IVM????

I was catching up on my google reader today and it started to think about whether there were things like trials or testing that i could look into to maybe get treatment for a reduced price or even free. While searching i came across something called IVM and so i looked into it and it was really interesting.

IVM, in vitro maturation, is like IVF but tailored for PCOS patients, PCOS gives you a higher chance of OHSS, ovarian hypostimulation syndrome, which can be very serious and most of the time needs a hospital stay and a halt in treatment, so this IVM eliminates this. Unlike IVF there are no drugs before egg retrieval apart from one 36 hours before. This is because they retrieve unmatured eggs and then mature them in the lab, then when they have matured for a day or 2 they will remove the hard shell that will have formed and by using ICSI,  intracytoplasmic sperm injection, they fertilise the eggs like with IVF and transfer the one or 2 back to the womb. After the egg retrieval you have to use progesterone suppositories like you would with IVF but that's about all the drugs needed. I also read about the first babies born from this treatment, they were a set o twins from oxford, again the UK beat the world like with the IVF, (please don't take offence rest of the world) and they said it was like a £95 IVF cycle. It didn't explain the whole cost involved but even if that was just for the drugs that's a load cheaper then the £1500 for drugs and being stuck with needles everyday. The only way i could find the price was going onto the oxford fertility unit site but you have to download the adobe package and no mater how many times i tried it never happened so i am still not sure how much it will cost. I was thinking of taking this information with me when i go to the doctors and asking if they had any information on it and if it was available to me or where its available if i cant be funded. Even if it half the price that knocks it down from £4500 to £2250 which means there are more chances of success with more cycles.

I wonder if anyone else has more information on this????