How much have you spent on IVF?

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

£58k.

No holiday for 16 years.

We each worked 72 hours p/w.

Remortgaged.

Stopped paying into pension.

Family helped (those who had empathy & understanding)

Hell Fire! Reading this I cannot believe how much it costs. If I had spent so much money on IVF and it hadn't worked I would be a very very bitter person. Thousands of pounds worth of debt, and still no child. Every couple should get the same amount of NHS treatments in every part of the UK, especially given that unless you have Ovulation problems, the road always seems to lead to bloody IVF as the one and only. I do however think that people who are lucky enough to already have a child, should have to pay. I have not got to IVF yet but fully expect to be told I will need to, as it seems the most common scenario, in which case I will get offered one cycle (wakefield) and then cant afford any mor. Despit paying the same tax and NI as other areas who get 3.

Funnily enough Fuzz, at the time I always maintained funding should be based on tax paid.

Every time, without fail & without exception, my meeting of the NHS qualification goalposts got moved.

Christ, we're waiting for NHS Ivf but if what we're offered doesn't work that's it, we can't afford anything like what some people have paid :(

£27k

For that we have had 2 fresh cycles in uk both had none left to freeze - around £11-12k

I fresh cycle abroad plus 2 fet from cycle 3

2 era - basically a test dummy run to check lining and hormones and tests showed I needed an extra day of progynova. Actually ended up having an extra week as was on holiday at the time with no 5

Freezing costs. Have 3 left frozen abroad

Flights at Xmas /new year were silly money at THink £800 for df and I - need start ivf in oct if abroad as works out end of Dec ec. And beg Jan et and stupid money for flights !!!

Other flights. Think have been to Madrid 7 times for ec/et - era - fet x2 - cirvicsl dilation and 1st chat

All bloods and sperm testing at first chat abroad

Hotels £34pn 😃 - taxi's to /from airport /clinic abroad

Plus 2 cervical dilation - abroad. Think was £300 + flights of 130 for df and I - if had in uk was quoted £3.5k !!! For same op !!!

Basically anything do to with ivf

We saved for 1&2. Had a break for a year to lick our wounds. Reaearch abroad - save - get loans. Put on credit card etc

What is awful is a cycle /fet failing yet still have to pay the loan :(

But all worth it as

No 5 hit the jackpot and currently 24w preg with first child and first preg in 10yrs of ttc

Over £30K on 3 full ICSI cycles including one where I stimmed for 30 days (the cost of the meds that time was eye watering and if I'd been in a better frame of mind I'd have said stop to the complete charlatan of a Dr.) All my treatments were abroad as we were living overseas at the time and in places where it's not legal to freeze embryos so no opportunity for FET. Eventually we had to stop for financial reasons. Also had 3 failed foreign adoptions (rejected for nationality and religion). Have now moved back to the UK, where we are not allowed to apply for adoption for another 5 years (til my husband has his citizenship) so we remain childless but surprisingly (certainly to the me of a few years ago) we have come to terms with it. Take heart for those going through this at the moment whatever the outcome there is peace eventually.

Balloon dog. That sucks 💐💐💐💐💐

How do I find out how many "goes" do I have on NHS? Does this depend on area ?

Wow prices have gone up. My kids are 9 now but we spent £20k on 4 cycles of icsi including immunological testing and treatment for the 4 th one which was successful.
No NHS as they didn't cover icsi then.
Our medical insurance paid for testing, but obviously not for treatment, bit it did save us a few hundred pounds.

Margasid yes or depends on area. Also it can be a long wait for NHS treatment.

£40k for 6 cycles, 3 in the UK, 3 abroad. Now pregnant.

If we have to go for surrogacy because I keep miscarrying chromosomally normal embryos, for gestational surrogacy in the US we are looking at about £100,000 on top of the £30,000 or so we have spent already

We don't have a baby to show for our money (just two miscarriages) but do have 5 chromosomally normal embryos on ice

If we hadn't done PGS we'd have used our previous batch of 4 frozen embryos - which were all abnormal. So saved ourselves 4 failed cycles by testing.

All clinics vary and depends what you get for your money. Some now offer the genetic testing - gps- icsi - time lapse photography - assisted hatching - scratch embryo glue etc

With none of these a cycle could be £5k but add them and can be £7/8+

When desperate for a baby you wil do anything if the clinic suggests it ......

Tho according to the panaroma prog the other week , some clinics think the above are mostly a waste of money ......

This is a useful and balanced article from the chair of the British Fertility Society on the topics covered in the panorama programme www.adambalen.com/ivf-practices-challenged-2/

Banana - I can't believe it's £100k for surrogacy. I hope your next cycle works.

About £40k so far......

I actually haven't properly added it all up and it would make me feel sick to add it properly, but about £9000 per cycle (4 private & 1 NHS), plus all the extras-blood tests, immune tests, endometrial scratch, appointments for 2nd/3rd opinions at clinics we didn't have treatment with etc etc. If you add in all the money spent on vitamins and all the money lost by taking unpaid leave from work and then going part time to cope with the aftermath of this shite is several £1000s more.

By the way, sorry everyone for ranting on several threads tonight. It was actually quite therapeutic but I apologise for being rather self indulgent

10k. That was in 2014 for 2 cycles with icsi including drugs and embryoscope. I thought that was eye wateringly expensive at the time (but I see from this thread I have nothing to whinge about) and would have gone to the Czech Republic for our next round. Is that an option for you?

£6000 in 2014 (in Surrey) for a fresh "plain vanilla" IVF cycle. We ended up with DD and 11 frozen embryos so it was really a bargain. I didn't need too much stimming which I think helped keep the cost down. We didn't want to wait another year to get it on the NHS and we had the money in savings.
This year we have spent £1200 each on two FET cycles and we are managing - just - to pay for it outright as we save about £400 a month and you can squeeze in a long-protocol FET every 3 or 4 months. About to embark on another.

I had an interesting chat with the nurse today while picking up my drugs - we were talking about the Panorama programme. She said that the head of our clinic does a lot of work with / for the HFEA and is very evidence-driven, which is why they do not offer a lot of the 'extras' that london clinics do. They do endo scratch and i think have an embryoscope (well, I know we've seen all of our embryos on the TV screen!) but that is it. I think that must be why our costs are lower than many on here; however if you have immune issues or other complexities I guess you end up having to go elsewhere for that.