*Tricia*

lnross

Congrats on your BFP!!

I was wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me who your RE is.  DH and I have already had a consult with one and I really like him, but as we get closer to our target IVF date I am suddenly feeling like I should at least look at other RE's.  Maybe I'm just getting "cold feet" about the process.  I'm so excited about the end result (or at least what we hope will be the end result) but the whole IVF process is daunting. 

TIA & congrats again! 

lafelts80

**butting in**

 She sees Dr. Moghadam - that's also who Mel, Mel's cousin, and I think a few others have used.  We had a second opinion appt with him and really  liked him as well, but that was the point that we decided to stop doing things. 

holdn5

::Butting In Too::  I saw Dr. Jarrett and he's at the same practice as Dr. M. While I didn't go through any procedures, Dr. J put me on glucophage and we got pg within 2 months, so I feel he also knows what he's doing...but then again it could be purely coincindental.

Carmela752

Yup!

I really like Dr. M. He knows I'm a nurse and that I want the super specific medical facts, so he always gives them to me without my having to ask. He's nice. When he writes in my chart, he says it out loud as he's writing so I know what he's writing. He drew my blood himself when the MA couldn't get it. Etc, etc.

Who have you seen?

Good luck with IVF. All the drugs are definitely daunting, and I only had femara/follistim/ovidrel. I know that you stick people for a living too, but it's still a little nervewracking doing it to yourself, hehe.

Let me know if there's anything else I can tell you, etc.

Thanks!

lnross

We saw Dr Donahue for a consult back in January and really like him.  He was also really good about giving us specifics and talking to us on a more medical level (DH is a medic also).

He owns his own practice (Family Beginings) and labs/proceedure rooms, so the cost is reduced - no hospital fees.  This was the main reason we initialy chose him.  Cost is a major factor for us since our insurance pays for nothing related to IF.  If it didn't cost so stinkin' much we'd have done it already.  We really liked Dr D and his estimated cost is only $10 -11,000 for a full cycle usuing long lupron protocol, surgical seman aspiration and ICSI - all of which we need.  I am just starting to feel like maybe we should "shop around" a bit before we make a decision this big. 

 I completely agree about sticking yourself.  I cringe just thinking about it.  Funny thing is I don't mind getting IV's, but I hate IM/SC injections.  And the though of giving them to myself is not a happy one.  Secretly I'm praying to find someone at work who will do it when DH can't!

 Congrats again!!  I'm so excited for you and Laura.  Makes it feel a lot more hopeful that I will be posting a BFP post one day too.

Totally not related to this post - you're working poison control at Methodist now, right?  Are you in the room next to the double doors by ER ambulance triage?  If so, I walk past there about a million times a week.  I'm surprised we haven't run into eachother.

mrs.melluvslogan

I just wanted to confirm that Dr. M was the one who I saw.  He was great!  Dr. Donahue is on the southside, right?  I think that was the other one I was going to go see until I decided to just see Dr. M. (when I was shopping for REs and got tired of it)  A consult with Dr. M wouldn't hurt, just to get another opinion at least!