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hi all,
am been married for 4 yrs. havnt even conceived once. met dr vasan at manipal hospital recently. he said normal prenency not possible as my husband has low motality. only IUI or IVF possible. but now my after having read so many reviews abt doctors in bangalore, am thinking of getting treated in chennai. can u recommend good fertility docs in chennai. nageshreddy8 replied. Plz dont go no use except spoil u r life nageshreddy8 at gmail hi hi replied. Hi, I see you are looking up for a good ivf centre in chennai. Do not rush yourself to any one particular hospital like i did, take your time to do proper research about that hospital before you start treatment. Here im copying you below a reply to another friends query and my personal experience, hope it would help and wish you all the best.



Name: hi
Subject: info for ivf in chennai
Date: 2011-12-07
Hi, i see you are looking up for a good ivf centre in chennai. I came from US to chennai in 2010 for IVF. I didnt have anyones proper advice for a good centre, thought every centre might be the same and went to ishwarya clinic in adyar and had the worst treatment that i would never forget in my life. More than time and money the pain that we go through when it fails is very intense. Later i was guided to Dr.Sarat in Apollo hospital in greams road chennai where i had ICSI which is similar to IVF and it was successful. Now im a tired but a happy mom :) of my twin sons.
It is upto you to choose a hospital but before going through IVF carefully look for these few points.

1.First, see whether they do IVF or ICSI in batches if so do not even bother to make an appointment with that doctor. Every ones body reacts different to the medicine when they do in batches they try to make you ovulate according to their convenient date which doesnt work. I usually ovulate little late, in ishwarya clinic they tried to push me to a earlier date and finally they got just two eggs during egg collections where as in apollo they dont do in batches so the doctor waited till my follicles were in good size to go thro the treatment and it worked out great.

2.Secondly, see if the fertility centre has any branches if so avoid that centre. During the follicular study there might be different situations every day so the doctor must be there everyday to see your report in person. In ishwarya fertility centre in Adyar, Dr.Chandraleka is a very busy woman as she has branches in pazhani, coimbatore, chennai, and new one recently opened in Madurai. During my follicular study she was in some other city so the other doctor use to call her up asking for the medicine dosage and solution for any problems. The doctor was available only twice before the treatment and she doesnt talk properly or try to clear my doubts, all her answers were rude. Ones she was talking to her travel agent while she was doing TV-Scan which was down right rude and not a good manner for a doctor. In Apollo the doctor was there everyday and whenever something appeared to be wrong in the scan he would do a double check on the scan and would suggest the rightful solution.

3.If the doctor suggest you to go through any laproscopy or any other treatment before IVF or ICSI or IUI you try to get some second advice from some other doctor before you go through it. Again in ishwarya fertility centre Dr.Chandraleka made me to get a diagnostic Laproscopy which later i was told was completely unwanted. When i asked her if this is necessary as i was completely fine her answer was not informative rather she asked me whether im ready to take chances. This would commonly happen in many fertility clinics so be aware of that.

4.See if they are providing you with the proper papers when they do the treatment. In Ishwarya i was not given a single piece of paper of my follicular study or the Egg collection or the embryo transfer process. I was not told how many embryos were going to be transfered, when i asked the doctor during the transfer she said why are you bothered about it. Later after transfering she enquried from a nurse and told me 1 embryo. More than the number of embryos when she asked the nurse for the number after transfering it into me gave me the ultimate shock. In apollo they gave me a clear record of the treatment and the medicine and the dosage of it. After my egg collection i was introduced to my embryologist who would let you know of the number and the development of the embryos. After my transfer i was given clear papers of the transfer and also the picture of the embryos transfered :)

5.Infrastructure is very important. In Ishwarya fertility clinic, Adyar there werent enough beds when they did the treatment in batches. They had 5-6 beds while there were 20-25 in every batch they did.

This is all my personal experience in both the places. Wherever you choose try to go through these points before you go through the treatment because more than the physical pain, the pain in the heart is too much to bear when the ivf fails. But do not give up hope, second try was my lucky one.... hope your second try would be lucky too. All the best!

Gv replied. Hey i lived in Bangalore and I know a lot of friends of mine who successfully had an IUI or IVF. Its the right place to be.
I am going through this journey for hte past 3 years and in my experience IUI should always be the first option. Try it and you may get lucky ..all the best...