Create IVF/ICSI - One mild IVF cycle Vs Three Cycle embryo banking. Pros and Cons?

[Cuppppatea]

Hi Everyone I hope you are ok,

I have spoken with Create fertility one cycle is £6265 and a three cycle is about £18k - (so saving 795) To me that price is eye wateringly expensive?

Question: Is the benefit of doing the three cycle just time? I am concerned that my embryo/blastocyst rate is poor - so what do they do in that circumstance where they may not be good enough to freeze while on a banking cycle?

How do they do your treatment scan based on a follicle count ? That is madness to me. I have around 10 follicles and 6 responded last time but only 4 contained eggs.

Do Create fertility let you buy your own medicine? I gather its 15k without medication? Im sure you can source cheeper.

Any answers hugely appreciated as always <3

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi. Anyone feplying mentioning clinics by name, please do so ny PM to prevent advertising. Thanks. Diane

[MiniMe23]

Hi they are fairly expensive. I found that too. But they can do you a private prescription to source your own medication if you choose to. For me the most expensive were the gonal f injection pens. Which ranged from £450-950.

Good luck with whoever you decide to go with x

[Cuppppatea in reply to MiniMe23]

Oh thanks - good to know. Have you used them ? How do they do your treatment scan based on a follicle count x

[MiniMe23]

Yes I’m with them. Initial consultation followed by stims and scans every second day followed by bloods done in the morning. They track your follicles on a growth chart each visit. And do allow you to go slightly over if there’s a decent sized one just below the correct percentile.

After each failed transfer Iv had long phone consultations as well as face to face where different things have been tweaked or nee medication introduced. They use stork pharmacy for meds and they have always been great. But I ran out of lubion the other day and when I asked yet again they offered me a private script from their on site supply or asked if I’d like one done to source my own. X

[Zassa]

Wow that was expensive, when I heard about natural IVF I was told they were cheaper than regular. These do not seem cheaper. Have you considered going abroad for one treatment?

[Cuppppatea in reply to Zassa]

Is this something you have done ? I did consider it but don’t know where to start with the research, plus I don’t know if missing work and not getting paid balances it out or not x

[Daughterofaking]

Hi, I used create for my first IVF which was successful in 2020. If I can remember, I think it totalled about same amount. £6000 plus. I later did frozen transfer with th3m which costed over 3k. I did not see it coming. Though that transfer did nog work out. That was expensive but over all the clinic is alright but there are some expenses that I was not informed of during mu frozen transfer. Bug with the first IVF I did everything was inclusive.

J wish you all th3 best in your decision xx

[alma88]

Hi, check with them but most likely is without medication.I had my fertility check done at CRGW and their cost for IVF with ICSI was 4000£ but dr. told me realistically to expect around 7k£ per cycle with medication , so I’ve decided to try abroad, currently in Prague today had my fresh embryo transfer, I have a spreadsheet with all costs blood tests,procedure, fuel,parking, flights and two weeks accomodation and I’ve spent 4927£, bonus had 2weeks break from rain😊.

[Cuppppatea in reply to alma88]

NICE! I wouldnt know where to start researching this! Any tips? Good luck with your transfer! x

[alma88]

I done some research online and there’s quite a few good clinics in Prague if you email them they have english speaking coordinators which can provide more details, majority of staff at clinics speaks english so is easy to communicate, in our case we’ve searched a clinic which offers microfluidic sperm selection as part of package to improve our chances(low sperm count) .We both went there for 1st visit and tests(it was a2 days visit to get familiarised 3 months before actually starting procedure due to me being not able to book days off) I loved the city so decided to do all scans there,went from day 5 ( I think min stay is a week if you do scans in UK) clinics usually offer hotel discounts too but 2nd visit I decided to rent an airbnb studio flat and this place is exactly what I needed, felt safe for the first week I’ve been here alone till my husband came before egg retrieval).Unica, Gennet,Gynem, Ivf Cube few of the clinics, if you have time can look up for reviews etc. also their first consultation online is usually free with a consultant so worth at least getting more details x