How much have you spent on IVF?

[Bibs2014]

We have only had one cycle which cost £10k.

One cycle was approx £6k

My fairly simple cycle at Argc (no expensive immunes) was £15k. Dread to think what the acupuncture, supplements and hundreds of pregnancy and ovulation kits add up to! Then had a natural pregnancy monitoring with Argc with immunes and that was £5k until 12 weeks

About £25k in total. That covers 2 cycles and a FET. Also a hysteroscopy before I started. None of it worked, currently considering how much more money/time/emotion I want to spend on this.

£13-15k? Includes a lap and ovary drilling (4K), IVF cycle (freeze all 6k) and an FET 2k. Also a year of private consultation, 8 months of clomid and private scans.

About £30,000 or so?

3 fresh cycles (including one with PGS), 1 FET, many many blood tests and investigations and many additional meds and procedures

BUPA covered my two hysteroscopies

Two pregnancies, 2 miscarriages and 5 more chromosomally normal embryos on ice to show for that

Thanks. Considering if we should pay for another cycle if my FET in the new year doesn't work. But it's another 10K and we really aren't the type of people with that much cash to spare. How did you pay for yours, have you got into debt or did you save save save? I feel so lost at the moment and need direction.

£8,000 for one fresh round and 2 x FET.
It's only that low because we chose to go abroad to the Czech Republic where treatment is a lot cheaper.
The total cost includes flights, accommodation, drugs and spending money.

It's really eye opening the differences in prices people have given, mine seems to be by far the least expensive. Is there anyway you can find it cheaper at a different clinic? We didn't get into debt for ours we were very lucky in that we had the money already as an over-payment we had made on our mortgage, i suppose the only cost being the additional interest we will now pay.

I paid £13k for a 3 cycle package including FETs but drugs and certain add-ins were on top, which probably brings the total to about £20k in all for 2 cycles, including scans before starting treatment, supplements and acupuncture etc.

10k for one cycle, including ICSI, embryoscope, surgical sperm retrieval, a shit load of extra drugs as I stimmed for a ridiculous amount of time and embryo storage.

We funded it using a savings plan that I'd been paying £100 a months into since I started work and happened to mature at the right time.

We were extremely lucky that it worked first time round, we'd have remortgaged to go again (and likely gone abroad).

I was surprised at how much it cost, as I'd always heard the 3-4K a cycle thing.

My cycles were broadly as follows

Cycle 1
IVF + blast culture £5000
Meds (high stims) £2000

Cycle 2
IVF + blast culture £5000
Meds (high stims) £2000
Embryo freezing £1000

Cycle 3
IVF £4500
PGS £3500
Meds (low stims) £1000

FET
FET £1500
Meds (including extras like viagra, Neupogen washes, intralipids, clexane) £2000

Plus thousands and thousands on the likes of
Hormonal blood tests across 18 months of treatment
Additional scans in between cycles
Elective sperm freeze
Level 1 and 2 immunes blood tests

Diagnostics like HyCoSy, saline ultrasound etc

BUPA covered the hysteroscopies and my consultant has used his discretion and not charged me for cycle scans during my 3 cancelled cycles

A cycle at my clinic costs £4,700. But once you factor in HSG, semen analysis, blood tests, the scratch, embryo glue, embryoscope, the meds (I had to stim for an extra week which added £700 to the original £1k already paid), consultations... plus acupuncture in ended up as £9k.

I think if we were to go again we would have to take money out against the house. We prob have a couple of grand of overpayments we can draw down.

20k on 3 cycles and immune testing.

About to go again on our 4th & final cycle with immune drugs.

One fresh cycle 8k.
We were lucky to be able to pay for it outright using savings.

Oh meant to say, we put £2k towards IVF per month. We go without holidays etc but for now it's what we need to do. We will have one more cycle then if that still doesn't work we will give donor eggs one try.., then if still nothing we will try and make peace with it..

Bibs - I paid for all of my treatment out of savings, and prioritising IVF spending. By the time we did a (so far successful) FET I was utterly cleared out, but since then have been saving again. We are lucky to be comparatively wealthy, however I did make choices re spending - holidays in Wales (fuckin love em), don't tend to buy clothes, rarely go out etc. I think some clinics offer a finance package. But fuck me that must be galling to have to continue to pay off if it doesn't work.

£400m spent per year by NHS on IVF. £4.2bn (1000 times more) spent on the obese. Can't be fucking right!!

I have maybe what is stupid question : why couldn't you do it on NHS? We have been offered NHS ivf like its antibiotics. Doctor didn't even want to look at my husband(azospermia). I'm healthy but they told us I need to go through all ivf procedures and only then they will call my husband to do biopsy. Shouldn't they diagnose my husband first?

Margasid but haven't they already diagnosed your husband with azoospermia? Isn't IVF therefore the best route to conception? If doing more tests etc wouldn't change that then that might just delay things for no good reason.

In response to the NHS, each area has its own criteria so many people will find that they don't qualify and need to go down the private route. If one partner already has a child, that will rule out a lot of couples. Also many couples will go private after their NHS cycle(s). In my case, I was only offered 1 NHS cycle. It didn't work.

We had one round on the NHS and thankfully conceived our DS. This is for a sibling.

They have done sperm test that show there is nothing there. I would think they would want to determine why there is nothing there. We have been told that if I go through all ivf procedures only then they will do biopsy to determine if there is sperm. I would think it is better to check first if there is anything to work with before you will let me got through not so easy process just to tell me in the end that there is no sperm.

I really appreciate your advise as we are new to all this.

Bibs2014 congratulations!

Margasid I see what you mean. In that case a referral to a urologist (or is it andrologist?) would seem sensible before IVF to check that there is sperm somewhere (e.g. surgical sperm retrieval from testes or bladder). I don't think they try to find the why though.

I was one day to old in this area when I was referred to the fertility unit. No nhs for us. But £10k later (2 cycles of isci and get with donor egg) we are a mummy and daddy to a gorgeous 22 month old little boy!

I'm too old and too fat for NHS ivf.

£10,000 for our DD's cycle, which was reciprocal partner to partner fresh IVF, including donor sperm, blastocyst culture and storage of extra embryos.

£1000 for 3 years of storage of embryos and sperm

This year:
£800 on Natural IUI (BFP then mc)
£6,000 fresh IVF
£1,500 frozen cycle
£1,500 frozen cycle - BFP!

Really, really hope that is now it.

I did four natural/mild rounds. I've never totted it up but reckon it cost 15-20k. I had iui (2 rounds) before that, plus acupuncture and various tests. I dread to think how much it cost in total.