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Time for a new fertility doctor?
We have been working with the same fertility doctor at Boston IVF for 2 years and have had a really bad experience. Here are a few of our complaints:
Because my wife is 27 every time we try something new they are extremely conservative. It took 8 months for them to determine Clomid wasn’t cutting it
They send us drugs with no explanation of what they are for or how and when we should be using them. They will just show up at our door and we end up calling to ask what they are for.
They don’t send us drugs when we need them. We always call before an appointment to make sure that we are doing what we need to do in advance and twice we didn’t have the drugs we were supposed to be taking and had to make an emergency rush to the pharmacist.
They don’t explain to us what each appointment is for. They will automatically schedule an appointment for us and then when they ask what it is for they say someone else was, or is going to explain it to us.
They have no idea who we are. Every time we meet with the doctor it’s like we’ve never met before, he has to look over our history, during the appointment, and then tells us things we already know. The appointments are rarely informative.
We switched insurance companies and gave them over a month’s notice to get things together, which they assured us they would. Then when we called on the first day of my wife’s period they said they couldn’t do IUI that month because they need to get the paper work together for the new insurance company. This set us back 2 additional months.
And worst of all, when we ask them questions they always either tell us to ask someone else, or act like we are stupid or annoying for asking.
After two years we have done 2 IUIs and an IVF, does this seem slow to others, because it seems like we should have been this far along in the process a year ago.
The question is, are these issues common to fertility centers, or is the one we are working with particularly bad?
Because my wife is 27 every time we try something new they are extremely conservative. It took 8 months for them to determine Clomid wasn’t cutting it
They send us drugs with no explanation of what they are for or how and when we should be using them. They will just show up at our door and we end up calling to ask what they are for.
They don’t send us drugs when we need them. We always call before an appointment to make sure that we are doing what we need to do in advance and twice we didn’t have the drugs we were supposed to be taking and had to make an emergency rush to the pharmacist.
They don’t explain to us what each appointment is for. They will automatically schedule an appointment for us and then when they ask what it is for they say someone else was, or is going to explain it to us.
They have no idea who we are. Every time we meet with the doctor it’s like we’ve never met before, he has to look over our history, during the appointment, and then tells us things we already know. The appointments are rarely informative.
We switched insurance companies and gave them over a month’s notice to get things together, which they assured us they would. Then when we called on the first day of my wife’s period they said they couldn’t do IUI that month because they need to get the paper work together for the new insurance company. This set us back 2 additional months.
And worst of all, when we ask them questions they always either tell us to ask someone else, or act like we are stupid or annoying for asking.
After two years we have done 2 IUIs and an IVF, does this seem slow to others, because it seems like we should have been this far along in the process a year ago.
The question is, are these issues common to fertility centers, or is the one we are working with particularly bad?
I've use Dr Hornstein at Brigham & Womens. He's excellent and his team is excellent. He's pretty cut and dry, no bull. My friend recommend him to me and we both had great success.
Good luck
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Good luck
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I see the doctors from the Fertility Centers of New England and they have been AMAZING, and although I see them in Bedford, New Hampshire their main office is in Reading, Ma. They have been voted by their peers to be in the top 5% of doctors specializing in Reproductive Medicine, one of the doctors is also one of the leading experts in recurrent pregnancy loss. They seem to be on the cutting edge of embryo technology and can't think of one negitive thing I have experienced. I would reccomend googling the name and giving them a call, when I called I had an appointment with the doctor the following week...... If you have any questions please let me know, I'll be happy to answer them- good luck!
Hi, I am sorry to hear of your frustrations with BostonIVF. I am a BIVF patient too and share some of your frustrations, but certainly not as many. Grant it, I am 42 and in the past 14 months, I have done 6 IVF cycles. So, your schedule does seem to be a bit slow. I do like my doctor there, even though I very rarely meet with him, we do talk on the phone, but I mainly deal with the nurses. I'm not sure what others experience, but I have learned that you really need to triple check everything. I have become super pro-active in making sure my cycles are all set with BIVF from calling the finance contact to speaking with the nurses to make sure my meds are all set and what the schedule is. I don't really care if I'm a pain in the butt to them or not. I'm sure everyone's experience is different and we all have different situations, with only one common goal, that we all want a baby! I do have a friend who left BIVF cause she did not care her experience and another person who did stay, as she loved the doctor, but did not like the nurses. Initially, I felt like they should be pro-active with me and make sure I am all set and understand everything, but I quickly learned that I was the one who needed to push them, unfortunately. There are several other places in Boston you can go to if you are not happy with BIVF. Good luck to you and your wife!
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