Gregory Christman

Dr. Christman is an extremely intelligent and experience doctor. When I was choosing a fertility specialist, I looked up Dr. Christman, and was very happy to see that he has not only won awards (such as Top 1% of US Reproductive Endocrinologists), he has also published and/or participated in numerous research papers and trials and several of them were dealing with exactly what I am diagnosed with. I felt that I was in capable hands with him, and have never doubted that he would come up with an appropriate care plan based on my PCOS diagnosis. From the minute I would be in the exam room or office for my visit, I knew that he would devote all of his attention to my treatment and take the time to discuss everything thoroughly, compassionately, and knowledgeably. He used the information that we gained from each failed attempt to guide the next cycle's treatment.

I would tell them to always ask questions and share their feelings about treatment options. Dr. Christman has most likely had experience about that treatment and can explain everything so that you are fully informed about everything.

Once I was officially diagnosed with PCOS, Dr. Christman proposed that we try several cycles of Clomiphene (Clomid) as I was not ovulated regularly on my own. Clomid would make me ovulate and we did several cycles of timed intercourse. Although I did ovulate, we did not get pregnant, and Dr. Christman proposed we try Letrozole since some women respond better to this drug. I did ovulate on letrazole for several cycles and these cycles also failed. We went on to clomid with an added hcg trigger shot (to force ovulation once the follicle or follicles were mature enough to be released) and eventually added in more monitoring with beginning, mid, and end of cycle ultrasounds. We also most recently tried follistim injections with an hcg injection for 3 cycles, along with very frequent monitoring (bloodwork throughout the cycle, sometimes as frequent as every other day to check my estrogen levels and progesterone and ultrasounds to monitor follicle size). I liked that Dr. Christman tried the least invasive, simple treatments first and methodically went on to prescribe different treatments based on results from the previous cycle. Unfortunately, we have never gotten a positive pregnancy test, but I never doubted that Dr. Christman's treatment plans were the problem.

I usually paid between $35-40 for office visits, and bloodwork was free with my insurance. I typically paid $50 for clomid and around the same for Letrozole, and medroxyprogesterone was about $10. When doing the follistim injections (3 cycles) I spent about $70 for each vial of the medication, and over those cycles probably spent around $250 dollars. During the most recent cycles, there was much more frequent monitoring with ultrasounds that were $40 each visit, so I would usually pay around $200 per cycle.

Not applicable, we have not done IVF.

Dr. Christman is hard to communicate with. He always interrupts when you are trying to talk to him or ask him a question. I was frustrated because he "made" us do IUIS with less than 2% chance of them working.

Only see him if you do not want to talk and want the doctor to talk over you

He had us do 2 iuis with clomid and no monitoring. With our male factor issues this was a huge waste of money for a 2% chance it would work. He did this because he said once he had a patient get pregnant with a sperm count of 300,000 so he thought we might too though we mostly wanted to move to IVF.

IUI was pretty affordable there. Less than 1000 each time. However we did not use injectables or do any monitoring to confirm ovulation per the doctor.

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The best way to describe him, is Jolly. He is always happy and a pleasure to be around. You can tell he loves his job. He is very thorough and explains things with detail. He makes you feel like you are his only patient at that time.

He likes to talk. :)

250 of follistim for 8 days of stims. 250 of Ganirelix the last 4 days of stims. 75 on menopur the last 4 days of stims. Hcg trigger 10,000

$9500 for IVf cycle. $4500 for medications