Second Opinion

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 tnguyen308 0 Comments

I've been seeing my Rheumatologist for about four years now and she's aware of our plans on having a baby. We've discussed medications that need to changed or taken out if I were to become pregnant. I've told her about our lastest unsuccessful attempts at IUI and she happens to mention an infertility doctor she's friends with that has patients with RA. Perfect, I think!

I immediately set up an appointment to discuss options with her. When initially meeting with her, I immediately clicked with her. She understood my concerns and opened to answering all of my questions, no matter how trivial they were. After requesting my medical records, she informed us that there's no reason why we couldn't try the old natural way with a more aggressive hormone therapy. And if that didn't work, our next option would be IUI and/or IVF with aggressive hormone medications. We were very excited about our options.

We decided to take a small break from all the hormone medications to let my body recoup, but at around the same time, the hubby was changing jobs. With the job change, it includes insurance change. The original insurance covered the medication for infertility, however, with the new job, which was through an agency, it did not. I did not fret too much, because when the hubby would be hired full-time, insurance would change and it should cover the medication.

Luckily for us, he was hired full-time sooner than expected and we were able to get on the new insurance immediately. I made phone calls to the proper channels to verify if the medication would be covered. After many phone calls and waiting, I was informed it was not. I was devastated. All the waiting and anxiousness to start came to a crash with one phone call telling me the medication would not be covered. The hormone medication was well over a couple thousands of dollars for one cycle, which did not come with a guarantee that it would work. We could not put all this money into something that could cause a lot of heartache. I couldn't go through it again, I just couldn't.