My Doctor knows that I’m off overseas on the 17 August for a holiday, so we scheduled this appointment just before I leave to get my first dose of drugs.  I have to start a nasal spray on the second week of my holidays, and I also have to pay the first instalment of the IVF treatment.  I have also been told that I might be up for a few additional costs for medication if regular blood tests prove that I need extra help along the way, but that I should expect to be paying around $4,500 per cycle, plus a whole lot of other extras (hospital & anaesthetist costs, freezing embryo’s, and of course, the donor sperm.