IVF Abroad - Reccommendations?

[Lily35]

Hi - we are looking at doing IVF abroad after a failed cycle in the U.K. Does anyone have any recommendations for clinics? And how it all works?
I felt pretty daunted at the thought but now having read up on it, it looks simple and these clinics arrange everything for you.

Hi @OnePusOne, the karyotyping and thrombophilia profile came through all normal. As grateful as I am about that, still leaves me a bit frustrated as to why it's not happening naturally. Just the way it goes I suppose. The last nhs consultant I saw just told me "it's the elephant in the room - your age". Nice! Anyone would think I was 109 not 39.
Anyway, not had that attitude from the clinic I'm at now.
What fertility tests have you had done? Are you considering going abroad too? The success rates with donor eggs seem very good from what I understand.

@OnePusOne it is good to see single moms-to-be here, sorry about not being qualified for NHS though. What do you plan to do?

@SharnaMH sorry for the delayed response, but I am wondering how you are now?

@maeve88Troy hi I am ok thank you. Came back from Prague Tuesday after a visit to the clinic. Gynem clinic are so lovely. They helped us understand everything a we didn’t feel we were asking anything stupid which is a totally different experience to the UK. In the UK we felt that everything was on the clinic terms and every single breath we took seemed to cost us money. Gynem totally different they would even take a deposit until we were totally comfortable and sure we had all our questions answered. We even asked to pay more than the deposit and they said no need to as it can be done in stages. Was so refreshing as we felt they really wanted to help us. They included a few additional tests why I was there too which was good at no additional cost. I came away with some Med’s to stay on my Jan cycle and then we will travel over for the full 2 weeks to do everything with them. Really pleased with who we chose and scared but excited to start in the new year.

How are you getting on, are things going well for you xx

@OnePusOne as you need double donor you may find information about embryo adoption on the donor parenting section, or other useful info

@Dia12 glad you got your tests back with no surprises, I'm 39 too and have recently had egg collection, hopefully going for another in January

@SharnaMH glad your visit went so well and that you feel reassured enough to be starting soon

Thank you @JeNeBaguetteRien. Are you egg harvesting? I'm still thinking of doing that, depends how it goes at with this cycle I suppose.
How much time did you take in between cycles?

Yes @Dia12
If I'd wanted to and been able to stay near my clinic for monitoring I could have re-started stims 2 days after egg collection but it wasn't possible due to work and to be honest I was glad of the respite from hormones.
I used testosterone gel prescribed by the clinic for the cycle before my stims started and decided to do the same again when I got my period after the egg collection so we were pretty much replicating the cycle.

I have low AMH and have never been a great responder, my first ever cycle was cancelled before egg collection.
The egg harvesting will hopefully hopefully give me a few embryos, don't know if I'm capace of making a blastocyst as UK clinic policy was to transfer at day 2 if not many embryos available. So who knows how this will go but I'll give it a go!

@JeNeBaguetteRien You are right dear, the clinic I contacted is Dunya IVF, way over in North Cyprus. They did suggest an embryo donation. Cycling with them now. Will probably visit them this January.

@Dia12 that is one naughty NHS consultant - she or he should not be there at all! I thought people in that position ought to be more sensitive. I had everything dear - the blood works, the hormone tests, the US.

@Maeve88Troy going to Dunya in January

@OnePusOne glad to hear that, was there in June. Will that be your first time in Cyprus? When you go - is it straight to transfer or just consulting first?

@SharnaMH I'm happy to hear you are doing well and like the clinic you chose. Good luck in January and lots of baby dust to you! I'm doing very well right now, well the first trimester was terrible. Had a little light bleeding which was scary but everything okay now. I'm 25w1d and counting everyday until we finally have baby in our arms :)