Welcome to Everybody Who is Looking for IVF Cost Information

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:59 +0000

Welcome to ivfcost.net. This site was born out of my husband and I being told that we have “unexplained” infertility after 10 years of trying! With finances being tight, and me being 43 and hence not eligible for IVF on the NHS, we were unable to just select the most convenient IVF clinic and pay the price. So we decided to look across the world to see where the best place was that offered good IVF success rates and low IVF cost!

What a job! If you have been trying then you’ve probably struggled as much as we have! So I decided that as I gather information I will share it with others, like yourself.

The first thing I did was try to get an overview of the IVF cost across the globe. The results of this can be found here.

After this I found the contact details for as many IVF clinics as I could and I am in the process of sending them an email (which can be seen here) requesting the IVF cost, IVF success rate and information on the IVF process. I am posting the responses as I get them on this site and have tagged them with the country name. To date I have responses on:

IVF Cost in Argentina

IVF Cost in Australia

IVF Cost in Costa Rica

IVF Cost in Czech Republic

IVF Cost in Denmark

IVF Cost in Georgia

IVF Cost in Greece

IVF Cost in Hong Kong

IVF Cost in the Slovak Republic

IVF Cost in Slovenia

IVF Cost in South Africa

IVF Cost in Spain

IVF Cost in Sweden

IVF Cost in Switzerland

IVF Cost in United Arab Emirates

I have also tagged the responses that I found particularly useful and put them in the tag My IVF Shortlist.

When we started this journey I must admit that it was all very overwhelming. We knew very little about what our options were and what to expect. We scoured the book stores for something that would help us get to grips with the jargon and understand what our test results really meant. The one book that stands out above the others is What to Do When You Can’t Get Pregnant: The Complete Guide to All the Technologies for Couples Facing Fertility Problems by Daniel A Potter and Jennifer S Hanin. This has been our bible to knowing what is going on, what questions to ask and how to make good decisions – we can highly recommend it.

I hope that the information on this site is useful to you. If you have experience with any of the clinics please do leave a comment so that others can benefit from it too.

Sue

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IVF Cost at ISCARE, Slovak Republic

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:24:20 +0000

After having had IVF treatment at ISCARE in the Slovak Republic, a reader has very kindly compiled the cost information and given an account of their experience at the clinic to share with you.

The web address for the clinic in English is http://www.iscare.sk/?lang=en

ISCARE IVF Costs:

Basic IVF cycle:
1. Egg collection with embryo transfer – 995.8 euros
2. Stop cycle – 166 euros

IVF cycle with soft stimulation
1. Collection and embryo transfer – 763.5 euros
2. Stop cycle before egg collection – 50 euros

IUI
1. Married couple – 50 euros
2. Donor – 150 euros

Cycle monitoring with preparation – 100 euros
Protocol of stimulation – 116 euros

ICSI 1-3 collected occytes – 216 euros
ICSI 4 and more oocytes – 450 euros
AZH – 183 euros
Extended cultivation of embryo - 100 euros

Cryopreservation

Embryo freezing – up to 1 year – 150 euros

Embryo freezing – additional year – 66 euros
KET – 150 euros
Sperm freezing up to 1 year – 50 euros
Sperm freezing – additional year 33 euros

MESA, TESE – 970 euros
Spermcount – 9 euros
IVM – 135 euros

PiGD 1-3 embryos – 880 euros
PiGD 4-6 embryos – 1200 euros
PiGD every other embryo (above 6) – 83 euros

Readers First Hand Experience with ISCARE

Medicine I used: Gonal, Cetrotide, Pregnyl, Utrogestan, Estrofem
Unfortunately I do not recall full price of medicine as I had it partialy covered by insurance:
I payed for Gonal and Cetrotide – 330 euros
Utrogestan 14 euros

In general I was quite happy with the clinic and my doc (Dr. Lubica Petrova). She was very helpful and always answered all my questions.
Clinic is situated in nice villas neighborhood, near down town (15 mins walk). It is nothing fancy, but good standards. Rooms have 2 beds, 2 rooms are sharing 1 bathroom.
Staff was friendly in general (except from 1 scrub nurse-very unpleasant grumpy person), they speak various languages – English, Italian, German, Hungarian, French), we communicated easily.
My only unpleasant experience was before collection when I lied down on the table in operating room, put my feet up in the stirrups and have my private parts exposed for few minutes before anesthesia hit me. There was no preservation of patients decency at any stage. I was wearing long t-shirt style pyjama (you have to bring it yourself). Staff was walking around, male nurses as well, and I felt very uneasy about it.
After oocyte collection I stayed in bed for few more hours.
They collected 7 oocytes (i m 37 years old), 5 were mature and 2 got fertilized and 3 days later transferred.
Transfer wasn’t so unpleasant – maybe because the nursing team was more friendly and females only. My doctor did both collection and transfer herself.
After transfer I got my first the ultrasound picture and they moved me to bed where I stayed few more hours. I received 1 shot of pregnyl immediately after the transfer and was told to drink 4 l of liquids for 2 weeks to avoid hyper stimulation syndrome.
on day 15 i did my HCG blood test, unfortunately it was negative.

Although the person requested anonimity in this posting I am sure if you have any questions she would be happy to help – just post them here or contact me through the “contact us” button at the top of the page and I will forward them to her. I would like to express my gratitude to her for sharing this information, and if there is anybody else who would be happy to share their experiences in this way I will be more than happy to publish them on the site.

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