IVF: The Breakdown on Cost

We knew IVF would be crazy expensive, but we had no idea how expensive it would be for ME! Here is the breakdown of our first IVF cycle:
Anesthesiology: $400
Surgery Center Fee: $2,257.84
Austin IVF Fee: $5,750.00
Texas Fertility Center: $1,785.00
(Re-fills of Follistim: $2, 157.00)
**The above fees were due at the end of the IVF cycle. We actually never had to pay any of those big fees because we never made it to egg retrieval or egg transfer. So that $10,192.84 was still in the bank for us to use for the 2nd IVF.

What we paid out of pocket for labs, ultrasounds, and injections:
10-21: $40.00
11-5: $72.00
11-8 $2,282.00 (first shipment of meds and injections)
11-10: $113.80 (injections)
11-17: $20.40
11-24: $110.00
11-24: $163.99
11-20: $20.40
12-3: $2,157.00 (injections)
12-6: $190.00
All of this adds up to $5,169.59. If we had made it to egg retrieval and transfer, our grand total would have been $15,362.43. UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!! So we knew what we were going to have to pay for the 2nd IVF. We also knew that I would have to add more medications to stimulate my ovaries more. Se we were estimating the 2nd IVF would be close to $18,000. A little stressful.