A few days ago I mentioned in a comment on AP's blog that my friend T's IVF cycles have cost around $1500 dollars each in my home country. That's because she is doing it in a public hospital with a long waiting list. Basically, she gets to do IVF for free except for the meds. If she were doing it in a private clinic, the waiting list would be much shorter (she now has to wait four months for her next cycle), but the cost would be about $10,000. Still, much less than what you pay in the US.
That said, my home country is plagued with violence, insecurity, devaluations and, in general, a bad image here in the US. I would still consider going back to do IVF, especially if I were not working, because I probably would have to stay there for the whole cycle.
Then again, I have no way of knowing if I still will be working by the time I get my ovaries checked for cysts. Also, I still don't know if I will ever want to do IVF, for a number of reasons. Among them, I have witnessed the pain the two failed IVFs have caused T and her husband. Each dead embryo was for her a painful loss. The roller coaster of fertilization and transfer ending in no pregnancy seemed to me much worse than my own experience with failed IUIs.
I wonder if other people who have done IUIs and then IVF feel different levels of grief when the preocedures fail.
What decisions.
ReplyDeleteI have found failed ivf to feel much worse than failed iui (in my own experience). There are two reasons why: 1. with ivf the financial burdeon is heavy and it is a lot of money if it does not work 2. with iui I always felt like there was another step if this failed, with ivf you can only really keep doing IVF or move on to donor or adoption.
good luck to you.