First Timers

deathbycilantro

Hey we are brand new at all this.. still in the us vs insurance war.. Curious as to what other's experience with this has been. What we are looking at money wise (monthly or whatever).

Arkmom

This depends on how agressive you want/need to be. Depending on where you live, unmedicated IUIs cost about $200-500 for the procedure plus the cost of sperm. Add a menue of options including ovulation inducers, ultra sound monitoring and HCG "trigger shots" and medicated IUI's can cost up to $3-4K per cycle, though most are not that high. IVF cost $10-20K per cycle depending on how where and who does it.

Age is a huge factor is how agressive you start out as it is strongly correlated to fertility and can be told w/o a test. This varies ALOT, but generally most doctors will start women in 20s or early 30s with unmedicted IUIs, which usually does the trick in 2-4 cycles. Women in their later thirties often start with a mild ovulation inducer such as Clomid and maybe a trigger shot. Again you are looking at 2-4 cycles to know if it is "working" or not. Doctors are all over the map with women in their fourties from try a few medicated or unmedicated IUIs and see what happens to starting with IVF to excluding them from their programs to keep their stats up.