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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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How do you do a lot of your monitoring locally? I have cycled at Cornell and was told that I need to come up after the baseline or maybe the second monitoring.  Also, where do you monitor locally on weekends?  [/quote]

Cornell didn't LOVE having me monitor locally but they didn't forbid it. The difference is that at Cornell there are doctors performing all the ultrasounds, and they also don't want to deal with having to wait for results to be faxed or emailed in from the local clinic. In their defense, SG was late with results on more than one occasion, leaving me to have to be the middleman between both offices, calling and seeing if things were sent, etc. Cornell does require that after your lead follicle reaches a certain point (I apologize for not recalling what this is but I was to say 12mm?) you come in and stay through retrieval. You just need to be straightforward with your nurse about your capabilities. I monitored at Shady Grove and did so over the weekends as well. Zero issues with SG. On the cycle I was paying out of pocket, this did cost roughly $300 which was a pain because I technically had already paid for the full cycle at Cornell, which included monitoring. So after I paid that first $300, I was like, hell no, and that's when I decided I would take the Amtrak up and back (up on the 4am, back on the 11:30 -- it was crazy I admit! But I could even get to work for the 2nd half). Once I had insurance, I stayed local until the nurses told me I needed to come up. [/quote]

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