Being ref for IVF at Leeds, anyone care to share their Leeds experience.

[katieferg81]

After TTC since May 2013, undergoing various tests and still being none the wiser other than discovering a right hand hydrosalpinx which shouldn't really make a difference we have today been ref to Leeds for IVF.
So has anyone had IVF at Leeds and if so what was your experience? is there anything that I should be asking? what were waiting times like? And what was your timeline between first app and BFP/BFN?
To be honest I know very little about IVF as there is that much information available when I try to read through it all I just end up confused.
TIA

So for every good story you get mine. Please don't let it put you off as you can see there are a lot of positive stories.

For us we have a on-going complaint due to a rare occurrence in the lab for our 1 free NHS cycle. Stress that isn't needed in a already stressful time of your life.

As someone else said earlier I don't know if it's because your first go is NHS, but our cycle was not positive and if I was paying I would expect a significantly higher level of service. We are now going to Czech Republic for treatment as we do not wish to give our money to this clinic.

Timeline wasn't too bad - Nurse consul to starting was 2 weeks it's very fast - first consultant appointment was in July last year and treatment in Nov. We found you never saw the same nurses, doctors until our incident and then we had the professor for every appointment and head nurse.

We found it was very process driven, but also very clear, as you've said it's not the private experience so makes sense. I did feel that because it's NHS you are on a basic approach - they have said now that they would increase my meds as I would be private but NHS has a limit on what they will prescribe. Appointment times are good often in a morning so you can balance with work. I'd defiantly attend the open evening they run because this describes the process in detail.

I would say research the extra's yourself - we went with glue and not scope. At the open evening I felt they tried to push some of these with no hard evidence, but you are at least informed.

In summary for us we would not return but as you have seen there are lots more positive stories.

I'm about to start a cycle there through Yorkshire fertility. The only bits actually at seacroft for me are egg collection, incubation and transfer. All the tests, consults and protocol is through Yorkshire fertility. I self-referred at 16 months ttc. You could try them?

Hi,

Me and the OH are starting our IVF treatment. We have our nurse consultation to go through our start date and injection administration next week and I’m debating wether to do the time lapse on the embryos, can anyone advise if it’s definitely worth doing x

Really lovely team on the whole (consultants, registrars, receptionists etc ). The nurses made me feel like scum though. I went once with my husband and the nurse was really lovely. I went a second time alone and the same nurse was quite cold and impatient with me. I had a few questions on a piece of paper and she made me feel like answering them was wasting her time. Then I received a phone call from a different nurse that lunchtime explaining I needed to increase my dose of meriofert. I was unsure of how to do that even after she explained it (it involves using one and a half vials of meriofert powder and one water). I tried to explain back what she had said to me in my own words for clarity and she was very impatient and rude with me. I explained my husband accidentally broke a vial of water about a week ago, so we were short on one of those and she said “what do you mean he broke a vial?” In a short/ angry way. I don’t know how they feel it is ok to speak to women this way who are going through a difficult / emotional process. I feel really deflated and anxious, and like I can’t attend any more nurses appointments without my husband there incase they snap at me.