Money has no smell. Reality of Turkish Medicine

(Story from victim's own lips)

One woman, resident of Turkey, used methods of reproductive medicine. She told us her harrowing story of how she and 13 ill-fated women fell into hands of unscrupulous doctor who raises high money making families unhappy.

“Our family had faced with the challenge of child’s conception therefore my husband and I decided that IVF procedure is our unique and probably the last chance to become a parents. Theretofore, we tried hard; in particular we had been visiting doctors and used different methods but all our attempts were unsuccessful. During our attempts (these are 7 years of fruitless efforts) we spent a good deal of money, went to the both physical and psychological efforts. IVF procedure is rather expensive and we are simple, average family. Therefore, before contacting a doctor we had to save in our everyday life in order to accumulate the required sum. But, we did it with the thought of our future child.  Because bright advertising of reproductive medicine clinics confidently promise positive result. And finally collecting needed sum we went for consultation being in a good mood and waiting for a certain miracle. 

In the medical institution we passed all the necessary examinations, tests and we were told that in a couple of days clinic’s worker will contact us and invite to visit a doctor. Frankly speaking during these days we were so excited that could not work, eat and sleep normally. In some days we had the second meeting with our doctor and he said us all the results are normal and we can participate in the IVF program. When I asked him about the chances and guarantees he briefly replied that everything will be o.k. and we will certainly have positive result. After that there was a procedure of stimulation. I also went through it under doctor’s control. During stimulation I took a strong hormonal drug "Progenova". 

And then I was sent to Greece for the IVF procedure. As a result it turned out that there were 14 women (after stimulation as I was) who were gathered in one group and sent to Greece. There we lived in one hotel. On the one hand we were pleased that we had an opportunity to support each other and it was a little easier that in a foreign country you had your fellow citizens next to you. Passing the IVF procedure (It was rather difficult physically and morally and only thought about the future child helped) I came back home. 

Being in the hotel we all exchanged phone numbers and agreed to get in touch by phone, share results and in general continue our communication. But later it turned out that all of us (14 patients!) had the same negative result... At first I was just in shock and felt tremendous confusion but when I got to know that no one of us got pregnant my thoughts were about doctor. I phoned him in tears asking how and why such a thing could happen. But he answered calmly that it happens so and there is no his guilt. He also added that frozen donor eggs are not always of a high quality and as for the fresh material it is not easy to get it as there are no donors in Greece.

I started to look for information about the frozen oocytes in the internet and realized that the doctor tactfully concealed the fact that frozen eggs is almost a guarantee of failure procedure. Many countries use such method earning money but without positive result for patient. Among a number of articles I also find this one (http://newseurope.info/?p=12513)

But it was too late ... we spent all our money, health and psychological state were in awful condition. I cried day and night, in secret from my husband not to upset him more. When I saw on the streets small children my heart just broke. And one day my friend invited me to go shopping. I thought it will be useful for me and I will be able to forget about troubles but when friend started to visit children's shops and choose things for her year-old daughter I went off into hysterics. I just imagined that if not quackery of the doctor now I could also choose clothes and toys for our baby...

Getting back to normal emotional state and gathering money for another one attempt we decided to try once more. My husband found in the Internet Ukrainian clinic that works exclusively on fresh oocytes and guarantees 100 % success. We also found people who have already used services of this center and they told us that doctors of this clinic just work wonders and use unique methods of treatment. I had already sent them my information and Ukrainian specialists answered they could help me. I look forward to a personal meeting with the doctors of the Ukrainian center”.