Thank you for your replies. We went to see our clinic today for our information / implications appointment and they suggested that General was best as it meant that I would not be wiggling around! It was a very long appointment - two and a half hours - all about injections/sniffing and complicated ...

With regard to egg collection, what would people recommend if they had the choice? A sedation or general anaesthetic?

Can anyone here recommend acupuncture - we have read Zita West and she seems to think that it would greatly aid icsi/ivf. Has anyone here had any experiences of it?

Also, can anyone recommend an acupuncturist in the Brighton area?

Thank you for your help, but we decided not to drink any of it as DF was sick!

DP was just walking past a Chinese Herbalist store today and went in. He left the place £53 worse off and now our kitchen smells absoloutely horrendous. I do not want him to drink this stuff it looks truly awful. But the mug of brown grimness is sitting next to us now on the table! Does anyone know ...

Thank you for all your replies, we are touched that so many people took the time to respond. It is comforting to know lots of other people are in the same sort of boat.

As for the question about why we are going to Woking (Kat)... We have to go private (because the NHS here do not 'do' isci), and ...

Hello, we are new to this website and the whole ivf/icsi excitement! We have been reading posts here and there, but our first consultation is coming up in the next few weeks, so the questions are building up. We have been dumped by the NHS for having appalling sperm. So, we are off to the Nuffield ...