only 2 eggs and only fertilized one viable embryo, it resulted in a successful pregnancy.

What did you prefer to CFA besides going to the main location rather than satellite location?

Sorry I’m not sure I understand your question.

I am trying to understand what you liked better about CCRM over cfa- sounds like you didn't like going to a satellite location of cfa ( eg not the main office where you'd see your dr for every monitoring appt and procedure). If you had been at the dc location for everything would you still prefer cfa?

Thanks clarifying. If you do not factor in the fact that we had a successful pregnancy/live birth with CCRM and we did not have to travel to another facility for the egg retrieval. Then I would say overall was CFA = CCRM. The protocols were similar and we really like our doctor at CFA. However 2 IUIs and 2 IVF cycles did not result in a full term pregnancy. Whereas 1 IVF at CCRM led to the birth of our daughter. Hope you find this to be helpful.

[Anonymous]

Good for you OP! We had success at CCRM Tysons also.