Going Private?

[meggles]

Morning ladies... I had been staying away from Mumsnet for awhile to get my head clear. But I now need some support and guidance.

Our 'timeline':

Sep 09 - Started TTC

Feb 10- Sympathetic GP ordered 21 day bloods, due to long (40+) day cycles. All fine.

Mar 10- SA fine.

June 10- Fertilty Appointment scheduled but cancelled due to....

June 10- BFP

July 10- Miscarry

Even though we've been TTC for 17 months, we've only had 13 cycles due to longish cycles.

We're going back to our GP in 2 weeks to get re-referred to fertility specialist. However, in case she won't refer us, I wanted to start investigating private specialists. Has anyone go this route? Any advice? Any guidance on prices?

Thanks!

I am sitting in a private hospital room as I write this as just had ovarian drilling. Going private is lovely a consultation cost £175. Well worth it in my opinion as everything happens so quickly. Operations however are expensive mine was about £3000-but you do get free molton brown stuff in the bathroom!

I'm having private treatment, too. For us, we had no choice because we already have DS. However, we are having problems conceiving #2.

Yes, it's costly and it can mount up [you just have to be careful not to get too carried away] but I get appointments at short notice, consultations that last an hour so I can ask as many Q's as I want, I can email my consultant any Q's and he will reply the same or next day, better environment, more positive/sympathetic staff ... sorry if it comes across as if I'm critisizing the NHS [I'm not, they do a stellar job given their resources].

I have just had a medicated IUI cycle and it has cost me £800 but that's a clinic in London with great results so I'm sure that the cost is not as much elsewhere.

meggles Investigation costs I'm not sure about but in London an IVF cycle costs about £3k and between £1.2k and £3.5k for drugs. You need a few blood tests etc. before you can do any treatment, things like chlamydia, HIV and Rubella, and if you haven't had any of the tests before I think the total cost of all the screening tests including partner's sperm analysis is about £850. Hope that helps!

I didn't have difficulty conceiving but my gynaecologist specializes in fertility.
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