Saji Jacob

He explained every step of my procedures before and during. I made my own choices of what I wanted to achieve and he made efforts to achieve them. He gives you options and see which one you would like to take from his recommendations.

Be patient and know what you want to achieve and how you want them to achieve.

Dr. Jacob had me on IUI protocol with 50mcg of Follistim for 5 days and I would come into the clinic every other day for blood work and ultrasound to check my follicles. By the fifth day my follicles wasn't where he was liking them to be, he wanted to up my dosage of the follistim. But I canceled that cycle instead of wasting more money and move on to IVF. I decided to go with IVF because it would be a more promising chance of convincing a child

I don't remember the cost at the moment

Dr. Jacob always tweaked medication if he saw issues within the processing and always gave us hope. Dr. Jacob also treated us with respect and made sure this process as smooth as possible (as one can try). Dr. Jacob gave us the best opportunity in trying to have a healthy pregnancy and it was successful!

To prepare to have an incredible doctor who works in and out of the clinic for his patients. Dr. Jacob puts his whole life into IVF.

During my first cycle, my left ovary was not responding to stimulation and once eggs were retrieved on the first retrieval, we could only receive many healthy eggs from my right ovary. I was on follistim, doxycycline, and Lupron as a trigger shot. With the second retrieval, Dr. Jacob had added Menopur to my daily medication and it made an incredible difference and we had a better outcome. After the retrieval, we had sent 8 embryos off for testing and only 1 came back genetically normal. This leading to the result of Dr. Jacob inferring that our previous pregnancy loss before IVF was due to a genetic issue within the embryos. For transfer protocol, I was put on Lupron and progesterone. After the transfer I was on Lovenox and aspirin with prenatal vitamins.

The costs with this IVF clinic were efficient to what a normal person would spend to get treatment for IVF

Dr. Jacob left the options to the patients when wanting to transfer the number(s) of embryos. He did offer an opinion.

Dr. Jacobs was a very educated man but had a hard tome explaining things. He always said it will happen but when things didn’t plan out he wanted us to pay the money first then talk to him for consultation. Every office visit I had to pay a co pay even if it was just drawing blood. There office lost my results for blood testing and my 2 week wait turn into a 2 week 1/2 wait. I don’t feel that he was very comforting to our situation. He couldn’t explain things like over stimulated ovaries due to that I had some the embryo transfer and I urinated every two minutes and he had no explanation but he said it may be a Uti so he gave me more antibiotics while I actually had the transfer in my uterus.

Don’t go to him because he will see you as a number rather than a desperate human that just wants and would do anything for a family.

I was told to get my Fallopian tubes removed due to fluid with inthem and scarring. He said he thought it would be best for a successful cycle. He also prescribed follistem 30mg/ml, progesterone 550mg/ml, manutrex, estriol 10mg,hcg 200mg/ml, and birth control and prenatal. All meds where used in the event of a positive pregnancy test.

For one cycle it averaged out to about 15000 with meds included. For the second transfer it was an extra 6000 with meds.

He didn’t have a grasp on changing up protocol for meds on the second round. I feel if he would have tested embryos more it could potentially been beneficial instead of placing something back in me that didn’t work the first time.

He met with us each visit which was nice and thoroughly explained his thoughts on our treatment and diagnoses. He did not have the best bedside manner however and was very blunt and not willing to try IUIs or any other treatment besides IVF or get to the root cause of what was going on.