Fertility appointment

Hi there, I was on waitlist for fertility appointment with the hospital but it took so long my fiancé and I decided to go private. However, even then, because things were so fully booked it took us about 3 months to get all the necessary tests out of the way.

The first appointment was us talking about a plan.

we then had an appointment for me to do ultrasound and bloods and my partner to do Semen analysis.

then we had an appointment to discuss results and what steps we would like to take. And what would be needed for each of those.

I had to have another appointment to check my thyroid just in case and also time for rubella vaccine and to collate other evidence of cervical smear from gp.

finally we had to set an appointment to receive our meds.

then an appointment to take my bloods to see where I am in my cycle.

and then if I hadn’t ovulated, I would have been instructed to induce a bleed using the progesterone pills. But because I had ovulated I waited to bleed naturally and was told to tell them when my first day was.

all of this took very long, and because it was the ovulation induction method we chose we eventually were able to start, but when talking about IVF it would have been another couple of months wait after that.

wishing you the best 🩷

For me it was around 8 weeks from the GP sending the letter to actually being seen in the fertility clinic so I thought that was quite good really!

I'd also be interested to know how long you had to wait to get the appointment. I'm Midlands based too and was referred in February, I still haven't been given an appointment yet but I know the wait time is long.

How long did you have to wait for the appointment once you got given the date? I'm worried that I'll finally get the letter then the appointment won't be for another 6 months!

Hi @Turkeyface do you mind if I ask how long you've waited? I'm in a similar area & have just been referred for an ultrasound, have my blood test in a couple of weeks

Sadly not, it’s more making a plan about what tests to do next - of course it might be different for if you previous results were different to mine. He basically said all your results so far are normal so this is the standard next step. I think my pelvic ultrasound was about 2 weeks later but they don’t let you book the HSG until the first day of your next period as if you did happen to be pregnant it would cause you to miscarry. They then said I would hope to be seen in 1-2 cycles but if I hadn’t been given an appt they would try and prioritise me for the next one - this is why the follow appt was booked for like 10 weeks after the first to allow you to have had both these tests and they can collate the results.
if you think about it though you are seeing a doc in the fertility clinic which is a comptlely different area of the hospital to ultrasound where you’d see a sonographer and provide a report so they can’t really so everything on the same day, and I said the HSG needs to be planned!

hi! I’m also midland based and when I had mine it was basically a really thorough questionnaire for both, and then because everything was normal with bloods and swabs run by the GP I was told the next step was a pelvic ultrasound scan and a HSG and I got given an appt for the scan on the day, and was told to ring up on the first day of next period to book the HSG. I was also weighed to make sure BMI was ok! Think that was about it, was about 15 mins long! I then got a letter in the post for a follow up appt about 2 months later to discuss the results of the two procedures!
good luck!