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Originally Posted by L-SBB
i was wondering the exact same thing....and wondering if i exist in a little bit of a bubble with my RE b/c i'm not paying anything right now other than co-pays for all of the monitoring they're doing during my cycle. The trigger shot & clomid were both cheap - maybe $30-40 combined? So the difference is i'm not doing IUI...and I don't understand why combining in a trigger shot + 1 or 2 u/s would be such a huge jump in price....unless your insurance is covering nothing at all from a monitoring perspective?
Anyway, if the cost is essentially the same, i'd do the trigger shot - it's nice to have a little more monitoring & control of ovulation (speaking as someone who missed O last cycle and couldn't then use the trigger shot)...but if it's really hundreds of dollars more I'd probably skip the trigger shot.
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my insurance covers nothing. At my RE's office, monitoring visits are $170, IUI is $180(+ $90 for the sperm wash), trigger you have to get at the pharmacy downstairs, but it's $85, and clomid you have to get at the pharmacy as well, and I know it was $27 for my last dose. Standard cycle is 1 monitoring + 1-2 IUI appointments, but of course it varies based on an individual case(the least amount of monitoring I have had is 1, the most 5).