Recommendation for a London Fertility Clinic

Please avoid CRGH. The treatment we received was exceptionally bad in terms of customer service and bedside manner. I really do regret the time and money wasted there. We have moved clinics and whilst the results are still not what we would have hoped for, the entire process has been far more bearable.

Hi ladies, im with husband desperate to have twins. Do you know the private clinics in London doing this IVF and approximate cost of treatment ? How long the waiting list? Thank you in advance

Would not recommend Lister Hospital. Not what was expected. I went to Lister hospital for egg freezing. I had Dr Jaya Parikh who performed the surgery. On the cycle I was due to start, my follicles were low compared to the previous cycle. I was concerned but Dr Parikh seemed very commercial and money driven and persuaded me that l never know if the next cycle is going to be good cycle in terms of higher number of follicles. So l went ahead. She also said there was a polyp in my uterus that needs to be removed. In fact l never had a polyp and Dr Parikh proliferated and the dialator went through my uterus and l had to do an emergency laporoscopy to check for internal bleeding. I also only had 2 eggs retrieved. Very disappointing. I went to private thinking that I will get better service but please be cautious. I was otherwise healthy now l have scars from laporoscopy and a damaged uterus. Be warned of Dr Parikh, she is not good doctor, and she became very defensive, no apology at all from her. My social life I want to write this, so that other patients do not go through what l did. I also asked for refund and they refused to give me back the £5.8k I spent on the egg freezing. My social life is taken a bad turn as a result.

Hi miraivan,
I recommend looking at hfea for published success results of all clinics. I would recommend CRGH in London who get great results and I have found their treatment very good. Dr Ozturk is very nice and explains everything clearly.
Good luck :)

Can anyone help me with recommending the best fertility doctor and hospital please. We have been trying for 5months so I am starting to get worried. Thanks

Hi guys, my name is Adam me and my partner are patients at HSFC we can't believe what we are reading, we have wanted a baby for many years and been to many clinics and have to say that Dr G Venkat and her team in our eyes are amazing, we went there a few months ago for a consultation and they was so welcoming caring and professional, we had a very long consultation, with the DRs and they outlined every possible detail, we came from Birmingham to visit the clinic, they worked around our busy diary, after the consult, we had bloods taken and all the tests needed, myself and partner had semen test all there on the same day, which was fine and great, everything was in order we even got to see the sperm for ourself under the microscope it was really cool, our surrogate also had her tests on the same day and scan, she had her coil removed, and was put on the pill, we then filled out a form for and egg donor, and with 2-3wks the clinic had found us some to go through, we selected one who unfortunately pulled out a week later, we then found another egg donor, and she responded really well with the treatment and so did our surrogate, there now both ready, and our egg collection is tomorrow morning, we are so excited:) I will let you all know how she gets on and how many mature eggs we get, but so far everything has been great, I we couldn't recommend the clinic enough, they are very hopeful and honest they was very on the ball with tests, bloods, treatment and scans, and very precise with consent forms, also why visiting the clinic on many occasions, we have scene many happy people leaving there with positive pregnancy tests, scans and even twins I'm very sorry for the people that didn't have a nice experience there and I would say to anybody considering clinic to just go there have a consultation and make your mind up from there xxx

hi ladies ,i am about to attend london fertility clinic next week and i am not sure is my best choice ,any recommendation pls ???

After one unsuccessful IVF cycle, I have decided to change doctors in favor of someone with familiarity with immune issue and implantation. I have seen Dr. Taranissi and Dr. Yao Thum at the Lister. I feel really excited about Dr. Taranissi, but am a little intimidated by the monitoring tests every day.

Can anyone share their experiences pro and con about either of these?

Thanks,
EEMME

Hi Madigan,

I have had one IVF cycle (including a try with frozen blastocysts), with CRM and although i did get pregnant, I had early MC both times. While I don't think this is their fault, I am switching to the Lister next time as they have an immunology specialist. It depends on what you are looking for but the Lister gets very good reviews by all.

Yes. We were on the list and because of the long wait they recommended we try IUI while we waited. I had 'unexplained sub-fertility' so IUI was relatively inexpensive, uninvasive and worked first time. I can't recommend Guy's highly enough!

Thanks all. So Warmfuzzy are you still allowed to stay on the NHS waiting list at Guys if you also at the same time pay for IVF at Guys ? Does it reder your IVF NHS place invalid do you know ?
Really appreciate the feedback.

The Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's and St Thomas' is wonderful. Prof Braude and his team are really great. We were on the waiting list for IVF but paid for IUI in 2003 while waiting and that worked first time. Funding for IVF was approved for 2004/05 but by then we already had DS1 so didn't need it anymore (and weren't eligable).

I went to the Bridge for IUI. No problems there - dd is now 17mo. But I'm not a good test case for you. I don't have problems getting pg - but am single hence need for help. I would say that it's good to go somewhere convenient though. It's all very stressful and minimising stress is good.

caz20 we had consultations at the Bridge, ARGC & Lister.

Bridge was most convenient for us & we had some investigations there but moved to the ARGC for treatment. Personally I found the Bridge to be a nightmare administratively and we weren't happy with their billing, since we didn't have treatment I can't really comment further but they weren't particularly flexible either.

Hi Again
I have just posted a message about IVF clinics in London.
Has anyone had any experience of The London Bridge Fertility Clinic ? This is really handy for mine and my partners office. Not sure this should be the defining factor in the decision but I can't help thinking that the less stress the better.
Thanks

Hi

I am about to embark on IVF - ICIS in London. There is a 1-2 year waiting list at Guy & St Thomas so I have been advised to go private funds allowing.
I am going to or want to stay on the NHS waiting list though as my funds are not unlimited.
Does this mean I cannot try to use the IVF service at Guys / or Univercity College Hospital ( not NHS funded ) and pay as I am on the NHS waiting list for Guys ? I guess you have to come off the waiting list if you are prepared to pay for treatment especially if its at the same hospital....
Also I am looking at the Lister and this seems to be getting good feedback.
I have had all my exploration tests and have written to my GP to get copies of all the records so don't get charged private rates too for the same tests. The ARGC have some bad press although good results.
Any advice ????

Bella

Just checking up on you. Hope you don't mind. Did you go to the open evening - if I remember right it was the first Monday of the month so that is probably tonight. I am praying that everything will work out well for you and your DH in the New Year.

Lister is good, but if you want to go the Self funding route ( slightly cheaper than private and if you are eligible for NHS but dont want to wait, most of the Lister consultants do NHS work at the Chelsea & Westminster. Carole Gilling Smith runs the ACU, but I have seen Sam Abdullah there. It did take me a long time to have DS but my DH had real sperm problems, we did nine attempts at icsi 1st succesful, but had a mc.) We eventually used donor sperm and had DS first attempt at IVF. They are lovely staff and I am currently doing my second IVF attempt at C&W. I agree about Prof Ian Craft and I have heard things about him and Taranassi, which I couldn't repeat here but worrying.

I went to the ACU at UCH. I'm very blessed to have a nearly 2 year old son from our first cycle. We then had another cycle earlier this year which sadly failed and then October which was our third cycle. Am no spring chicken, am 40 now.

Good to read about some acupuncture fans! I had about 6 weekly sessions with Daniel and then on the day of transfer I saw him just before and just after embryo transfer. Then, since I had the positive pg test, I have been seeing him every two weeks. This was our best ever cycle in terms of egg quality and embryo quality. We had 80% fertilisation which is extraordinary given our severe male factor - embyologist was really quite stunned. Curiously, I have never been so chilled out and relaxed as I was on the day of the transfer which I do put down to the acupuncture - it was DH who had to be scraped off the ceiling. Here's a reference to the German study and protocol, if you haven't seen it already. IVF and acupuncture