AIBU to ask how much you paid for IVF?

[EmbarrassingMama]

Can I ask how much you spent on IVF / fertility treatment? How many rounds did you go for and did you successfully get pregnant and carry to term?

First round free on NHS. Paid about £8.5k for a two round ICSI deal with Access Fertility (which is a rum do that I never fully understood - it’s a finance deal sold by the clinic) plus about £2.5k on meds from ASDA (I’d shopped around). First of those two produced DD.

First two mild protocol IVF cycles with ICSI and PGS cost about £16k

Both failed

Now signed up to 3 cycles of natural modified with ICSI for £13k including medication and transfers and this will be the last of it

I had IUI so can’t contribute with how long it took etc but check out Create as they offer natural IVF, which is cheaper.

Friend paid £91,000

She had eggs from Spain. As she didn’t make them and in the uk. The egg donor can find their offspring? So she went to Spain. Where they can’t

Something along those lines.

Where we live we were only entitled to a partial, not full, round of IVF on the NHS, ie one fresh transfer and one frozen. Fresh transfer didn't take but our one and only free attempt with 2 frozen embryos did work. One embryo implanted and we now have an amazing 14 month DS. We are so incredibly lucky. Still have two frozen embryos in storage that we pay £100 a year to store. If we decide to use them it will cost £1000+ for the FET.

Was entitled to NHS treatment, but the waiting list would have seen me go over the age limit. Was ripped off by a LONDON CLINIC who recommended virtually useless treatment for my age. I reported them and was offered a discount on IVF - as if I would go back. Ended up going to Eastern Europe to a fantastic clinic, had lots of tests, including a procedure and then IVF. Around 7,000 including drugs and scans 13 years ago no resulting in twins first time.

Good luck OP.

Really do.your research, don't just rely on what the clinic tells you.

So far we've spent £16k with no success. Only had one cycle on the NHS. About to move to a new clinic with a different approach which is going to cost about £15k a cycle (but up to £30k for the cycle if it's successful because they continue medication and monitoring way in to pregnancy). We've been dry lucky to have some help from parents. We're going to stop trying after this coming year though - we're almost at the end of how far we're willing to go.

First round (ICSI) on NHS resulted in DD1. Drugs were included but I paid for a private blood test at £250.
Second round (ICSI) private but at the same NHS hospital as first round. All tests etc under NHS but ICSI was around £3500. Drugs started off at £500 but I needed some expensive ones which were about £100 per injection so total drug cost was closer to the £1-2k mark. Resulted in DD2. Was happy being private in NHS but it was definitely no frills in comparison to private clinics but we were confident in their treatments etc. We had no frozen embryos for either cycle but that was the embryo quality and nothing to do with where the treatment was done.

1st round- free NHS- Ds
Thought would be easy second time but ended up having 3 fresh cycles/2 FET- 1 miscarriage and another DS- probably £13-15,000 but second son is now ten.
Remember to factor in storage costs for frozen embryos and drugs can be expensive.
Wishing you all the best

One free cycle of ICSI on the NHS which worked and produced 6 embryos to freeze. We pay £100 per year to store them. Recently went back for a frozen embryo transfer, which worked again. Cost just short of £2k for that. Currently 12 weeks pregnant with no 2.

We know we are incredibly fortunate and at the outset cancelled our wedding plans as we didn't know how much all this would cost.

Good luck to everyone going through this. Its terribly unfair.

One free round - worked by some miracle. Although paid 700 quid for embryoscope and a fair bit doing acupuncture too (not in the thousands though).

Good Luck OP. It’s very difficult and stressful and also unfair as there is so much luck involved.

An eye watering £25,000.
This was 20 years ago. It would have paid a large chunk off a mortgage in the late 1990's.

Still makes me feel odd. But no help was available for the advanced treatment we needed.

I think Fertility First have money back guarantees and unlimited rounds/cycles for a set fee.

£1,900 IVF with ICSI 15 years ago, NHS hospital, had choice to wait 4 years and not move areas or pay. Fortunately the doctor funded the drugs so was just the £1,900 hospital fees, said he was risking his job for the drugs and would get a letter saying they could strike him off but he didn't agree with us having to pay. It worked - two embryos implanted and one took and is now 14. Then a few months after she was born I got pregnant naturally, didn't find out until 11 weeks pregnant.

£6k at chelsfield 2 yrs ago. (They put me on a high drug dose which raised the cost a bit.) Turned out my body doesn’t respond to the stimulation drugs anyway so for me not worth trying ivf again.

Go to Serum or Argc or the Lister or Zita West. Do the ‘greek tests’ with somewhere like locus medicus first in case you need a round of antibiotics first: this is standard practice in all US ivf clinics but unfashionable in UK despite a proven increase in success rates.

We thought we’d save money by using chelsfield but there were several things that made me regret that decision.

Also be aware that the drugs are a huge part of the cost but you don’t have to buy them from the clinic that prescribes them. The clinics mark up the drug prices to make their profit but one of the supermarkets (asda I think??) sells IVF drugs from their pharmacy on a nonprofit basis, though I might be out of date. Worth looking into, would’ve saved us at least £1k.

Good luck.

Around £9000, so £7000 for donor egg icis/ivf, around £500 medication and another £1500 in travel, accommodation and extra tests, treatment in Europe. First fresh transfer worked and another 4 blastocyst frozen. Currently 19w pregnant from first transfer. Not entitled to NHS treatment as 41. All being well we'll try for a sibling, additional cost should be around £1200 for medication, travel etc. Hope this helps.

About 10k for 3 cycles medicated IUI with donor sperm, 1 round donor IVF and a FET, all private. IUI #1 BFN, IUI #2 miscarriage, IUI #3 chemical pregnancy, IVF #1 miscarriage/chemical pregnancy, FET #1 currently 23 weeks with a singleton pregnancy. No frosties left. Not impressed with the clinic I used for the first 4 rounds and strongly believe I would have got a different outcome elsewhere.

My DD was entitled to two rounds but didn't need it. She conceived first time. Whst a gift..

I paid £2200 back in April 2003which doesn't sound much but for perspective my 2 bed terrace in an extremely nice area cost £56,000 I also blew a couple of thousand more on clomid cycles and iui cycles first Back then there was some NHS funding but, a hell of a wait so I payed privately We scrimped and saved to pay but totally worth it Pregnant first go I remember being offered it for free for egg sharing but declined that

We were entitled to 3 rounds on NHS but private was better geographically. Successful with ICSI on first attempt, private, so didn't do NHS at all. £6500 12 years ago

At 35 I was toi old in my area for NHS treatment. We used donor eggs as I didn't want to pass on a genetic condition. Had treatment split between ul and Spain with linked clinics. £10k gave us 2 rounds. The second round gave us our gorgeous son, now 4 x

£3800. That was for one round, 1 transfer. I egg shared so donated half of my eggs produced to someone in need of donor eggs for their own treatment which also reduced cost. Currently 37 weeks pregnant 😊

I don’t want to think about it, Prob about 12k in total. pregnant on first nhs round which was amazing, had 6 frozen from this so paid for drugs/transfers after birth of DD and failed. Did ivf again, chemical pregnancy, and then failed frozen transfers (12).

I’m based in the North. I was entitled to one free round on the NHS which resulted in my amazing son who is now 6. We then paid for a new IVF round for a sibling, about £5k not including the IVF time lapse imaging photography (which was an extra £750) and we were super lucky that this again resulted in a healthy pregnancy of my now 4 year old son. Then I shockingly fell naturally pregnant at 40 delivering a month before my 41 birthday with my daughter who is now 2. I know I am so so lucky and am so thankful every day. Wishing you love and luck. Be kind to yourself. The hardest thing about IVF for me was the mental toll it takes on you x

A few hundred pounds -this was A LOT of train fares for internal scans and bloods. One week l had to go to the clinic 5 times. We got 1 partial cycle on the NHS, fresh transfer failed. There are 3 embryos in the freezer which will cost a couple of grand each to transfer. We will also have to start paying storage next year. As others have been side bear in mind medications can be eye wateringly expensive

I have heard good things about Serum from an acquaintance of mine. Not sure how much she spent but she did 11 cycles and there were some donor eggs. So lm guessing £100k+?