Does Anyone have Shared Cycle Information? (children ment.)

AMariano · 03-03-2005, 07:22 PM

Hello Does anyone know anything about Shared Cycle donation and how one could go about doing it? I had a Tubal Ligation sterilization in 1998 thinking my family was complete (bad marriage.) The marriage broke up. I remarried last year, and my new hubby has never had children of his own. He loves our three (two redheads and a very active brown-haired boy,) but would love to have a little one or ones of his own. IVF is not covered by his insurance (we live in Indiana, so there are no mandates for coverage), and we heard somewhere about Shared Cycle donation where I would donate half my eggs to another couple seeking IVF and they would pay for my IVF procedure and meds. Does anyone have experience with this to point me in the right direction? I am not a good candidate for tubal ligation reversal.

bonfire belle · 03-03-2005, 08:36 PM

Check out Cooper Center for IVF in NJ. They do the shared donor egg cycle that you are lloking for. I did a cycle last April which ended up in miscarriage. Not anything related to the pregnancy, I had a huge blood clot in my leg and was put on heparin to dissolve the clot which inadvertantly caused me to loose the baby, I was 5 weeks PG at the time. I was the recipient and my donor went on to have triplet, identical boys and a girl, we each implanted 3 embryos: me - 1 -celled and 2 - 7 celled, her - 1 -6 celled and 2 - 5 celled. I have a picture of the babies and they are adorable. We do keep in touch and make sure each of us are doing OK.
Lana

AMariano · 03-05-2005, 08:19 AM

Thank you for your response. Did your donor ever tell you how long she had to wait to donate and the approximate cost with fees? I'm turning 32 in two days, so I don't want to wait too long. If there is an extreme waiting period and the fees are close to what we have here anyway, I might as well stay close to home. We already have enough for the procedure, just not the meds and testing. There is a place in Indiana that does regular IVF cycle for $3,500 not including meds. Still, I wanted to help another woman as well. I wanted to donate eggs ever since I had my dd, but never did get a chance to.

bonfire belle · 03-05-2005, 11:57 AM

I'm not sure how much she paid, but I can tell you she paid for all her pre-monitoring workup. We started right away after all our BW and US cleared us and I had made payment. Cooper has an up to date price on their shared donor egg cycles, I paid about $6000 just to Cooper for the both of us. There were cost thatshe paid to Cooper like after transfer fees for monitoring and other little costs that you don't see. I paid for all her meds except for after transfer, when she had to pay for her own meds. My payment part ended with transfer. She also paid for all her own BW and US during the cycle, just like I had to pay for my own. We did the out of town monitoring and went to Cooper for retrieval and transfer. You can look at the Cooper site and subtract what doesn't apply to you and it should give you a ballpark figure. My donor was 32 at the beginning of our shared cycle and turned 33 prior to completion. Hope this helps.

Lana

emmaalso · 03-07-2005, 07:18 PM

Give your local clinic a call and ask them they will know. Clinics are so good about getting you in to discuss your situation and draw up alll of the options. Most if not all have internet sites where you can ask questions and someone will call you back. At the CDC.gov site you can see all the clinics that do IVF and find one near you if you were sure who did IVF near you.

Good luck!

03-03-2005, 07:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
AMariano Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 6	Does Anyone have Shared Cycle Information? (children ment.) Hello Does anyone know anything about Shared Cycle donation and how one could go about doing it? I had a Tubal Ligation sterilization in 1998 thinking my family was complete (bad marriage.) The marriage broke up. I remarried last year, and my new hubby has never had children of his own. He loves our three (two redheads and a very active brown-haired boy,) but would love to have a little one or ones of his own. IVF is not covered by his insurance (we live in Indiana, so there are no mandates for coverage), and we heard somewhere about Shared Cycle donation where I would donate half my eggs to another couple seeking IVF and they would pay for my IVF procedure and meds. Does anyone have experience with this to point me in the right direction? I am not a good candidate for tubal ligation reversal. Last edited by AMariano; 03-03-2005 at 07:28 PM.

03-03-2005, 08:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
bonfire belle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Louisiana Posts: 18	Check out Cooper Center for IVF in NJ. They do the shared donor egg cycle that you are lloking for. I did a cycle last April which ended up in miscarriage. Not anything related to the pregnancy, I had a huge blood clot in my leg and was put on heparin to dissolve the clot which inadvertantly caused me to loose the baby, I was 5 weeks PG at the time. I was the recipient and my donor went on to have triplet, identical boys and a girl, we each implanted 3 embryos: me - 1 -celled and 2 - 7 celled, her - 1 -6 celled and 2 - 5 celled. I have a picture of the babies and they are adorable. We do keep in touch and make sure each of us are doing OK. Lana __________________ Lana

03-05-2005, 11:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
bonfire belle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Louisiana Posts: 18	I'm not sure how much she paid, but I can tell you she paid for all her pre-monitoring workup. We started right away after all our BW and US cleared us and I had made payment. Cooper has an up to date price on their shared donor egg cycles, I paid about $6000 just to Cooper for the both of us. There were cost thatshe paid to Cooper like after transfer fees for monitoring and other little costs that you don't see. I paid for all her meds except for after transfer, when she had to pay for her own meds. My payment part ended with transfer. She also paid for all her own BW and US during the cycle, just like I had to pay for my own. We did the out of town monitoring and went to Cooper for retrieval and transfer. You can look at the Cooper site and subtract what doesn't apply to you and it should give you a ballpark figure. My donor was 32 at the beginning of our shared cycle and turned 33 prior to completion. Hope this helps. Lana __________________ Lana

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03-05-2005, 08:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
AMariano Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 6	Thank you for your response. Did your donor ever tell you how long she had to wait to donate and the approximate cost with fees? I'm turning 32 in two days, so I don't want to wait too long. If there is an extreme waiting period and the fees are close to what we have here anyway, I might as well stay close to home. We already have enough for the procedure, just not the meds and testing. There is a place in Indiana that does regular IVF cycle for $3,500 not including meds. Still, I wanted to help another woman as well. I wanted to donate eggs ever since I had my dd, but never did get a chance to.

03-07-2005, 07:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
emmaalso Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: southeast Posts: 228	Give your local clinic a call and ask them they will know. Clinics are so good about getting you in to discuss your situation and draw up alll of the options. Most if not all have internet sites where you can ask questions and someone will call you back. At the CDC.gov site you can see all the clinics that do IVF and find one near you if you were sure who did IVF near you. Good luck!