Pasquale Patrizio

He spoke to you on a level for you to understand, not just medical terms which can be very confusing when you are so stressed to begin with. I felt that he made sure I fully understood and agreed with the plans of treatment before moving forward and was very open to answer any questions that my husband and I presented him with.

It is hard to see him all of the time, but in my past experience that is the way it usually is with the visits in between getting to your retrieval and transfer.

I am not 100% sure on the details of the treatment strategies... so here is the best I can do. I was able to produce my own eggs and a descent # of them. My husband also had a pretty good sperm count/motility and mobility. We had done 3 IUI's when trying to conceive with our first child (who was conceived through fresh IVF transfer) when we told him all three of those failed and we were successful with IVF he said that we would not waste time in doing the IUI's that we would go right to doing IVF since that worked for us best and that is what we did. I had my retrieval and then my transfer that resulted in a pregnancy with a little girl which I miscarried at about 10 weeks. We went on to do a transfer with 2 of the 4 embryos that I had left and that did not result in a pregnancy. We are now determining if we are going to move forward with a 3rd transfer of the last 2 remaining frozen embryos.

There was a long wait sometimes but it moved fast and the nursing staff did an excellent job of getting everyone in in a reasonable time. If it was super busy they would have 3 people jump in to do blood draws.

My insurance covered most of the first transfer (egg retrieval/transfer) I had to pay I believe around $2k oop. But that was all they covered, for lifetime! My second transfer cost $4,700 OOP to the clinic.

I only did multiple embryo transfer (2) max.

Dr. Patrizio is friendly and easy to talk to and will be straight forward. He tells you what he thinks the best course of action is, but will let you make your own decisions. For instance, he clearly laid out why we should only transfer one embryo, but let us make the final decision. He did not perform my IUIs, but he was adamant that he would be the one to perform the egg transfer as he says that is the most important part. The one thing I did not like was that I felt like he gave us false confidence with the IUIs. Because I have unexplained infertility, he was very sure that an IUI would work and when it didn't, I was even more devastated. In the end, we achieved a live birth with only one round of IVF, which was still pretty good.

Don't expect someone meek and sympathetic - though he is friendly, he's not there to be a therapist, he's there to get you a baby.

Because we had unexplained infertility, Dr. Patrizio suggested we began with 3 IUIs because they were cheaper and I am young, so the likelihood of them working was good. Coincidentally, we also needed to do 3 IUIs for our insurance to cover IVF. After I failed to conceive following each of these, we did a fresh IVF cycle that produced my son.

There was a monitoring window every morning from 7 -8:15 or so. When you arrived, you were given a number and taken on a first come, first served basis. Sometimes I was taken right away, other times I waited over an hour. It was luck of the draw. I did arrive after the window a few times and they still monitored me, which was much appreciated.

My insurance fully covered the care, so I'm not sure.

Dr. Patrizio is all for single embryo transfer when possible, but will do what you ask. He personally looks at all the embryo grades and picks the order best for transfer.

I have nothing but positive things to say about Dr Patrizio. He was a complete blessing to me. I never felt alone or like I wasn’t being heard. He worked with my husbands military schedule to get us in as soon as possible. He’s very knowledgeable, smart, kind, warm and friendly. He is sensitive to your feelings and listens to you. I’ve been seeming doctors for years with my endometriosis and he was the first person to acknowledge that it is painful and not belittle how I described it. I will always recommend him to anyone I know needing a doctor.

Never think your route has ended. He is the hardest working doctor I have ever seen to help someone achieve their goal of being a parent. He will work with you every step of the way and give you options to succeed.

The process began after discovering I had contracted chlamydia after a rape. He told me he was so sorry and comforted me. He wanted to see if it had done any damage to my tubes. We had attempted a tubal cannulation but it wasn’t able to work. We went forward to go for an ivf process. We had to do this out of pocket and he did have some military packages available for us to choose from. We told him the dates my husband would be gone and he worked with us to schedule a proper date for ivf so my husband would be there for the birth. Unfortunately at the end of my ivf he discovered my left tube was swollen and needed to be removed. He talked to me about doing survey and then a frozen embryo transfer. He gave me a step by step details of what was going to be done so we moved forward. He retrieved my eggs and happily there was 9 embryos. Then he preformed my surgery later to remove my left tube and to look at the right one. He also cleaned up some endometriosis. After healing I went back in and he discussed how the fet cycle would work and we made a plan. I started estrace then progesterone in oil and went on August 14th 2018 for my transfer. He made that such a happy experience I felt no discomfort or pain. My husband and I were so thrilled to watch as the embryo was shot into me. On a August 24th we went back for blood work to check for a pregnancy. There was no baby. My nurse team and dr Patrizio expressed how sorry they were and that none of them were giving up on me. We found out later that my thyroid levels had been elevated and I was put on a medication to help even it out. It was then discovered I had antithyroid antibodies as well. As of right now we are waiting for my period to start to start another fet cycle. My husband will be gone during this time but my doctor made sure all the papers were signed so I was able to do the transfer. This cycle he is also going to be putting in two embryos for a better chance at a pregnancy. He expressed over and over again how sorry he was this all was happening to me and the strain it must be causing our family to be taking out loans to pay for everything and that he was determined to help me before we got relocated with the military.

IVF treatment was $9k-$10k, the meds for ivf were a little over $3k. And each fet cycle was $3,700. The meds for fet were covered and only needed copays of $10 for the estrace and $11 for progesterone in oil.

He always left the number of embryos up to my husband and I and have his advice as well. He explained every aspect and side it could go. We always felt very lucky to be so informed and to be able to choose how many embryos we wanted.

Dr. Patrizio is very warm and welcoming with a great bed side manner and great sense of humor. I feel like he could have been more involved with my care but then again, I know he is busy and has lots of patients. I was however very happy with the staff at yale and was ok with them tending to my care.

Be aware that you won't see him at every visit. There are times where you have to let him know what you want because he is very laid back in his approach.

I remember for my 2nd round of ivf - I told him that I wanted to keep it similar to my first round because my body reacted well to the meds and I did get pregnant, although I did miscarry. He was ok with that and was open to my feedback. We followed the same protocol with injectables but my body took longer to react the 2nd time. I think that was a good thing because it gave my body the time to grow and nurture my eggs!

IVF is covered under my insurance, thankfully. I just paid for the office visits or fees not covered by insurance such as freezing of the embryos.

no comment

Dr. Patricio cared about getting me pregnant. He moved a little slower than I would have hoped, but maybe that’s just the nature of the industry. He called me personally with results, joked when needed, and was serious when needed. I felt loved and embraced by him and his team.

To come prepared with as much of an education about fertility treatments as possible. He respects intelligence and will give you more information if he feels it will benefit you.

I did IVF with PGD, using Gonal-F, Follistim, and other I can’t remember. We had one failed cycle where one embryo was transferred, and one successful live birth after a transfer of two embryos.

21k for retrieval, pgd testing, and transfer. 700 a year for frozen embryos.

Dr. Patrizio was supportive of our choice. He gave us all the information and let us choose.

I found him to be very rigid in his protocols. Anything I suggested he would say I didn't need it or it wouldn't work for me. Yet we had setbacks and cancelled cycles and he wasn't willing to try different things.

I think he's a good doctor to start treatment with, for many that don't have such a difficult case as mine he has great success.

My protocol was a very basic one using stim drugs for retreival. For my frozen transfers only estrogen was used in preparation, even when it didn't seem to be working, nothing was added to help. He didn't believe anything else would help or make a difference.

The monitoring was first come first served in a time frame in the morning. There was often quite a long line and a long wait to be seen. Also, you almost never saw a doctor in the morning so it was hard to get any questions answered.

I was under insurance when I saw Dr Patrizio so I am unaware of what the costs were.

He did not example the reasoning for using one versus two. He simply asked if we were good doing 2 and did that.

He is a very intelligent doctor. He was good. He might be better than the YNH practice.

Ask a lot of questions...

Monitoring appointments at Westport were completely different than those at New Haven. Westport was fantastic, kind, prompt, organized. All staff members knew every patient that walked in the door and what they were there for. New Haven, made me feel like cattle. If I arrived first, I had to push my way to stay first in line. Generally, the staff didn't know if you were on IVF or IUI or another procedure. It was supposed to start at 7:15 on the weekends, but the ultra-sound doctors didn't show up until 7:30 or 7:45. It took a long time.

He is very kind, explains things well, likeable and obviously cares. I wish that he had communicated better about the actual egg retrieval and that another doctor would be performing the procedure. It was also a difficult call to decide whether to freeze only eggs or a combo of eggs and embryos.

Ask for clarity about who performs what procedures.

Lupron was used back then...this was a long time ago. Also, the old style of egg freezing (slow freeze) was used, which isn't used anymore typically. I'm guessing it would be a different experience at this point given that this was so long ago. I would still go to Dr. Patrizio though, although would want more information about the lab, techniques, etc.

I did most of my monitoring at a different clinic so cannot comment on this.

$10k

Dr. Patrizio is wonderful, and I trust him and his decisions. Very matter of fact and honest throughout our journey. Just send very busy, and that I'm not necessarily special... I'm one of what seems like many women in the same situation, all going through the same steps.

All for details about treatment regimens before communicating with nurses;the nurses manage all of the care in between the key consultation visits.

Clomid 50mg (days 3-7 one cycle, 4-8 other) + ovidrel trigger and IUI less than 24 hours later.

So far covered by insurance, so copays

He was positive and informative. Knowledgeable, easy to communicate with, good treatment even if I did not get all the results I wanted like a baby through this process. Through with pre-testing and also explained procedures well.

To ask questions if you are unsure if process and to share your feelings. Very honest.

We did egg ovulation stimulation, egg retrieval, ICSIS, 5 day transfer, egg freezing, blood monitoring and ultra sounds, also pregnancy test.

Parts were covered by insurance some weren’t. After 40 most insurance won’t cover treatment. We have paid quite a bit out of pocket.

For my age only 2 embryos were transferred to increase chance of pregnancy.

He is always kind and answers all my questions (no matter how crazy) and will always let me be my own advocate and take into account any thoughts or ideas I might have. Unfortunately neither of my IVF rounds worked and I only get 2 rounds with my insurance so we have to wait until I have new insurance to do another round.

Ask lots of questions and write down the answers! I often forgot to ask certain things and forgot the responses to many others

There was definitely a long line but I would say the longest time I ever needed to wait was probably 35 minutes.

Most covered by insurance, I have a $5000 deductible

The Dr. wanted me to chose to do one or 2 embryos. I chose one but I know wish I had been pushed to do 2 depending on odds

He's very knowledgable but more interested in results in a statisical manner as in success rate as opposed to what would work best for you. Anesthesia did not help in pain of egg retrieval and I have a high tolerance for pain. Also, had horrific reaction to penilcillin and they kept administering it, even when my eyes swelled shut and it felt like a blow torch was being held to my chest.

Insist on instructions and medication doses in writing. Deal with head nurse if you can't deal with Patrizio. Also the "therapist" at Yale Fertility is very insensititve.

$42,000