Hi everyone
I have been trying to follow one of the existing threads on Dr Shehata's patients but it seems that none are accepting new messages.
I have an appointment with him on the 22nd of February and I am still unsure as to whether he's the right person to see. I have read people's experiences with Dr Quenby, Dr Gorgy, Dr Taranissi and Dr Yau Thum and I am still in two minds about who to see.
The issue with us is slightly complicated which is why I don't think that a fertility/IVF specialist will be the right choice.
We have a healthy 4 year old boy who was conceived spontaneously and I had no problems whatsoever with my pregnancy with him (being 35 at the time)
However it took us 15 months to conceive baby #2, which we lost at 20 weeks for yet unexplained reasons. I have since lost 2 more pregnancies around the 9 week mark, both of whom gave us good early scans with heart beats, both of whom were conceived relatively quickly.
I have been seen at St Mary's already and have tested negative for all their autoimmune, blood clotting testing; did a hysteroscopy (all clear), a 3D SIS scan (again clear) and a ovary reserve/follicle count which appears to be quite high so no problems there. My husband's semen analysis appears to be normal too.
Only recently and by my own insistence to see an endocrinologist, I discovered that my thyroid function is abnormal and was diagnosed to have an auto immune compensated hypothyroidism, so I have been put on 50mcg of thyroxine daily, selenium and folate. Having said that, my TSH levels were pretty normal during the last pregnancy and before then so I am not entirely sure that an endocrinology related problem may have caused the miscarriages, or whether the consecutive pregnancies messed up my thyroid.
Having said that, I am turning 40 in a couple of months and the last consultant that saw us in UCLH basically said that "we'd better get on with it and fast" as time is not in our favor- if we want to have another child. Incidentally, there are no more tests offered by any NHS hospital/clinic in London that I haven't done and that they can refer me to do....So looking into Natural Killer Cells is the only thing left to do- privately.
We are totally depleted with the 3 year vicious cycle of ttc, miscarriages, investigations, more ttc, more miscarriages and zero confidence that any future attempts are going to be successful- given my medical history and age.
Someone who has been treated successfully by Taranissi said to me that since conception is not my problem, I shouldn't be looking in any of the "top guns" of the IVF private clinics and that I should really be focusing on miscarriage specialists, such as Shehata or Quenby.
But on the other hand, everyone seems to be looking into the NKCs theory and to be doing different sort of testing on it....
Apologies in advance for the very long post by I am slightly at my wit's end and very lost as to who to see privately- as neither time nor money is of unlimited supply! My husband has pretty much given up on the idea of another attempt so I would need to have pretty good arguments to convince him to give it another go....
Really looking forward to hearing from somebody on this.
Thanks ladies
Anna
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