Advice on my next course of action

[atomic sagebrush]

No, I don't have endemetriosis.

I've been worrying a lot that maybe this IUI is a waste of money because they told me it only has a 13% chance of working. That's like nothing, to me. I have a cat that's sick and needs surgery and if they told me he only had a 13% survival chance, I wouldn't put him through it. (The other IUI they told me only had a 7% chance of working. If they had told me that, I wouldn't even have bothered with it.)

Any opinions on whether I should just go directly to IVF if I can afford it?

I answered in more detail in your other thread but you need to compare the odds of success one vs the other with the expense involved, because you'll be able to have a lot more IUI rounds for the same price as one IVF.

FWIW I think them doing an unmonitored IUI on you without informing you of the odds of success is malpractice.

[atomic sagebrush]

Also please consider that IUI success rates are not necessarily YOUR chances. Many people who do IUI have male factor infertility or unexplained fertility. YOu will be using a donor with good sperm health and for all you know you are totally very fertile. You may have better than 13% (because that represents the success rates of those purusing IUI and not people in your specific situation, if htat makes sense.)

[CarolineSinclair]

Well he told me it had 20% chance to work, the former doctor I mean, but my current nurse told me it only had 7% chance.

It's possible I should be going to another clinic but I'm not sure all of them accept single mothers.

[atomic sagebrush]

There are so many factors that go into calculating how well an IUI might work it's all very sketchy about how accurate any of it is. In a 30 year old with a good sperm donor it can be up to 20%. 38-40 it drops to about average of 7%

There is a nice breakdown of hte numbers in this link IUI Success Rate

[atomic sagebrush]

If you scroll down on that link you can see how having a proven donor can help up your odds of success vs a couple with male factor infertility

[atomic sagebrush]

PS - just so you're aware, the success rate with IVF they are quoting numbers that seem artificially high to me and it looks to me like they are including people who had frozen eggs or embryos at younger ages and also those who used donor eggs or embryos in their numbers. Did not have time to go over it with fine tooth comb