Meeting at Sydney IVF - Tuesday 6th October 2009

Today we had our fisrt meeting with Sydney IVF. Upon meeting the nurse, i already had a good feeling about this. By that point, i had known that i had made the right decision to follow through with the IVF using Sydney IVF, despite them being much more pricier than the rest.

DH had to come with me (its their standard procedure to have him at the initial visit) and we had no option but to take DS in aswell. At the point of making the appointment, i didnt realise it would fall on the first Tuesday of school holidays!! Nonetheless he behaved like a perfect little angel, and his nintendo ds kept him entertained for the hour and a half we were there!

The nurse went through all the nitty gritty details of costs etc. and then we were down to business! Because Dr. Lok had prescribed me the pill from my last appointment i had with him (4 weeks prior to this appointment), i was ready to start the treatment ASAP! DH was also excited that we could start right away instead of waiting around for the few extra weeks to get my cycle into gear etc.

The first set of drugs which i have to begin taking is called LUCRIN.

Lucrin is a hormone which suppresses the release of Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland. This prevents spontaneousovulation (ie release of the ripe eggs from the ova
ry) before ovum pick-up (OPU). It needs to be administered as a given as a subcutaneous injection!! Yes thats right!! an injection!! It is given around the same time, daily, for a couple of weeks.

Anyways, here are the goods....$245 worth to be precise!