After running from pillar to post, visiting so many doctors within a
month's time, we zeroed in on Manipal Hospital Bangalore (MHB) with high
hopes. Actually, we heard about MHB on radio while driving on one of
the "doctor hopping" days. They had a dedicated ART/ IVF Dept and talked
about good success rates; plus they had Dr.Bina Vasan & Dr. Vasan S.S., Urologist-Andrologist as their Team Lead.
We first met with the Uro-Andrologist in Nov' 12 to discuss my DH's Severe Oligospermia and Bilateral Varicocele Grade III and see if his suggestion was any different. He gave us enough time to understand all the reports and our fears, then prescribed two medicines for one month time period, namely Paternia and Wysolone to boost the sperm production. He asked us to do a Semen Analysis (SA) test before starting the medicines and come back with a fresh SA test after taking a month's dose. He also asked us to discuss the way forward with his wife, Dr. Bina Vasan, ART Specialist.
We met Dr. Bina Vasan, asked about the IVF procedures, their costs, etc. We were given in-depth information about all of it by her Assistant, Dr. Manju Nair. As a norm, MHB asks all their new ART patients to do expensive tests of HIV, HCV, HBsAg, VDRL, ELISA for both the partners before going ahead with any treatment. In the next consultation, they wrote down few more tests like Inhibin B and CASA for the male partner and a procedure called Hysteroscopy for the female partner.
After meeting the doctor couple, our dimming hopes got new flight. We felt that we are in safe hands, and this might be the positivity that we were looking for. Their enthusiasm and involvement gave us confidence.
DH reports of SA in Nov'12, were just the same as conducted in Sep and Oct' 12 in the previous few "doctor hopping" visits (all of them were reputed clinics, so scope of error wasn't much) although done in different lab.
They planned my hysteroscopy procedure in Dec' 12. Later, many doctors confirmed that conducting a hysteroscopy even before starting with an ART treatment isn't the best thing to do; makes more sense to be done after a few failed IUI/IVF attempts.
More about hysteroscopy and our journey in my next post.
We first met with the Uro-Andrologist in Nov' 12 to discuss my DH's Severe Oligospermia and Bilateral Varicocele Grade III and see if his suggestion was any different. He gave us enough time to understand all the reports and our fears, then prescribed two medicines for one month time period, namely Paternia and Wysolone to boost the sperm production. He asked us to do a Semen Analysis (SA) test before starting the medicines and come back with a fresh SA test after taking a month's dose. He also asked us to discuss the way forward with his wife, Dr. Bina Vasan, ART Specialist.
We met Dr. Bina Vasan, asked about the IVF procedures, their costs, etc. We were given in-depth information about all of it by her Assistant, Dr. Manju Nair. As a norm, MHB asks all their new ART patients to do expensive tests of HIV, HCV, HBsAg, VDRL, ELISA for both the partners before going ahead with any treatment. In the next consultation, they wrote down few more tests like Inhibin B and CASA for the male partner and a procedure called Hysteroscopy for the female partner.
After meeting the doctor couple, our dimming hopes got new flight. We felt that we are in safe hands, and this might be the positivity that we were looking for. Their enthusiasm and involvement gave us confidence.
DH reports of SA in Nov'12, were just the same as conducted in Sep and Oct' 12 in the previous few "doctor hopping" visits (all of them were reputed clinics, so scope of error wasn't much) although done in different lab.
They planned my hysteroscopy procedure in Dec' 12. Later, many doctors confirmed that conducting a hysteroscopy even before starting with an ART treatment isn't the best thing to do; makes more sense to be done after a few failed IUI/IVF attempts.
More about hysteroscopy and our journey in my next post.
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