Unexplained Infertility IVF Success_What Clinic Did You Use?

[Anonymous]

After 6 years and a few rounds of failed IUI, I am heading to IVF. I had one "honeymoon" child conceived at 22. Now I'm 30. I have regular periods, healthy BMI, no other health problems, and all our tests (including immunology) come back normal. Multiple doctors confirmed that I don't have diminishing ovarian reserve, PCOS, or endometriosis. They all believed I ovulated, even though none of my OPK tests from the $1 sticks to the most expensive digital tests in the market showed positive ever. A HCG urine test done 2-3 days after Ovidrel also showed negative, but doctor insisted Ovidrel worked. Anybody here is similar? Did you ever find out what was wrong? What clinic (GW, CCRM, CFA, SG, Dominion, etc.) did you have success with? How many IVF cycles (fresh & frozen) did you go through?

[Anonymous]

Which clinic are you using now for IUIs?

CRM in NYC worked for us
3 failed IVF/FET cycles down here
4th cycle in NYC worked

IVF can be diagnostic - they can see there are any egg/fertilization issues.

How is your DH's sperm? DNA % fragmentation issues?

[Anonymous]

In your case I would try natural cycle IVF if you amdont have insurance coverage. I used dominion fertility.

[Anonymous]

We had IUI's with SG and CFA. Their IVF protocols just look so standard (let's add everything from ICSI to embryo testing to make sure we cover all area,) while my case is not that standard. Sperm is good. My eggs are also good based on the blood work results, but of course you won't know for sure without IVF. One cycle of fresh IVF/ICSI/PGD is over $20k excluding medication, and all out of pocket. I feel like I only have ONE chance unless I go with shared risk. But SG's billing was a total nightmare.

[Anonymous]

**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.

Overall how did you find going through this process with CFA? We are currently working with Dr. Sacks but doing IUIs, trying to consider what our options would be if we go to IVF. It has been very challenging for us as we went to CFA thinking we could have monitoring done at their Arlington office and now we are told it is hit or miss when there will be a doctor in the Arlington office. Was the decision to wait to do the transfer yours, or Dr. Sacks?

[Anonymous]

Unexplained case here. Every test DH and I took came back normal. Did 2 IUIs which didn't work. First IVF did. Put in an untested embryo on a fresh transfer. I was 35 at ER and 36 at delivery. This was all at SG.

[Anonymous]

Unexplained here. Started trying at 36. Two rounds of NCIVF at Dominion. 1 IVF round abroad. Finally pregnant at CCRM Nova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unexplained here. Started trying at 36. Two rounds of NCIVF at Dominion. 1 IVF round abroad. Finally pregnant at CCRM Nova.

congrats! was this your first transfer at ccrm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unexplained here. Started trying at 36. Two rounds of NCIVF at Dominion. 1 IVF round abroad. Finally pregnant at CCRM Nova.

congrats! was this your first transfer at ccrm?

Sorry, I'm the above post but I'm not OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unexplained here. Started trying at 36. Two rounds of NCIVF at Dominion. 1 IVF round abroad. Finally pregnant at CCRM Nova.

congrats! was this your first transfer at ccrm?

Sorry, I'm the above post but I'm not OP.

Ack, wrong quoted post. Ignore previous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unexplained here. Started trying at 36. Two rounds of NCIVF at Dominion. 1 IVF round abroad. Finally pregnant at CCRM Nova.

congrats! was this your first transfer at ccrm?

Yup first transfer at CCRM (2 others prior at other clinics) but did 2 cycles back to back to bank embryos. Only got one PGS normal the first round and couldn’t bear to transfer and wait only to possibly find it didn’t work. We asked not to know which embryo they transferred from the 3 total normal we had, and what do you know it turns out they transferred the one from the first round!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.

Overall how did you find going through this process with CFA? We are currently working with Dr. Sacks but doing IUIs, trying to consider what our options would be if we go to IVF. It has been very challenging for us as we went to CFA thinking we could have monitoring done at their Arlington office and now we are told it is hit or miss when there will be a doctor in the Arlington office. Was the decision to wait to do the transfer yours, or Dr. Sacks?

We had a similar experience - planning to have most of our monitoring done at the Arlington office, only to find out that most of the monitoring would have to be done in DC. For me, that wasn't a huge deal because I come into DC every day for work. It was annoying...but the whole process is annoying....so....whatever. Honestly...I found working with CFA to be FAR better than other reports on DCUM and elsewhere. Their back office/billing staff were helpful and basically worked seamlessly with our insurance (which, thankfully, covered pretty much everything - we're very fortunate). (This is something that CCRM NoVA really screwed up for our initial testing, by the way.) I found Dr. Sacks to be compassionate. Waiting to do the transfer was our decision, not his. He would have done an FET right away (or the next cycle) if we'd have asked, given that my blood work/blood pressure/other health indicators are otherwise good. He just recommended that I remain on a Mediterranean diet throughout the pregnancy - which I'm doing already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.

Overall how did you find going through this process with CFA? We are currently working with Dr. Sacks but doing IUIs, trying to consider what our options would be if we go to IVF. It has been very challenging for us as we went to CFA thinking we could have monitoring done at their Arlington office and now we are told it is hit or miss when there will be a doctor in the Arlington office. Was the decision to wait to do the transfer yours, or Dr. Sacks?

We had a similar experience - planning to have most of our monitoring done at the Arlington office, only to find out that most of the monitoring would have to be done in DC. For me, that wasn't a huge deal because I come into DC every day for work. It was annoying...but the whole process is annoying....so....whatever. Honestly...I found working with CFA to be FAR better than other reports on DCUM and elsewhere. Their back office/billing staff were helpful and basically worked seamlessly with our insurance (which, thankfully, covered pretty much everything - we're very fortunate). (This is something that CCRM NoVA really screwed up for our initial testing, by the way.) I found Dr. Sacks to be compassionate. Waiting to do the transfer was our decision, not his. He would have done an FET right away (or the next cycle) if we'd have asked, given that my blood work/blood pressure/other health indicators are otherwise good. He just recommended that I remain on a Mediterranean diet throughout the pregnancy - which I'm doing already.

OP here. Do you mind letting me know how transfer at CFA goes?
I thought I could have gone to the Arlington office too. But I went there for my IUI monitorings and they had to call the doctor from DC asking what I was doing there. They almost attempted to draw my blood for some random infectious diseases testing that day. I just worried if they are that chaotic, would they mess up my eggs, sperms, embryos with someone else's. ?

At least their billing has been fine. I was tempted by Shared Risk and the fact they have much closer office. But it took us over a year fighting SG for things that covered by insurance because they submitted the wrong codes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:**Disclaimer** We haven't done a transfer yet, so I don't actually have a baby. But our first/only retrieval cycle was successful.

I am 36 and significantly overweight, but have no health issues (blood sugar/A1C, blood pressure, etc. all fine). CCRM and GW weren't willing to go forward with an egg retrieval until my BMI was significantly lower. Columbia Fertility Associates didn't have a problem going forward right away. I don't have DOR, I ovulate, and have regular periods (30-33 days). My husband has slightly low morphology, but not so low that they were willing to say we had male factor. We were diagnosed as unexplained.

My response to the stim meds was textbook. Retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were mature. 8 fertilized, and all 8 made it to blast. 6 out of the 8 were PGS normal. We plan to do a transfer early in the new year after I've lost a bit more weight. (I'm 35 pounds down since April.) We worked with Dr. Sacks, and were really pleased.

Overall how did you find going through this process with CFA? We are currently working with Dr. Sacks but doing IUIs, trying to consider what our options would be if we go to IVF. It has been very challenging for us as we went to CFA thinking we could have monitoring done at their Arlington office and now we are told it is hit or miss when there will be a doctor in the Arlington office. Was the decision to wait to do the transfer yours, or Dr. Sacks?

We had a similar experience - planning to have most of our monitoring done at the Arlington office, only to find out that most of the monitoring would have to be done in DC. For me, that wasn't a huge deal because I come into DC every day for work. It was annoying...but the whole process is annoying....so....whatever. Honestly...I found working with CFA to be FAR better than other reports on DCUM and elsewhere. Their back office/billing staff were helpful and basically worked seamlessly with our insurance (which, thankfully, covered pretty much everything - we're very fortunate). (This is something that CCRM NoVA really screwed up for our initial testing, by the way.) I found Dr. Sacks to be compassionate. Waiting to do the transfer was our decision, not his. He would have done an FET right away (or the next cycle) if we'd have asked, given that my blood work/blood pressure/other health indicators are otherwise good. He just recommended that I remain on a Mediterranean diet throughout the pregnancy - which I'm doing already.

I work in Alexandria, so going into D.C. is a huge pain for me. Also, we have one in preschool so it isn't like we can go in for the earlier times to beat the horrible traffic driving in. I do like Dr. Sacks, so appreciate this feedback.