Patient guide
Questions to Ask at Your Fertility Consultation
A checklist of important questions to ask your fertility specialist at your first consultation and at key stages of treatment.
First Consultation
- ☐ What investigations do I need before starting treatment?
- ☐ What is the likely cause of our difficulty conceiving?
- ☐ What treatment do you recommend and why?
- ☐ What is the estimated success rate for someone with my profile?
- ☐ How many cycles do you recommend before considering more advanced treatment?
- ☐ What lifestyle changes should I make before starting?
- ☐ What supplements should I be taking?
Before Starting IVF / IUI
- ☐ What protocol will you use and why is it right for me?
- ☐ How many monitoring scans will be needed?
- ☐ Will I need to take time off work? How many days?
- ☐ What will the medication cost in addition to the procedure fee?
- ☐ Do you recommend fresh or frozen embryo transfer? Why?
- ☐ Do you recommend genetic testing of embryos (PGT-A)?
After a Failed Cycle
- ☐ What went well? What can be improved?
- ☐ How many eggs were retrieved, fertilised, and made it to blastocyst?
- ☐ Should we change the stimulation protocol?
- ☐ Should we investigate endometrial receptivity (ERA test)?
- ☐ Should we check sperm DNA fragmentation?
- ☐ At what point should we consider donor eggs?
About Success Rates
- ☐ What is your clinic's live birth rate per embryo transfer?
- ☐ What is your cancellation rate?
- ☐ What is your success rate for women my age with my AMH?