Oh goodness! Tell me about it! I'm american living in the UK (married an Englishman). I've been here for 5 years and it's so incredibly frustrating for me. I had fantastic ongoing treatment at women's clinics in the states but coming over here the gps and consultant didn't even want to look at my 8 years of treatment. He just wanted to start all over. I told him I had been on metformin in the states and the doctors took me off it because it wasn't doing anything for me. So what did he do? Put me straight back on it and I've been on it for 4 years! Has it done anything for me? No.
When you read through this site and read some of the american side of treatments it literally crushed me. Everytime I go to my consultant with these things he doesn't want to know or shrugs them off. My cousin back in the states has PCOS and just as bad or worse than me. She loved her doctor and wished I could have seen him. Well, in these 4 years she has had surgery, treatment, gotten to see her doctor every few weeks for ongoing treatment and now has 2 kids!! I am lucky to be able to get to see my consultant once every 6 months because he has a backed up waiting list as he is the only one in the area. We've been contemplating how much it might cost us to pay out of pocket to go and have treatment in the states. At our last gp appointment where we vented out frustrations to our doctor he told us that a lot of the funding is slipping away from fertility treatments because a lot of doctors are now going to the states because the fertility care is so much better. I just want to cry!! |