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Could you please elaborate specifically:
1) how is the lab superior? have you been there?   Is there more equipment than other clinics, equipment is newer, they have more PhDs per square foot?  What does superior mean exactly?
2) what were the extra test other than progesterone? How many times did you test progesterone at SGF vs CCRM?  what else was included in "more monitoring" that lacked in other clinics?
3) Track/monitor data - SGF does the same as well as research which they actually publish in scientific peer reviewed journals.

Unless you can answer with specifics rather than glossy brochure general sentences, you have contributed exactly nothing to this discussion.[/quote]

NP.  Not keen on your tone but I'll try to answer what I can.  I cycled at CCRM back in 2009, and I obviously don't have my records here handy at work.  I should add that I was not successful at CCRM but would still recommend it, or another out-of-state clinic, because my experience tracks that of the other PP.  It was more thorough, more tailored.

CCRM has you go out for a full one-day work-up where they do a ridiculous amount of testing.  The only ones I recall off the top of my head that they did that SGF didn't do were AMH, MTHFR and uterine doppler to test for blood flow.  My blood flow was showing on the weak side, possibly due to prior uterine surgery, for which they recommend a particular acupuncture protocol.  Since my blood flow was borderline, I was told I could do it or not at my discretion.  I also was found to have a homozygous MTHFR mutation, which can mean that your body doesn't metabolize/process folic acid correctly.  I was put on Folgard and then when finally pregnant (from a different out-of-state clinic) my homocysteine levels were tested by an MFM in case I needed further medication (Lovenox, etc.).  At my other out-of-state clinic as well as CCRM, both progesterone and estradiol levels were checked with each beta, and meds adjusted if necessary, whereas they weren't checked at SGF.

As far as the lab, Dr. Schoolcraft himself gives credit to his lab and embryologists.  They were the pioneers of microarray testing, weren't they?  I know my other out-of-state lab (ORM, or as I like to call it CCRM lite) does the CCS (comprehensive chromosome testing) in-house whereas SGF sends it out.  Other out-of-state labs are similarly doing unique things (i.e., Cornell and it's co-culture).

Finally, when I was at SGF, I was put on the microdose lupron protocol, which was developed by, wait for it, Dr. Schoolcraft at CCRM.

I don't know if this answers your questions, but hopefully it gives someone out there some food for thought. [/quote]

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