How was your experience with Nicole Noyes at NYU Langone Fertility Center (Prelude Network Clinic)?
Our initial meeting with her lasted almost an hour. She spent a lot of time asking me questions about myself, family, job, education, social life etc. She really wanted to know who should could be working with. She made me feel like I was doing the right thing, and that I was light years ahead of my counterparts. It was obvious from this meeting that Dr. Noyes's compassion and bedside manner matched my needs.
Once my cycles started I did not see Dr. Noyes very often. I saw her an average of 2 times per cycle, and Dr. Noyes did not do either of my two retrievals.
What's one piece of advice would you give a prospective patient of Nicole Noyes at NYU Langone Fertility Center (Prelude Network Clinic)?
Be ready to have complete strangers give you internal ultrasounds at 7:05 am. If you this bothers you, than NYU, Cornell, or any big time center, is not the place.
Talk to the person in the finance office that deals with medications and insurance. I was able to get my medication covered through Aenta Speciality Pharmacy. Aetna themselves did not tell me this, one of the patient coordinators at NYU told me to go through Aenta Speciality Pharmacy.
The medications are brutal but you just need to power through it with your eye on the end result.
Write everything down the doctors and nurses tell you during monitoring and nightly calls.
Stay organized by inputting your medication doses and timing on the calendar on your phone.
Keep track of your medication supplies daily, and check with the doctors/nurse weekly to be sure you have the correct supplies and enough medication to complete your cycle.
Never give up. After having my first cycle cancelled I was devastated. I pushed through and ended up with 34 eggs...
Describe the protocols Nicole Noyes used in your cycles at NYU Langone Fertility Center (Prelude Network Clinic) and their degree of success.
Round 1: Non-Lupron Cycle (10/27/09-11/4/09) - Cycle Cancelled
10/27/09: Nothing
10/28/09: Blood work and Ultrasound- saw Dr. Noyes: 450 Follistim pm
10/29/09: 225 Follistim am & 225 Follistim am
10/30/09: 225 Follistim am & 225 Follistim am
10/31/09: Blood work and Ultrasound - did not see Dr. Noyes, saw a fellow: 450 Follistim pm
11/01/09: 450 Follistim pm
11/02/09: Blood work and Ultrasound - did not see Dr. Noyes, saw a fellow, only 4 eggs, was told by fellow that these were disappointing results. The fellow was also about 8 months pregnant, so that did not help the situation. Antagon injected at NYU, 450 Follistim pm
11/03/09: Antagon am & 450 Follistim pm
11/04/09: Blood work and Ultrasound- saw Dr. Noyes, only 2 eggs, cycle cancelled. HcG shot taken at home
Round 2: Lupron Cycle (11/11/09-12/10/09) - 12 eggs
11/11/09-11/22/09 - .1 injection of Lupron
11/23/09 - Blood work and Ultrasound - did not see Dr. Noyes, saw a fellow, possibility of cysts
11/23/09 - 11/27/09 - .5 Lupron
11/25/09 - Blood work and Ultrasound - saw Dr. Noyes, possibility of cysts so may delay start
11/28/09 - ok'd to start - .5 Lupron, 450 Follistim, 150 Menpur
11/29/09 - .5 Lupron & 450 Follistim am, 150 Menpur pm
11/30/09 - .5 Lupron & 450 Follistim am, 150 Menpur pm
12/01/09 - Blood work - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/02/09 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/03/09 - Blood work and Ultrasound - did not see Dr. Noyes, 9 eggs, .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/04/09 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/05/09 - Blood work and Ultrasound - did not see Dr. Noyes, 9 eggs, .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/06/09 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/07/09 - Blood work and Ultrasound - saw Dr. Noyes, 9 eggs, .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
12/08/09 - Blood work 0- HcG shot at 11pm
12/09/09 - nothing
12/10/09 - retrieval - 12 eggs
Round 3: Lupron Cycle (01/08/10-02/20/10) - 22 eggs ( I didn't seem to write down when I saw Dr. Noyes at morning monitoring)
01/08/10 - 1/26/10 -Blood work and Ultrasounds every 3 days. Progesterone levels were low, ovulation was delayed, and there was a cyst on my ovary.
01/27/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - saw Dr. Noyes - got the ok to start as ovulation had occurred.
01/28/ - 02/05/10 - .1 Lupron until period
02/05/10 - Day 1 of cycle. Called NYU to let them know that I had gotten my period and did not receive a call back
02/06/10 - continued the .1 of Lupron. Did not hear from NYU all day. Called at 5:30pm, got a call back at 7pm from a doctor I had never met.
02/07/10 - .1 Lupron
02/08/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - ok'd to officially start stims - .1 of Lupron in the am, .5 Lupron, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur in the pm
02/09/10 - .5 Lupron & 450 Follistim am, and 150 Menpur pm
02/10/10 - .5 Lupron & 450 Follistim am, and 150 Menpur pm
02/11/10 - Blood work - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/12/10 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/13/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/14/10 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/15/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/16/10 - .5 Lupron am, 450 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/17/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - .5 Lupron am, 150 Follistim & 150 Menpur pm
02/18/10 - Blood work and Ultrasound - .5 Lupron am, 11pm HcG
02/19/10 - Blood work
02/20/10 - Retrieval - 22 eggs
Describe your experience with the nursing staff at NYU Langone Fertility Center (Prelude Network Clinic).
The nurses were amazing. I was coming in from Westchester and needed to get back to work in Westchester by 8:30 am, so I would get to monitoring at 6:30 am. They did their best to take me back first each morning, which was a huge relief.