Re: & Poly: Addition of A list docs in NYC - long

[Guest guest]

Lori,

Could I ask you a huge favor? Could you check with Dr. Olive to see

whether he knows of and would include a Dr. Spandorfer from

Cornell( same place as Dr. Shattman) on the A list.

This was the doctor I had done ivf with.

Thanks so much,

Myra

[Guest guest]

Lori,

Could I ask you a huge favor? Could you check with Dr. Olive to see

whether he knows of and would include a Dr. Spandorfer from

Cornell( same place as Dr. Shattman) on the A list.

This was the doctor I had done ivf with.

Thanks so much,

Myra

[Guest guest]

Myra,

I will e-mail Dr. Olive and let you know what he says. If you want

to contact him directly his e-mail address is lapskyboy@... .

Did your IVF work with Dr. Spandorfer? I would personally feel

comfortable with any of the doctors at CRMI, but they all have their

individual specialties. For Asherman's, however I would only go with

an experienced surgeon that has performed many Asherman's surgeries.

The entire group has an excellent repuation, and I know that they

often work as a team.

If you read his profile, however, Dr. Spandorfer does not mention

that uterine surgeries is his specialty. Here is his web profile:

http://www.ivf.org/spandorfer.html - this makes me suspect. Dr.

Schattman, at the same facility, mentions in his profile that he is

an expert in surgeries. It says " Dr. Schattman is particularly

experienced in advanced methods of correcting common causes of

infertility including blocked fallopian tubes, adhesions or scar

tissue, endometriosis and ovarian cysts " . Here is the link :

http://www.ivf.org/schattman.html

I'm sure Dr. Spandorfer is a skilled doctor, but he may not be the

one to go to for a uterine surgery. This is just my personal opinion.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

-Lori

[Guest guest]

Myra,

I will e-mail Dr. Olive and let you know what he says. If you want

to contact him directly his e-mail address is lapskyboy@... .

Did your IVF work with Dr. Spandorfer? I would personally feel

comfortable with any of the doctors at CRMI, but they all have their

individual specialties. For Asherman's, however I would only go with

an experienced surgeon that has performed many Asherman's surgeries.

The entire group has an excellent repuation, and I know that they

often work as a team.

If you read his profile, however, Dr. Spandorfer does not mention

that uterine surgeries is his specialty. Here is his web profile:

http://www.ivf.org/spandorfer.html - this makes me suspect. Dr.

Schattman, at the same facility, mentions in his profile that he is

an expert in surgeries. It says " Dr. Schattman is particularly

experienced in advanced methods of correcting common causes of

infertility including blocked fallopian tubes, adhesions or scar

tissue, endometriosis and ovarian cysts " . Here is the link :

http://www.ivf.org/schattman.html

I'm sure Dr. Spandorfer is a skilled doctor, but he may not be the

one to go to for a uterine surgery. This is just my personal opinion.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

-Lori

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much Lori. I thought you might get an earlier response from

Dr. Olive because he knows you.

The ivf at Cornell was successful (the 2nd time). It's hard to

attribute that to one surgeon since they all work as an ivf team

there. So you have a different doctor everyday depending on who is

assigned that day.

Dr. Spandorfer had been my physician who did that initial consult to

then get into that ivf program. He's been pretty nice about helping

me out, and was the one who suggested that I investigate whether this

is Ashermans. I feel very comfortable with him as a doctor, but I

want to make sure I go to somebody with Asherman experience. When I

had asked him he said he's done this before and scheduled me for a

lap/hys for Dec. 13th. Since that time I found this web site and the

wealth of info people have shared. That's what made me think twice

about what I was doing.

I have an initial consult with Dr. Valle in Chicago on Wed, so I

guess I can compare info. I had asked Valles's office how many

Asherman surgeries he had done, and a nurse called me back to tell me

he said to answer " many " . I don't know if many means 10 or 50,....

The ivf at Cornell resulted in a twin pregnancy which unfortunately

ended at 12 wks. I needed a d/c, and after that didn't get my period

for 6 months. A saline infusion showed a scarred uterus. So the

scarring was done here not at Cornell (for anybody who was worried

about Cornell)

Thanks again Lori for your help with Dr. Olive. I really appreciate

it.