I went to Shady Grove in 2010 and my husband and we went through all their testing. We were diagnosed as unexplained infertility and were recommended for IUI. After the 3rd failed IUIs, Dr. Kiperstok was pushing us into IVF. We were not impressed with him because he never remembered my husband's named, always had to look at his computer to see how many cycles we did, etc., told us there were no improvements we could do to our lifestyle to help us conceive, and he called me with another person's lab results. We should've left then but we did one more IUI which failed and took the summer off to decide what to do next. We decided to go ahead and do IVF. I had a decent cycle producing 10 eggs that were collected but only 4 were mature which I think was due to Dr. Kiperstok not controlling my medication doses correctly. I feel like I was triggered too early based on a lot of research I did after the fact. One fertilized abnormally which I think was due to the fault of the lab because we weren't given any other explaination other than 2 sperm entered the egg. This seemed odd considering we did ICSI where only one sperm can be inserted into the egg. 2 ended up being fertilized and I was told personally by Dr. Kiperstok that they were of excellent quality. We were also told by the doctor doing the transfer and the embryologist that the embryos were excellent quality. They transfered the 2 but resulted in a failed cycle. On the follow up, Dr. Kiperstok tried to insensitively push donor egg on us with the reason being egg quality. I asked him how this could be considering he told me the embryos were excellent quality. He stumbled for words and fumbled out some words implying that he didn't want to give me bad news during my cycle. He continued to push donor egg as I was unresponsive. He very insensitively started looking up donors that had my physical characteristics and turning the computer screen for me to see. I was in shock at the lack of compassion and lack of regard for our feelings. Needless to say, I am no longer a patient of Shady Grove after that follow up because of Dr. Kiperstok. I requested my medical records and they were conveniently incomplete because there was no information whatsoever on my embryos or an embryologist report. Upon takling to another RE, I was told they need to give my my full records so she can look at everything that was done during my cycle. I'm now in the process of fighting with them over getting my complete records. The whole experience with Shady Grove and Dr. Kiperstok has been a nightmare.
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