Hi Leslie and all the girls out there, Thanks for your advice - it helped me pluck up the courage to ring the clinic today and I managed to find out that I am having a "long protocol" and was given a run down of what to expect over the next 6 weeks. I was relieved to find out that I'll be taking a n...

Dear L&C Thanks for your reply - things are starting to look a little clearer. Have I got this right then - if I start on day 21 of my February cycle then it will be March before the egg transfer etc happens? And by Lupron shots you mean I have to inject myself as I am rather squeamish? Cheers, Bonn...

I am due to start my first cycle of IVF in Feb at the ARGC due to unexplained infertility. I have to go in on day 1-2 of that cycle for an initial blood test and apparently the results of this will dictate whether I start on day 3 or day 21. What exactly will I start and why day 3 or 21? I want to k...

Hello there, I have an NK blood test done 3 times now and the first time was around £800 done at the ARGC in London. Subsequent tests came down in price. They took 17 phials of blood and it took around a month to get the results back from Chicago. My understanding is that this is not a practice that...