Anonymous
07/03/2015 22:15
Subject: Re:Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are you a patient of Dr Frankfurter by any chance? He's been moving almost exclusively to frozen transfers when the embryos look good. Fwiw, I did two cycles with GWU. My first cycle was a fresh transfer and failed. Second cycle, Dr F. suggested a freeze all and I'm now 10 weeks! So while that extra 6-8 weeks is a pain, I'd go with your Drs. recommendation because there is now data that the frozen is more succesful than a fresh....
This is interesting. My now almost 18 month DD is from a fresh cycle with Dr. F. I had 8 eggs retrieved, and we froze 4 embryos...two of which were high quality. I've been thinking about this because I'm now out of state and recently had them transferred to do a FET. It's interesting because I had actually considered transferring two, and he was concerned about my high e2 levels so we did SET. I wonder if now he would have had me freeze-all.
I have a 19mo DS, who was a product of Dr Frankfurters efforts. We did a fresh transfer, but had none left to freeze. Just went through another cycle with him and he told me that shortly after my first cycle (as in months later), new research came out that suggested that freezing may have better results. For this cycle, we played it by ear but by day 3 post retrieval, he decided to do a fresh transfer, which wasn't successful.
Anonymous
06/30/2015 23:49
Subject: Re:Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Anonymous wrote:Are you a patient of Dr Frankfurter by any chance? He's been moving almost exclusively to frozen transfers when the embryos look good. Fwiw, I did two cycles with GWU. My first cycle was a fresh transfer and failed. Second cycle, Dr F. suggested a freeze all and I'm now 10 weeks! So while that extra 6-8 weeks is a pain, I'd go with your Drs. recommendation because there is now data that the frozen is more succesful than a fresh....
This is interesting. My now almost 18 month DD is from a fresh cycle with Dr. F. I had 8 eggs retrieved, and we froze 4 embryos...two of which were high quality. I've been thinking about this because I'm now out of state and recently had them transferred to do a FET. It's interesting because I had actually considered transferring two, and he was concerned about my high e2 levels so we did SET. I wonder if now he would have had me freeze-all.
Anonymous
06/29/2015 19:12
Subject: Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Widra at SG recommends the same. But my insurance does not allow a freeze all cycle - either transfer something or they don't pay. So did fresh and BFN.
I think the key word missing is "plan" to transfer something or they don't pay. For women who go into IVF and then none make it to 3/5 day, they are still covered. Or if your lining deteriorates, or you overstim and freeze-all, they will still cover. That's how it was explained to me.
Yes, they will pay if there is a medical indication not to continue with the transfer. I got an emergency approval for a freeze-all after I had a premature progesterone rise before trigger. But they will not cover it just as a matter of routine procedure.
So if you do pgs testing (which is a freeze-all), they won't pay for the cycle? I know they won't pay for the PGS...
Anonymous
06/29/2015 19:06
Subject: Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Widra at SG recommends the same. But my insurance does not allow a freeze all cycle - either transfer something or they don't pay. So did fresh and BFN.
I think the key word missing is "plan" to transfer something or they don't pay. For women who go into IVF and then none make it to 3/5 day, they are still covered. Or if your lining deteriorates, or you overstim and freeze-all, they will still cover. That's how it was explained to me.
Yes, they will pay if there is a medical indication not to continue with the transfer. I got an emergency approval for a freeze-all after I had a premature progesterone rise before trigger. But they will not cover it just as a matter of routine procedure.
Anonymous
06/29/2015 18:12
Subject: Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Widra at SG recommends the same. But my insurance does not allow a freeze all cycle - either transfer something or they don't pay. So did fresh and BFN.
I think the key word missing is "plan" to transfer something or they don't pay. For women who go into IVF and then none make it to 3/5 day, they are still covered. Or if your lining deteriorates, or you overstim and freeze-all, they will still cover. That's how it was explained to me.
Yes, thank you for that correction, what I wrote was a more simplistic version.
Anonymous
06/29/2015 10:54
Subject: Did you do fresh or fet and why?
Frozens never worked for me, only fresh