Diane Woodford

Dr. Woodford is very compassionate and knowledgeable. We never feel disconnected or like she is not invested in our success. She engages us in conversation about our treatments and is frequently asking us how we feel things are going. She also regularly encourages us to do our own research and to never be shy about challenging information with information. Conversations are also very productive because we are not taking marching orders, we are working together with her to find the common ground where everyone is comfortable with “the plan”

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. If she doesn’t immediately have the answer she will find it!

Yes, our doctor has very strong preferences regarding eSET and given we did not meet her criteria for multiple embryo transfer, it was not really an option for us. After being explained to the risks involved we ultimately found ourselves in agreement.

Dr. Woodford was very thorough in getting me evaluated for other potential infertility causes. After 3 failed iui’s I went to Dr. Woodford for a second opinion. She ordered genetic testing, redid my hsg, and did an SIS on me. She found that my right tube was partially blocked and that I had uterine polyps. My previous doctor had failed to find these things months prior when I had undergone 2 back to back iui’s that failed. Dr. Woodford was able to go in and remove several polyps. It took another surgery to remove a fibroid. My egg retrieval was very successful and they retrieved several eggs that turned into blasts. An FET was done with 2 eggs and 1 implanted. I am finally pregnant after 3 years of infertility treatment. Dr. Woodford is not educated in diabetes management which often coincides with PCOS. She referred me out to an Mfm doctor. It was wet stressful trying to get my A1C under 6 due to type 2 diabetes before we did a transfer. Nevertheless, I was able to do it. You have to advocate for yourself when it comes to managing your diabetes along with fertility treatments. It has been a long and stressful process. However, I was successful in the end.

Go to another doctor if you want an RE who knows how to manage diabetes.

IVF after 3 failed cycles Hysteroscopy due to polyps

$7000

Dr. Woodford listened to what I wanted and transferred 2 non pgs tested embryos.

Dr. Woodford is super friendly and very knowledgeable. She is very good at communicating what is going on in your body during treatments. I trust her because she is honest about expectations. Because I go to the satellite office in Gilbert, I don’t see her as often as I would like. She is very reachable by email and telephone though.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions and to voice your opinions and concerns.

We did three rounds of IUI that were unsuccessful in causing pregnancy. We then moved to IVF. We have done two egg retrieval’s with PGS testing. We currently have one frozen normal embryo and are doing another egg retrieval in order to bank more eggs.

As stated previously it rubbed me the wrong way when certain things were discussed at my consultation that were not followed through with later visits and I had to call and bug and email reminders about certain things. Beyond that and being able to get past that because it was more clerical than anything our doctor has been wonderful she has been in communication with us very upfront about what to expect said an outline for us if we don’t achieve those expectations within a certain timeframe and that will adjust expectations and protocol if necessary. She is always open to having a conversation Or appointment if you just want to check in with her if you feel like you’re not getting what you need from the clinic and I absolutely love that that they will make a time to see the patients just to have a conversation to both get on the same page and all that stuff goes along way for me

I would be very specific about expectations write down things about medications frequency of appointment types of medications amounts of medications that you speak with her about so when talking with the nurses the correct stuff gets ordered for you

I was pretty lucky and had great success with this doctor for my first our UI. I had previously done five are you are is with another doctor out of state that were unsuccessful. My protocol for my positive pregnancy resulting in a single tan wise letrozole cycle days three through seven then on the eighth cycle day we did 75 units of Follistim, my follicles reacted amazing, went In for a scan they were measuring where they needed to be we triggered the next night had her IUI and two weeks later found out we were successful and in July 2018 welcomed our baby boy. Fast forward to June 2019 we did one unsuccessful are you are you in the protocol for that was cycle days three through 72 pills of lectures all and then I did seven days of 75 units of Menopur injections, my follicles were slow to react then finally were measuring correctly and we triggered with ovidrel and ended up being a failed cycle. I am currently on CD 6 and taking letrazole until CD7, CD8 I will start menopur and inject 75units for 7 days and hopefully that’s what I need! For all cycles I was on 2000mg of metformin for PCOS, 1000unots of vitamin D, and a prenatal.

i unfortunately do not have this information readily available

N/A for my situation - but I do know her approach is a single embryo transfer unless deemed medically necessary based on age, egg reserve and multiple other factors to do MET.