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Hi, also VivaNeo in Leiderdorp (the ones who I visited first) refuses to do that. I am honestly wondering if this is legal. I have a referral letter from my GP, can they refuse to do the monitoring I have been prescribed??? I am seriously risking another month due to bureaucracy and I cannot travel to Belgium for the monitoring. Even if I wanted to have the IVF in the Netherlands the waiting list is tremendous... :(

Hi, Thank you all for the answers! I didn't manage as I should have started taking pills before knowing if I could do the checks... I didn't want to bet, I don't want to play with my body in this moment. I only managed to get an appointment on the 2nd of February to discuss with a doctor if I can have an appointment for the checks :( . Now in March borders with Belgium should hopefully reopen again, at least I have more time to arrange. Yes, I feel sooo frustrated... After one year of trials, I have lost other six months between call, make the first appointment, first general check, second appointment, second check, third appointment... they wanted to let me go and wait six months more because I was "in good health", I insisted to have the ovaric reserve checked and they only checked the AMH, which was "not reassuring, perhaps we should to other tests"... and then I decided to go abroad, to my expenses, to speed up this madness. And I discovered I lost a lot of time without knowing that time was the only thing I shouldn't have lost. Now that I have a solution... I found other bareers. We shouldn't do all that to get listened and cured. It was HMC Bronovo. They told me they do that but only for blood tests, not ultrasound because they are reserved to patients with are under their care due to corona (this is what they told). Of course it also depends from the doctor, Platteau is known for being ultra precise and therefore very demanding, maybe in Spain is different. He told me in advance that Dutch patients usually go to him by car for the 5-6 checks he wants before the pickup because they don't manage to get all the checks he needs in the Netherlands (in other countries you always have the "private" option), but that some of his patients managed to get something done with Bronovo, at least most of it. Pandemic has done the rest. For sure I didn't manage convince my GP to prescribe the medications and I had to pay all of them them using my doctor's prescription. I hope the insurance will reimburse them, it's quite an amount...! Thanks all for your help, it's really great not to feel alone.

Thanks a lot Paulma, I didn't know about this possibility, I've checked and my insurance allows this. I will try for next cycle, I had a full day of calls and I found no one able to ensure an ultrasound and blood test for February 5th, when I needed it. That's very bad when you feel time is running away from your hands. Thanks again!

Hi, I'm sorry if I write in English but I don't speak Dutch yet so fluently. I am an expat of almost 37yo, I started being treated in Belgium by Dott. Platteau and I need to perform monitoring here in the Netherlands due to the travel ban. Do you know a center in Den Haag that would allow me to have follicular development monitoring and hormonal blood test without waiting 2 months for a first appointment? If this is not possible I need to interrupt the current treatment and restart God knows when. I know the Dutch health system but I am wondering if there's a way to get treated, even paying, to continue what I have done before. I feel very low mood, bureaucratic barriers are even worse then hormones, aren't they? Thanks to anyone who can have a little piece of advice for me.