Another happy, but unfortunately not yet successful, patient of Dr. Frankfurter and GW! I love working with Dr. F and also love that if he's not on duty the day I go in the other REs there know who I am and where I am in cycle and my history. I believe all the REs and nurses meet each day to go over everyone in cycle, their monitoring results and next steps. As others have said, he pays attention to your individual situation, tweaks protocols based on results, and will make sure you don't waste money on unnecessary tests or procedures. While GW doesn't have a shared risk program they will cut the price of IVF cycles if you are unsuccessful.

I would call and ask to make sure, but I think GW works with women up to age 50. Just call. They'll tell you.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't get a response to my earlier question, so here's asking it in a different way.

Has anyone who is over 45 worked successfully with Dr. F? He sounds like an ideal person to work with in many ways, but wondering if he's willing to work with older women?

He will work with you doing donor egg since getting pregnant with artificial means at your age means no difference when trying on your own, both are 1-3% success.

That's so not true. The chances of becoming pregnant with a donor egg are much, much higher than with OE. Don't have the stats at my fingertips, but this is so wrong, I had to say something.

I think the pp meant trying OE IVF or trying on your own without ART have 1-3% success at 45, not donor egg.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't get a response to my earlier question, so here's asking it in a different way.

Has anyone who is over 45 worked successfully with Dr. F? He sounds like an ideal person to work with in many ways, but wondering if he's willing to work with older women?

He will work with you doing donor egg since getting pregnant with artificial means at your age means no difference when trying on your own, both are 1-3% success.

That's so not true. The chances of becoming pregnant with a donor egg are much, much higher than with OE. Don't have the stats at my fingertips, but this is so wrong, I had to say something.

Another happy Dr. F patient with the result sleeping in her nursery. We had what seemed like a straightforward MFI case, until several failed cycles later. Switched to GW and Dr. F, and he finally listened, explained everything, and followed up on every minor symptom/slightly unusual thing until he found the issue (undiagnosed Asherman's for me). Got pregnant on my first IVF/ICSI with him.

If you're staying local, I'd feel pretty confident in Dr. F since he really is very thorough and never makes you feel like you're in an IVF factory (even though the morning monitoring set up at GW definitely is assembly-line like). No one can promise success, but he really will customize your care to you. And if you don't understand/agree with his recommendation, efinitely just ask. After so many failures, I wanted to transfer two embryos. He called me the night before the transfer to discuss his reasoning with me for transferring only one (mainly my estrogen levels). I really felt well taken care of after having felt like a number at another DC clinic.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't get a response to my earlier question, so here's asking it in a different way.

Has anyone who is over 45 worked successfully with Dr. F? He sounds like an ideal person to work with in many ways, but wondering if he's willing to work with older women?

He will work with you doing donor egg since getting pregnant with artificial means at your age means no difference when trying on your own, both are 1-3% success.

give him a call.

Neither am I. I'm his patient now but I'm <45. Sorry not much help.

Sorry - I am not trying to ignore your question about age, I just don't know the answer!

I didn't get a response to my earlier question, so here's asking it in a different way.

Has anyone who is over 45 worked successfully with Dr. F? He sounds like an ideal person to work with in many ways, but wondering if he's willing to work with older women?

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I think the argument probably is that it doesn't improve your odds enough to be worth the risk of losing embyros (there is a risk) AND the significant added expense. In other words, you will get pregnant just as quickly as you would using PGS just because you are very young and your odds are very good. Because PGS is no guarantee.

But I would be interested to hear what Dr F says! Post back if you think of it.

This.

Dr F doesn't want seem to be the type to unnecessarily get a patients hopes up OR have them do unnecessary procedures to rack up the bills. He's a solid guy and knows his stuff.

We started with Dr G and then were switched to Dr F when Dr G left GW right before our cycle started. Dr F was the only doc at the time and I still feld like he was focused on my case when he was dealing with me. He's an excellent doctor and a great man. we had success our first time and I'm starting to wonder if it's time to start thinking about #2. We have nothing frozen.