Center for Fertility Endocrine & Menopause (Wake Forest Baptist Health) (closed)

We struggled with ovarian hyper stimulation during our retrieval. It was expected, but we felt like it could have been prevented or we even could have halted the retrieval to keep it from happening. It was a rough experience for us and very scary.

Ask questions and advocate for yourself. If at all possible, have you and your partner present at each appointment to help hear all the things and ask all the questions.

We did have OHSS, which was expected and in hindsight possibly preventable.

Most in the office were kind and respectful. Since my partner is trans masculine and I’m female, I felt sometimes like we were lumped in with lesbian couples and their experiences.

We’ve spent, so far, around $10,000 for one retrieval cycle, genetic testing. We will spend more for storage fees and any transfers after the first try.

We haven’t transferred yet, but we’ve been told they would be single embryo transfers.

We used donor sperm and the coordination went fairly well. We did have to ask for clarity about what type we should purchase.

Dr. Deaton provided us with honesty, integrity and compassion. He was able to be there for us and provide us with the most up to date information that he had for our case. Dr. Deaton's strengths were that he was an active listener, he asked us questions to understand the route we wanted our treatments to take, he spoke to us like he had known us for years, he invited us into his own office space and talk to us for thirty minutes each time to ensure we understood the next methods of our treatment and most importantly, he was human, he understood things from a patient standpoint, he never acted as though he was more educated or was better than us. He had no weaknesses other than the fact that he was just TOO good at his work! He loves what he does and you can see it shine through in every appointment we had, he was excited as we got further into our process, he believed in us and he never gave up on our case.

The one piece of advise that I would give is to understand that Dr. Deaton's forwardness is for your own good. He is blunt and too the point because he does not want to steer anyone in the wrong direction especially for treatments that cost thousands of dollars. He will work with you and for you to ensure that you receive the end result that you've wanted your entire life, just believe in him!

My wife & I completed reciprocal IVF, her eggs, my body. In the beginning he set us up for a consultation, where he spent an hour going over our case and telling us what to expect and answering any questions we had. Once we decided to progress in our process, we attended a shots teach class to learn how to administer the shots correctly. After that he prescribed my wife 2 weeks of birth control to regulate her period because she had an estrogen cyst that they wanted to stop from hindering us, he also made us trigger to help the estrogen cyst from continuing to release, therefore the trigger helped stop it completely. Then 150 dosage of Menopur (2 vials of powder, one of saline), 300u of Gonal-F, 2 Doxycycline pills a day, Cetrotide for 6 days before the retrieval and a trigger shot 36 hours before retrieval. He done this to help grow the follicles, with my wife having a low AMH he wanted to ensure that the follicles grew to a mature state before retrieving them, since there was a chance they wouldn't all make it to day five blasts. In the meantime during the process I had began taking Estrace pills and patches. Since we completed a fresh transfer with two five day blasts, before the transfer I had to begin taking Medrol twice a day before transfer, I also began taking progesterone six days before my transfer and have been taking the pills, patches and progesterone ever since!

The cost of the services were pretty pricey, my wife had no infertility benefits and the insurance cover the medications and we only paid $850 out of pocket, however the egg retrieval was $1850, the transfer was $1850, the saline ultrasound was $350. The routine blood work was about $50 for my wife each time, but free for me. We had to pay the doctor's fee for the egg retrieval on the day of my wife's baseline ultrasound which was $1200. The donor sperm was $950. So it definitely added up pretty quickly, but I wouldn't trade it because it was completely worth it every penny.

Our doctor likes to transfer one, however, he talks this through with the client and comes up with the best possible solution. With our case and only have two five day blast, we had none to freeze and he suggested implanting both, which is what we wanted. In the beginning we asked the nurse why he only liked implanting one and her answer was that, their theory is, they have gotten a patient that far, they don't want to implant multiples and someone end up not being successful. Therefore one is the better bet because multiples are considered high risk and IVF patients are already considered high risk because of the compromise that your body is under during the process.