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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Ginger78][quote=Anonymous]I've done mini IVF. I did it in 2012 as part of a clinical trial studying the efficacy of mini vs. traditional (with New Hope in NYC -- allegedly they pioneered mini IVF). It worked for me and most of the people I was in contact with who were also in the trial. My DS was born in 2013.

I actually went to Dr. Widra thereafter for several rounds of traditional IVF, and while I do like the guy, he is really not the right person for mini IVF. I was on max stims for 3 cycles as part of Shared Risk and once it looked like the protocol wasn't going to be changing much, I switched clinics and found myself back in NYC, this time at Cornell. The cycles I did there (4 of them, I think?) were somewhere in between mini and traditional. I was on drastically reduced stims and the protocol was altogether pretty similar to New Hope's. I would recommend either NYC clinic. It sounds like a bigger pain than it is (cycling out of state). You can do a lot of your monitoring locally, or take the 4am train up, which is what I got used to doing!
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That is super helpful, thanks. Yes, the thought of going up there constantly was the big obstacle in my head. [/quote]

It really isn't so bad but that depends on the flexibility of your work. My boss at the time was made aware of everything going on -- I had been working for her for many years so we had developed a good relationship and proven myself -- so I was able to leave on short notice for monitoring or retrieval and just work from an AirBnB or whatever. So I was lucky in that regard. And it also isn't cheap. For all but one NYC cycle, I had insurance covering, so it took the bite out of the few hundred dollars for the hotel or AirBnB and the train rides. Once insurance kicked in, I did more monitoring at Shady Grove.[/quote]

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