Anatte Karmon

Dr Karmon is amazing and I'm glad that I decided to get a second opinion because my first Doctor wanted me to just do IVF. It took 3 months with that last doctor and we did no treatments. Dr. Karmon understood my needs and wants. She shared that I had more than 1 option and let me do medicated cycles. She really showed compassion and integrity.

Listen to your gut and know what you want but also listen to Dr. Karmon because she knows what's best for you.

We did a monitored 100mg clomid on my first round with the trigger shot and IUI. She said for my next round if we dont fall pregnant we will go straight to 5mg letrozol. We are currently doing it, monitored, with the trigger shot and IUI again.

Out of pocket it has been over $100 each time I had to go in for a scan because insurance would not cover it and I will go maybe once or twice a week. One day I had to pay about $250 and another day I had to pay $300.

She was easy going and walked us through our results from the first sperm analysis. Our analysis seemed extremely abnormal but referred my husband to a Endocrinologist and a Urologist. She gave us a game plan and now we are just waiting for our results to see if we have to do IVF with ICSI or if there is another option for us. She seemed hopefully that if my husband could get his blood sugar (he has Type 1 diabetes) down there is a possibility we could conceive naturally. So we are awaiting to see his results from his second sperm analysis. Since it was the right time during my cycle at our consult we did a test to see if there was any fibroids in uterus. Everything came back normal. She gave us hope. And that means the world to us.

She’s awesome. And don’t be afraid to ask questions.

We are still in the process for our second consults. Husband needs to repeat his Sperm analysis. In the mean time he’s going to be working with an Endocrinologist to help bring his sugar levels down. She suggested I start taking prenatal vitamins and CoQ10 In the mean time. Once we get the results from His second sperm analysis will figure out what’s the next step for us.

No costs at this time but it is estimated we will spend better 4-5K

From day one Dr. Karmon has always made me feel like we can achieve our goals. She has helped me keep faith in this long, dreadful journey. When things didn’t work as planned, she would assure me there is still more possibilities and would adjust our plan of action. Her compassion is like no other and I always felt like she was right there with me. I actually referred my best friend to her. My best friend had 2 recurrent unexplained miscarriages and after her second one I suggested she contact Dr. Karmon for help. I trusted her so much that I sent my best friend to her for help. My best friend is now about to give birth to a baby girl in April.

To trust In Dr. Karmon. She knows what she’s doing and with her help she will lead you in the right direction.

For the first cycle, because of insurance, we had to do timed intercourse. Because I have PCOS I don’t typically have regular cycles. They started me on Provera for 10 days. I had to do a HCG which showed my left tube was blocked and had polyps in my uterus. Dr. Karmon did a hysteroscopy to remove the polyps. The next cycle we started with Provera and then Femara. After no results with Femara, we moved on to Follistim. For the first 2 cycles with follistim at 100 units, it took just about 30 days for my follicles to respond. The remaining cycles, Dr. Karmon introduced a steroid with the Femara in the beginning of the cycle to hopefully help my follicles react sooner. With the steroid it took my follicles less than a week of follistim!!!! After my last failed IUI, we discussed IVF and are due to start the medication once I get my period.

Costs after insurance: About $40 for scans and bloodwork, done 3-7 times per cycle $178 per IUI after military discount and insurance Total prepayment for IVF after insurance $5000. Not including any medication or other tests during IVF

Dr. Karmon highly recommended eSET and said that she would allow up to two but really preferred to do one because my husband and I are both young and healthy.

Dr Karmon is by far the best doctor I have ever had! She takes the time with each patient and she very passionate at what she does. She is very caring and took the time to treat me as a person and not a patient.

Don't give up. I know it may seem trying, but Dr Karmon is amazing and she has faith in what she does and she will be there every step of the way with you.

Dr Karmon and my IVF nurse was amazing! They helped me with every injection teaching, every question I may have had, every tiny anxiety attack (thinking I did it wrong, when I didn't) They made everything seem like a breeze and time flew by during my treatments

Dr Karmon had a plan from the very beginning of my treatment and we stuck to it. No unexpected changes was added, and everything went smooth.

Dr. Karmon was was very direct and clear in her communication. We saw her at almost every appointment and she was a great match for us. She took the time to look into all options and was very straightforward in letting us know her opinions on how she thought we should proceed. We saw her for two successful pregnancies and have recommended her to other friends going through infertility.

Be very clear in what you want and be willing to trust her professional opinion. She is very professional and as you work with her more you’ll see that she is a very warm person.

After a few failed rounds of clomid with my regular OB, we tried two IUIs, then at Dr. Karmon’s recommendation, we went straight for IVF. She felt we should do IVF not only from a cost standpoint but because I was a good candidate for it to be successful.

Around $11,500 for everything - PGS, IVF, drs visits, meds, etc

At our request, Dr. Karmon let us put in two frozen embryos for the first transfer which resulted in a successful pregnancy and birth of our son. For the second round, I discussed the risks with her and we decided on one which has resulted in a positive pregnancy with a baby girl due in June.

After 7 years trying to get a baby, three clinics, two countries, we were lucky enough to find Dr.Karmon. She was the only one in that long period of time, that saw the whole picture, was clear, realistic still with hope and candid manners. She's the only one that saw at 44 of age a chance to find new explanations on why things were not working like nobody before even thought, and boom! we have now a pretty little baby girl. Some is being persistent, financial wise or helped, courageous, strong and focussed, some luck helps too, but you need for sure a great doctor, and that's Dr.Karmon

She'll go over the whole thing, very detail oriented and would honestly and softly suggest options and give her wise advice. I'd say take it. It worked for us!

After many cycles, egg retrievals, fertilizations, pgd's etc etc we did with her only one more egg retrieval (we've had 3 frozen embryos tested at that time, but after way too many loses we wanted to be on the most possible safer side). It did not work and it was us suggesting no more retrievals and the next step accepted, offered before hand by Dr Karmon to study for possible polyps (one was there and was minimally invasively removed) and the great ERA study, to find out the need of extra or less hormones to be able con conceive in a fake cycle as far as I can explain it non-medically. Both things prepared the uterus and we were able to get pregnant. By month 3 you definitely need as well a good obgyn, specially if you are on the "considered" risk age for pregnancy.

have no idea and probably at this point that's a good thing

The doctor suggested to have both (Last!) good embryos transferred so we could have higher chances...but we decided to have one other chance, considering we only had two. Now we have a healthy baby and a silver bullet on another pgd tested embryo for a last attempt to have another baby (hopefully soon)

She was attentive and seemed to treat us as an individual case. Not just putting our situation in a box. Very factual. She still had a joking manner when necessary which made her seem “ more human”, she made my husband feel at ease which is super difficult. Cancelled a cycle though based on the numbers she could have went through with procedure but felt we could do better. I trusted her opinion

Expect honesty and her best effort

Before egg retrieval we did the out of pocket expense like testosterone and coenzyme q10. First cycle had fewer follicles then tried a different birth control approach less time in BC and started the testosterone had 3 more follicle which increased my egg count.

As explained

She offered her opinion but made it my decision pros and cons explained.

I rarely saw her, she only did one ultrasound and my egg retrieval. It was my first time doing IVF so I had a lot of questions. I didn't always feel like she had the time to explain things to me. She was a nice person but did not have the warmest bedside manner.

Other nurses will see you for most of your appointments so she doesn't really get to know you.

Since it was my first IVF she used a high dose of meds, as no one knew how my body would react.

I love Dr. Karmon from the initial consult to my egg retreival. I saw her at every visit and she did my surgery. She's very passionate about what she does and goes over every option a patient has based on their characteristics.

Be open about your concerns. Dr. Karmon is so good at answering any questions you have and makes you feel at ease about the process.

I wasn't assigned a doctor as we were just doing an IUI. But as a whole it was a good experience with everyone we came into contact with. I'm not sure the name of the person who performed the IUI; she was kind and informative.

No advice. As always, do your research first and pick a doctor that you feel will listen to you and will support you best.

This was an IUI cycle with monitoring, clomid and trigger shot.

approx. $230 for an IUI with sperm washing (not including monitoring)

She’s very welcoming, honest and warm. At times puzzled with what to do next but confident in the choices she had for us, during the down times she was very incuragaing that it will happen hopefully and didn’t give up in helping me through a tough time. Very passionate about helping families grow.

Be hopeful and trust her advice and mostly don’t give up.

I honestly can only remember trying to find the right balance of hormone shots everyday taking a bunch of vitamins to help with healthy eggs, a million ultrasounds that I loved going to and when we got pregnant shots in the butt that hurt but so worth it.

My HMSA helped a lot of the IUI treatments, my husbands insurance covered what mine couldn’t, out of picked I basically paid for the inserts.

No comments due to we didn’t have to do that.