Covid testing

[Sw1234]

Im looking to start medication for egg collection at the end of this month. Can anyone give me any idea what the process is now with covid? Do NHS hospitals ask for any covid tests before egg collection or transfer?

Also, me and my husband had covid the beginning of July, what are the guidelines for egg collection after having covid? How long do clinics like you to wait? Fortunately my husband will need semen analysis so we should know if he's been impacted before his collection sample

[butterfliez]

Hi the current guidelines are that they wait 3 months after having covid before you can have egg collection.

I am on the medication now & have been told to do covid tests prior to egg collection I am assuming on the day & if we get to transfer then on that day too. x

[Sw1234 in reply to butterfliez]

Thank you for your help. Is it just the LFT at home rather than PCR?

[butterfliez in reply to Sw1234]

Yes it will be just the lateral flow tests x

[Koala365]

I was at a private clinic which I understand does NHS work as well. I didnt have to do a COVID test but understood that if I caught COVID at any point durinf the process my cycle would be cancelled (and i would lose all the money I had spent on drugs etc so far and have to wait 3 months before I could do another cycle). What really annoyed me was the double-standards the clinic seemed to be operating. For example, there was no mask policy at the clinic so while waiting for my appointment I was often in a waiting room with loads of men who were not wearing masks (the women often seemed to wear them probably because they were in a similar position to me) and I often had to ask the nurse/doctor scanning me, taking my blood or doing my intra-lipid infusion if they would please wear a mask. I even had to ask one of the nurses in the operating theatre at egg collection if she could please wear a mask (as after all that I didnt want to risk not being able to have an embryo transfer as I caught COVID during egg collection!). And yet, they absolutely wouldnt let my OH into the room with me when I was recovering from egg collection. He had to wait in the waiting room outside for the whole time until I was ready to leave, despite being masked up himself!

[Sw1234 in reply to Koala365]

There does seem to be different reasons for different people. The nurses and consultants have been brilliant with me but you can tell it's a job to them and they don't understand the years we've been waiting for this. I had my last egg collection in September 2020. My husband had to drop off his sample and then waited in the car park tor the 2-3 hours it took. Luckily he was allowed into most of the transfers but I'm hoping for a more "normal" experience this time

[Koala365 in reply to Sw1234]

I hope you get your more normal experience this time. My clinic appears to be doing the exact opposite. My partner was allowed in with me for my egg collections in October 2020, January 2021 and April 2021 but for my egg collections in October 2021 and September 2022 he had to sit out in the waiting room (with a broken coffee machine) except when providing his sample! All very strange and contrary to what you would expect given the COVID situation at those respective times!