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I've always thought of IUI for sperm with a bad sense of direction. LOL They pretty much just stuck the sperm where it needs to go so that it has a better chance of arrival at an egg. I think our doc said it would be around $500 for each session. The $2000 might be for doc visits and tests and maybe multiple IUIs?

My husband and I both came back with every thing normal/perfect in our testing and we were diagnosed with unexplained infertility. I've always had normal cycles and assumed ovulation every month. We had been trying for over a year before we went to the doctor, not testing for ovulation but making sure to do the deed around the right time. After our first doc visit we spent 3 months doing detailed tracking of ovulation as part of the doctors orders and thankfully the 3rd cycle worked. (We had scheduling conflicts and vacations that delayed testing and appointments)

I actually had my BFP the night before our appointment to make a plan of going forward including IUI.

Also if you were doing clomid that means you have issues ovulating right? So I wouldn't say you have unexplained fertility there's something going on there. But you also might have better luck doing your clomid cycles with IUI. Maybe talk to your first doc about adding in IUI?

I had similar diagnosis with secondary infertility. Unexplained. Clomid and femara did not work for 3-4 cycles. They tried limited monitoring but couldn't see any big enough to pull trigger shots on those days I was monitored.

I went to an RE and he also suggested IUI. Sperm was fine but iui helps the best ones go through the hurdles and gives it an extra boost to find the egg. However my RE didn't just do IUI without anything. We did injection shots (gonal f), multiple and consecutive days of monitoring to see the growth of the follicles, and when they thought it was big enough, the trigger shot and iui procedure. They also recommended back to back iui for maximum chances. My follicles took forever to grow and with consecutive monitoring, they were able to be patient and see the best timing. With clomid and femera, if the "average" window of time passed and your follicles were not big enough, that was that and nothing else was done. At the RE, they adjusted the medication as necessary to make sure follicles were growing. The iui worked and now my second is a crazy 19 month old.

Our insurance didn't cover these procedures. Everything was out of pocket and each time I went into be monitored, it was couple of hundred of dollars. The iui procedure was also around $600. We prob spent around $3000 for the whole thing. The only benefit of our insurance was that the medication cost wasn't too bad. I was told the gonal f injections could be in the thousands but ours was only $75.