By

Caroline Fiddler
IVF medication schedule and treatment instructions laid out on a desk with tablets, handwritten notes, and fertility medications during a treatment cycle.
I have given injections in emergency departments. I have inserted intravenous lines into necks and chests for chemotherapy. I have drained fluid from abdomens and lungs, done core biopsies of liver tissue and breast lumps, inserted urinary catheters, performed autopsies. I spent years in pathology dissecting specimens. Then came the day I had to give...
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You’ve done the research. You’ve attended the appointments. You feel as prepared as anyone can be. Then your first cycle starts, and it feels nothing like what you imagined. No amount of preparation fully captures what it’s like to live it. Not because anything has gone wrong. Because the gap between reading about IVF and...
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I never planned to build an app. I am a doctor. I know how to read a protocol, follow instructions, manage complexity. I have done it professionally for years. And yet, sitting on my kitchen floor surrounded by printed sheets from three different clinics, medication boxes with handwritten notes, and a calendar that no longer...
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By Dr. Caroline Fiddler  |  Doctor, IVF Patient, Co-founder of CycleGuide I still remember the night I realised I had taken my morning medication twice. I sat on the bathroom floor holding the packet, going over everything in my head, trying to work out how it happened. I had read the instructions. I had set...
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