Second opinions
Well, the training hospital visit was ok. We ran into a girl entering the clinic that must have been a resident. She totally reminded me of "Barbie" on Scrubs! It was hilarious!
After waiting 20 minutes to see the doctor, the rest of the visit wasn't too bad. She seemed quite nice, and more approachable than my other doctor. Her suggestions were to either do another IVF using a different protocol to see if that works, or have a laparoscopy to check for endometriosis.
My fear of anesthesia and surgeries has me a bit concerned about the laparoscopy, but I will sleep on it awhile and see if I want to proceed with the exploratory surgery or try an IVF cycle where they suppress the luteal phase instead.
Unfortunately we're going through a new insurance carrier at work, and amazingly the insurance is even worse than before! We're going to save $20 a month on payments, but all other co-payments, office visits and service fees are going up, and, of course, no infertility coverage. (one plan offered a $2000 lifetime max towards infertility, but did not cover IVF) In the plan we ended up going with, the surgery should be covered, but the cost will go up $300/day after January first. I'm definitely not ready to go into surgery next week, as I have to take 2 weeks off to recover, so we'll see.
I still have my moments where I just don't want to do anything at all and instead think about jut giving up completely. But I have the feeling part of it has to do with everything else that is going on in my life. So I'll wait and see what next year brings, and hope that I will be able to select a path I can be happy with.
After waiting 20 minutes to see the doctor, the rest of the visit wasn't too bad. She seemed quite nice, and more approachable than my other doctor. Her suggestions were to either do another IVF using a different protocol to see if that works, or have a laparoscopy to check for endometriosis.
My fear of anesthesia and surgeries has me a bit concerned about the laparoscopy, but I will sleep on it awhile and see if I want to proceed with the exploratory surgery or try an IVF cycle where they suppress the luteal phase instead.
Unfortunately we're going through a new insurance carrier at work, and amazingly the insurance is even worse than before! We're going to save $20 a month on payments, but all other co-payments, office visits and service fees are going up, and, of course, no infertility coverage. (one plan offered a $2000 lifetime max towards infertility, but did not cover IVF) In the plan we ended up going with, the surgery should be covered, but the cost will go up $300/day after January first. I'm definitely not ready to go into surgery next week, as I have to take 2 weeks off to recover, so we'll see.
I still have my moments where I just don't want to do anything at all and instead think about jut giving up completely. But I have the feeling part of it has to do with everything else that is going on in my life. So I'll wait and see what next year brings, and hope that I will be able to select a path I can be happy with.
posted by Susan at 8:19 PM
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Hang in there sweetie! Sometimes those bad thoughts creep into my head too, but then I think of what can be. Have a Merry Christmas and try to just enjoy the holidays. :-)
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