Have you considered CRGH?
We were at ARGC when I conceived my DS naturally after immune treatment, but have moved to CRGH for #2.
Same experience as others here. The pregnancy monitoring was so traumatic that I had PTSD-like symptoms passing the clinic door. I was constantly given the impression I was going to miscarry because of my immune results, despite the fact my pregnancy with DS was developing normally on the weekly scans. I also had numerous HCG tests, despite now realising this is largely meaningless in a six-week pregnancy.
Although the immune treatments cured a long-running mysterious immune problem (which had kept me off full-time work for years), it was obvious the clinic doesn’t actually understand the immune system. They told me, for example, that the treatments didn’t work when I’d had a miracle cure of my symptoms (and subsequently fell pregnant on my own). When I went back, they told me that they wouldn’t give me the same treatment as it didn’t work last time (despite the fact I had a live birth) and they were going to cycle me straight away. At the time, my immune condition was flaring so badly that I was running constant fevers, but the nurses wouldn’t listen to me when I explained this.
I moved clinics after realising CRGH had better results per embryo transferred. The contrast between clinics is incredible. CRGH is also an incredibly intensive clinic, but - in contrast - puts a massive effort into patient experience. They don’t routinely put back two embryos in older ladies or those with complex infertility. With me, they did PGS and a freeze-all cycle followed by a FET. They arrange appointments at a convenient time rather than calling up at 5pm telling you to come in tomorrow for a scan. They don’t expect you to wait around all day for appointments. They tailor your treatment to your blood tests/scan results, but don’t expect you to inject a medication in the next fifteen minutes or the world will end (as I’ve read ARGC doing in numerous forums). The waiting room is bright, cheery, and often has families coming back for repeat treatment rather than miserable tearful ladies chugging water and crying in the corridors (as I saw several times at ARGC). They don’t expect you to do a compulsory hysteroscopy to map your uterus (again, as I’ve read) - I had a far-less-invasive 3DSIS and they returned the embryo with ultrasound.
I’ve also actually spoken to a named consultant and queried my treatment several times at CRGH and had a pleasant, productive conversation. At ARGC I was routinely told ‘that’s what Mr Taranissi said’ as the only explanation for a clinical decision, and I only ever once got to speak to an actual consultant (who said something unforgivably horrid when I refused an IVIG).
In short, ARGC didn’t treat me like a person, and IVF is stressful enough. CRGH cares enormously that patients are actual people and, given their results are better, there’s no reason to pay to be treated equally like c**p.