Hubby and I decided to seek the help of a specialist once again due to the excruciating abdominal pain I had on the 26th of this month and last night I was also feeling the pain again but this time it's more tolerable. I'm afraid it's the endemetriosis, the initial diagnosis of the last endo-repro doctor I visited in the Philippines weeks before I came here in Singapore.
So I searched the net for possible infertility doctors. My eyes almost popped out when I found out the consultation fees! Dr Wong Peng Cheang is a fellow of PSREI or Philippine Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Incorporated. I was thinking if he's a fellow in a Philippine organization maybe he would be easier to consult. His fee is around SGD168 for the first consultation and SGD88++ for succeeding visits. These excludes all tests that he'll be doing. S$168 = Php5.5k++!!! Gosh! It was soooo expensive!! That's why I checked on Dr Ann Tan which I read in some forums. She seemed to be popular and can be compared to the likes of Dr. Eileen Manalo in the Phil. It said that the queue is quite long and would take you hours before you get your turn and sometimes she doesn't encourage questions from patients. I shoot an inquiry about her fees and I almost fell from where I'm sitting! S$170 consultation fee and S$130 ultrasound test! Whhuuuuaaaatttt???? Is this for real? And if you're a private patient you're still charged with GST tax of 7%. So the total would be more that Php6k?!
Now, I'm angry and hated the situation I am in. Why is it so expensive? I should have completed all my tests in the Philippines so that I don't have to do this here. And in the first place, why am I having this infertility problems? Why??? Urgh!
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