Stopping at Egg Collection but paying for the whole thing!?

[LisaBeatrix1980]

Hi, strange question during what seems to be such a cruddy time for everyone going through or trying to start treatment at the moment. I have been told my treatment plan will now be postponed after egg collection (hoping i get to that stage ok), I start stim today, and I am at a private clinic. I am due to pay for the process this week, obviously quite a lot of money, but I was assuming as I am now stopping at collection I would only pay for treatment up to that point.

I checked with the clinic and they are still asking I pay for the full IVF cycle, which feels a little odd to me, like I am paying for a holiday and I have no idea when it will be. Paying for treament I am not having and they are unable to give me any idea of if/when fertlisation, and embryo transfer might even happen just feels a little wrong. Especially when the process is already very emotional, and then the journey is put on hold.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Thank you x

[Cinderella5]

Do they not plan on fertilising your eggs on egg collection day then freezing your embryos at day 5 to transfer at a later date once this crisis is over? Its not quite the same situation as you being cancelled but my lining wasnt thick enough to transfer when we did a private cycle but we still had to pay the whole lot and go back and transfer at a later date without charge. It is a highly emotional time to have your transfer swiped away so I completely understand why you are upset, I was devastated.xx

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Hi, my clinic gave me similar messaging. They said I could start a cycle but we have to pay on our first scan (which is normally about day 7/8 of stims). We pay the whole whack. They said we had to pay and then its our risk in terms of what happens next.

My issue is I have only got to day 5 (which is the day my clinic freeze) once out of 4 cycles, so I risk losing any eggs collected if we don't get many/don't get to day 5.. when I spoke to the Clinic about this they said basically it was up to me whether I wanted to take the risk or not

We decided not to start the round, but you may be different and my have loads of good quality embryos xx

[NS8179]

Do you not get a partial refund if your cycle is then terminated at some point before completion? May be worth asking them this.

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Hi, Our situations sound so similar. Doing this solo and got similar news yesterday that they recommend not doing transfer at this time due to everything going on.

Im in Australia though and my clinic has said that they will fertilise and watch for the 5 days, then freeze any embryos that are looking good at day 5. It’s pretty frustrating as I considered just collecting and freezing eggs however my Dr advised there was a better chance using fresh eggs so I decided to get a donor and go for it. Since that decision I’ve had a few hurdles to get to this point so it’s a bit of a disappointment.

I’ve already paid in full as well, I forgot to ask however I assume that when it happens the transfer will still be included in what I’ve already paid but I will need to pay storage fees in the meantime.

Xx