Well, I don't know how it works up north, but here in the US the doctors seem to be all about the numbers - and by numbers, I mean their success rate. IUIs, even under ideal circumstances with injectibles, have a success rate of about 20% per IUI. IVF's success rate is much closer to 50%. It is in a doctor's best interest to move to things with higher success rates because then their clinic is, well, more successful.
My doctor has already started talking to us about "if we need to go to more high-tech options" even though we told him from the get-go that we didn't want to do that. I suppose he thinks he's just trying to prepare us, but how it gets to me is that he is going to push us in that direction prematurely. *shrug* I don't know.
We've already done 2 unsuccessful IUIs and had one cancelled cycle. We can probably do 3 tries with injectibles (as long as he doesn't say it won't work because of blocked tubes) but if we weren't successful by then, I'm about 99% sure he would say our next step is IVF. Which means at that point we'd be done.
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Date: 2006-07-09 03:36 pm (UTC)My doctor has already started talking to us about "if we need to go to more high-tech options" even though we told him from the get-go that we didn't want to do that. I suppose he thinks he's just trying to prepare us, but how it gets to me is that he is going to push us in that direction prematurely. *shrug* I don't know.
We've already done 2 unsuccessful IUIs and had one cancelled cycle. We can probably do 3 tries with injectibles (as long as he doesn't say it won't work because of blocked tubes) but if we weren't successful by then, I'm about 99% sure he would say our next step is IVF. Which means at that point we'd be done.