Denise Cassidenti (retired)

When I first met Dr Cassidenti, she was warm, welcoming and answered all my questions. She laid out all of the steps required and left feeling confident about continuing to see her. However, after that point, I never saw her for any of my appointments unless I had questions about the treatment or clarification. The couple times I did ask, the nurses would have to track her down to ask the question and relay back to me. One of those instances, she actually came and spoke to me to tell me to only test (OPK) when she said to. Which I started the day I was told to, but she only wanted me testing once a day. If I did that I would have missed my Lh surge. After going back and forth with doctors and nurses, they had me come in and confirmed that I had ovulated. It was so stressful telling them I did and getting treated as if I was lying. For the first insemination I did not see her for treatment and had to go to a different location with a different doctor. For the second insemination, I asked the nurses if it was typical to continue the same plan after failed attempts. They asked doctor and was seen by some other doctor who asked me if I wanted to try a trigger shot. At this point I had no idea what a trigger shot was even for. Why was I being asked when I am seeing them for treatment? Needless to say, I left this place in tears a few times from the lack of answers.

Look for treatment elsewhere.

Performed 2 HSG's; 1 after a laparoscopy/before first IUI and 1 before third IUI. Tubes were clear both times. I took letrozole 2(2.5MG) tablets a day for 5 days for all 3 IUI's. All 3 negative HPT.

We paid out of pocket. Each HSG cost $500. IUI #1: $1,125 IUI #2: $1,120 IUI #3: $1,120

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If you did need to go to the other clinic and your frozen sperm isn't there, you will either need to pick up before procedure and take with you to the other location or (if they have someone available) they will have their courier deliver it before your appt.

She was instantly kind and welcoming and warm. She went through all of our testing with us and left room for us to ask any questions along the way. We didn’t feel rushed or like she just wanted to move onto the next patient. She is who we were looking for in our fertility doctor.

Go to her. You will feel warmly welcomed and gain so much clarity on what your specific journey looks like and will look like.

I have a thyroid on the higher scale. Not high but basically borderline, so she will be helping me in getting that to level out. She also advised me to get two vaccines that show being non-immune to which I have never gotten but should be done for the safety of pregnancy. I also am showing low reserve so will be retested on that to see how aggressive we should be in treatment.

I don’t have an exact quote at this time, since we have not decided on which treatment we are going with, yet. We are between IUI and IVF

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I would like to start by stating that I’m excited to have found the Clinic of my Dreams after 4 years of infertility. About 2 months ago I started being seen by Dr. Cassidenti. As many of us who have been on this infertility journey know that when we start a new clinic we have about a million and one questions about whats going to happen. She answered EVERY SINGLE one throughly during our initial consultation and ended it with “We won’t stop until you conceive and deliver”. That itself made me feel so confident and radiated positivity which is what we all need when battling Infertility. During our Initial 2 hour consultation she constantly asked if I was okay with the information as she proceeded and if I wanted to hear more about other fertility treatments and etc. Appointments can be overwhelming with information so for her to do that felt amazing and made me feel she genuinely cared about my emotions. I was coming from Clinics that constantly told me to “relax” and “worry” more about my credit score than trying so hard to get pregnant because I was so young to be a mother. She not once told me or insinuated that I was too young for this journey. She instantly requested bloodwork and advised for me to call on CD1 so we can get started with a PCT Test. When I called the nurses they were so helpful and promptly set up my appointment for my first ultrasound and got my bloodwork slip ready. They constantly called to follow up with me and provide me with Lab results and schedule future appointments. I then came in on a Sunday to have an ultrasound & PCT test done but It seemed not to be proper timing since I had yet to ovulate so they rescheduled me for the following day and gave me a trigger shot. I told my husband as I was getting dressed that I was so happy that they accommodate patients on the weekends and some of us need to work as much possible to afford the journey of infertility so it puts me at ease that I can be seen on weekends if needed. They also scheduled me for the following day with no problems and that was amazing because my last clinic was usually overbooked most of the time and would almost never accommodate any last minute appt so that would cause for cycles to be rescheduled. We had the PCT test and got the answer we needed to make our choice in what treatment was going to be best for us. We are now waiting for CD1 so we can start our First Cycle of IUI. I’m super excited and feel I’m finally in the hands of someone who genuinely cares about my dream of being a MOMMY. I have known since I was a little girl that the biggest job/role I wanted in life was to be a Mommy. When I would get asked what I wanted to be when I got older I would not hesitate to quickly say “A MOM”. I have great faith I will soon be writing another review about Dr. Cassidenti helping me conceive.

Have all your files and record sent over to the office prior to consultation so she can have a clear picture of your history!

We did prepare for the PCT Test by being put on Metformin, 150mg of Clomid from days 3-7 and A Trigger Shot.

Dr. Cassidenti has been an amazing practitioner so far. I have had to have uterine polyps removed prior to transferring an embryo so it has brought me a lot of anxiety. Dr. C has been a calming force to my procedure and has set us up for a successful transfer. She has allowed us to communicate all of our needs and has worked with us to make the best plan possible for a successful outcome.

She will do everything in her power to make you feel relaxed and ready for this endeavor.

We decided to go through stim and an egg retrieval before the polyp surgery. Dr. C suggested that freezing embryos gives your body time to relax from the stim medication and have a better chance of taking an embryo. Since we only had two embryos, Dr. C suggested a mock transfer cycle to give me the best chance of having a successful transfer.

With PGS testing of embryos, and paying all out of pocket, cost was around 15,500.

At this time, Dr. C agrees with our decision to transfer both of our frozen embryos. 1 embryo is graded as "Good" and 1 is a "Poor".

Initial appointment was good- she was very thorough. She was primary on my surgery and I think did okay with that and getting me prepared and giving me information. She was quite blunt when I went back and couldn't explain why I wasn't ovulating (I wanted answers!) but what she did worked as I am currently pregnant.

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