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[quote=Anonymous]I am now 40, started using Dr. Sacks last summer when I was a 39 year old newlywed.  We were with him July 2009 - January 2010.

We did 5 IUIs that were un-successful, and then took the super-expensive drugs to do an IVF cycle, but ended up doing an IUI again because I didn't produce eggs (apparently I create lots of eggs on Clomid, but not on the super-expensive drugs - how annoying is THAT to find out!)

I thought Dr. Sacks was Top Notch.  He gave me the best explanation of my hormonal disorder I have ever heard.  When you ask questions, he will answer you and also tell you if it is something you want to consider, or if it is not worth worrying about.  You can discuss what you would like to do and why - and he will tell you why it might not be a good reason, take your prefs into consideration.

I left the practice for SG because the office seemed very disorganized and that caused me significant stress.  I don't like it when a nurse calls and she tells me to start taking drugs that I have already started taking.  We had four indicents like that.  I believe they had some nurses retire recently and are training new ones.  I have a friend who went there two years earlier and she loved her nurse (the one who retired)

Consider the fact that most of the time, you deal with the nurse.  Ask to meet your IVF nurse.  How many IVF nurses are there?  How long have they been with the practice?  What days do they work?  Do you have a "primary" nurse?

Despite the stress of the constantly changing nurses, I felt like the folks at Columbia Fertility had more freedom to tell me the "real deal".  I feel like I only get the company line at SG.  But, I really like they way SG gives you one principle POC - I no longer worry that I have been forgotten.

I will be back with Dr. Sacks if this cycle doesn't work, because he will let me do a Clomid IVF cycle and it sounds like SG has a pre-determined path you must follow, even if you are in the 2% of people that it doens't work for - does not allow you to try different things.  (our health insurance doesn't cover anything for this, so paying for the $5K of drugs that don't work is annoying the 3rd time around when we know that the cheap Clomid produces for me)

Best of luck to you!!!

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