Anonymous wrote:Wait, CCRM does both shots and suppositories for progesterone? Why both?

SG does both as well.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 43. After a few months TTC, I went straight to IVF due to my age. My numbers were good for someone my age but I didn't want the MC risk.

I've been at SGF with Dr. Moon. Not a lot of hand holding, but I've never gone without getting a need met or a question answered. I am the odd duck that likes the fact they see a LOT of people. I feel like the volumes of data they gather must be a good thing. Most importantly, I've been successful, so far. First retrieval ultimately yielded 1 healthy embryo (out of 15 follicles 10 were mature, 8 fertilized, 2 sent for PGS, 1 normal). Normal embryo transferred 9/27.

I was a patient of Dr. Moon SGF at 40, but was unsuccessful. I switched to Dr. Eric Widra at SGF, and I’m still trying to conceive at 42. I just had an egg retrieval, and 3 embryos were sent for pgs testing. Did you have success with your single viable embryo?

OP any update on what you chose?

Anonymous wrote:since they do all the monitoring in tysons, if you're at CCRM and work in DC, does that exacerbate your commute?

yeah it is far. but remember it's max 2 weeks.

since they do all the monitoring in tysons, if you're at CCRM and work in DC, does that exacerbate your commute?

Like the previous poster, I also like the fact that SGF does a ton of volume. Like most medical procedures, it is helpful to have doctors and lab folks who do a high volume so they have plenty of practice. I saw Dr. Widra at SGF at the age of 40 after a miscarriage. My protocol was similar to CCRM, with PGS and frozen transfer. My impression of Dr. Widra is that he looks closely at your profile to determine odds for success. There are definitely outliers, and some will be on the lucky end of the statistics, but he tends to look at averages and tells you the realistic odds. I had a positive outcome with him but was also a straightforward case.