@Lily1990 - really happy to help 😊 I was under Prof Quinnby under Tommys. I moved over to Tommys after my two MC because I wanted all the grief I’ve had to help someone. This means I’ve also had Doxycycline (not tried since this it was only last month), because that’s something she feels might help some women and all my tests had come back fine.
She said with my history she would like me to have one but couldn’t because the NHS wait times are so long.
Whats interesting about Quinnby is that she isn’t someone who dismisses NK cells, she just said she doesn’t think that, that was my problem. And so for me it might cause more harm. I had my 5th miscarriage under her, but it’s not that much of a shock because nothing had changed so to speak. I had progesterone and that’s it, but the three pregnancies I’ve had have last longer and developed further then when I was on NK treatment. The 5th MC was in the second trimester and I saw a heart beat 3 times, but for me it just wasn’t growing properly, and this has been the case for the two miscarriages I have had scans for that have shown something on the screen. (1st was at 7ish weeks by no scans, two under NK Protocol were both around 6 weeks, the other two were both between 10-14 weeks).
I then had my hysteroscopy under Prof Regan in London. Essentially by this point I’d been on the NHS waitlist for 6 months and heard nothing. I picked Regan because I’d seen loads of interviews with her and she just seemed super knowledgeable.
She also thought I should do a hysteroscopy, and because I was private I was able to have this done by her, within 6 weeks.
The total cost of this was between £3,000 and £4,000. It was 2x consultation fees with her - £300 each. £2,700 for the surgery. And just under £200 for the anaesthetist.
The reason they both wanted me to have one is because I had testing on one of my miscarriage which came back negative and I had literally nothing in bloods other than low vitamin D (which I’m now on a supplement for).
They both said that things can get missed on ultrasound scans because of the nature of them. They’re grainy and hard to see. Having an internal scan removes that and so it allows them to know for sure one way or the other and it was sort of the only thing left… I was running out of options.
Regarding my NK results, I can’t remember of the top of my head (sorry!) but there were two and one came back normal according to his range and the other came back elevated but not like astronomically elevated.
I personally always think it’s worth getting a second opinion if you have concerns. But I just want to say again, he definitely does help people, so this wasn’t meant to be a bitch about him and his work or NK cells, just a general, if you have concerns definitely don’t worry about getting a second opinion, because maybe it will help. Maybe it won’t, but I am glad to have had this ruled out now.