I made a bunch of phone calls today. The first one was to the pharmacy that the injects meds was going to go through, in order for me to find out the cost of them all: $621. That’s pretty low for an injects cycle, from what I’ve heard. (Of course there’s the possibility that I wouldn’t respond well and need more. But the RE seemed to think that my body would respond pretty well.) I also told the guy at the pharmacy that it might get cancelled and I’d call back in a day or two after talking to my doctor. (The pharmacy wasn’t going to get anything started until they got my insurance info anyways. I still feel bad about making changes like this. Gah.)

Then I left a message for the nurses to give me a call back so we could talk about what DH and I have decided to do. Someone called back a little later.

She was extremely helpful. :) She wrote down in my chart our changes, that we’re not doing injectibles in order to save that money for IVF, and we cancelled that class we were going to have to take next week on injects. I asked her about possibly doing a clomid/IUI cycle again, she said she thinks that would be fine but she’s going to double-check with the RE. :) I’m not too concerned, since I’m only, what 2dpo today. I have two weeks to figure it out. ;)

Then a couple hours later I got a call from someone on the IVF side. I guess someone must have passed on my info. She said if I know which protocol I’m going to be doing for IVF, if the RE told me, then she can give me a better idea about prices. She said in general she quotes people $5000. For the meds. O.O Den nearly choked when I told him that later. I really really hope my protocol will be lower than that! The RE did say lupron/follistim for my IVF, but I don’t think I know enough yet (like how much of each) in order to get a price for my own situation. But if it’s seriously going to be $5000 then we may have to wait a lot longer to do it, as most of that will be out of pocket. Yikes. Where the heck are we going to come up with that kind of money? (Which of course is the reason I’m trying to find out a ballpark now – so we know what we’re going to have to come up with.)

She said before doing IVF there’s a few steps that need to be done, first of which is going to an IVF Overview class. I need to call the IVF “people” (I guess it’s a seperate set of nurses and coordinators) to set that up. I’m unsure if I should schedule that for Feb or just wait until later.

I totally forgot to ask about scheduling a lap. I think I’m probably going to go ahead with it. Scared about it, though… which makes it easier to say, “Well, the RE didn’t think it was necessary…” but with insurance covering diagnostics it does make sense to go ahead just in case.

So everything seems to be settling back down again and heading in the right direction. I’m still worried about the physical stuff I will have to be going through with the lap and the IVF, and now we’re worried too about the financial aspect. :( IF is hard enough without worrying about paying for it – I don’t know how people do it when they have to pay for ALL of it themselves. Yikes.