IUI vs IVF

[RLM85]

Hi all,

New to this forum.

My partner and i are starting a family next year which is super exciting.

At the moment we are weighing up the cost of IUI/IVF and success rates?

I would be interested to hear your stories/ experiences and if you think it's worth going straight to IVF and skipping IUI?

Thanks!

R x

We skipped IUI and went straight to IVF. Given a 5-10% chance with IUI and a 15-20% chance with IVF (plus this increases with subsequent IVF cycles), the difference in cost was not enough to make IUI worth attempting for us. IVF worked on second cycle 😊
Good luck!

@CritterTamer

Thanks for your insight!
Yes, it seems IUI could work out more expensive.

It's all so consuming and so many options to consider!

Yes there's a lot of information to take in. It helped a bit that our clinic offered a very good price for a 3 cycle package of IVF - the third cycle was almost free if we paid in advance so for us paying almost £2k per IUI cycle would simply have meant we had no money left for IVF, and those 3 cycles gave us something like a 40% success chance overall as opposed to 5-10% so in the end we really didn't think about it for very long and just opted to get cracking with IVF. Very glad we did now as currently 13 weeks pregnant with twins after our second round 😊

I think it depends on what your 'issue is'. Blocked tubes? Straight to ivf. Don't ovulate? Consider iui.

Without the full story of why you're using art, it's not terribly responsible of us to advise.

In many cases ivf works out as less expensive. But it's not an easy process. At all. I can't say I'd use it (again) as anything but a last resort...

You should put this in the infertility section and you'll get a lot more replies

@physicskate no problem. I'm married to a woman.