Hi everyone! This is my first time on here. Don’t know all of the abbreviations as yet so bear with me!!
We had our first consultation with Guys ACU yesterday. We’ve been TTC for nearly 3 years with miscarriages at early stages and loads of chemical pregnancies. I had all the tests you can imagine, all clear, but the last blood test that was done for my husband showed he has a translocated reciprocal gene arrangement which could be causing our miscarriages. Therefore we’ve been offered PGD at Guys ACU.
We were seen by Cambridge hospital first who were said they’d referred us to Guys on 1st March but our referral somehow went missing (for a second time in this long process by different hospitals) and ended up being sent 5th May. We complained about this and asked to have our initial consultation sooner but Guys said no so we were given the date of 10th Dec.
Feeling incredibly down and hopeless after yesterday, don’t want to put too much on here about our experience yesterday as don’t want to upset or put others off as I’m sure there are more good experiences than bad but it wasn’t what I expected, I don’t know maybe I was expecting too much, I hoped to feel excited that the ball was rolling but left feeling worse than when i went in.
I was originally told the wait to start treatment from our initial appointment would be 3-4 months so in my mind I thought March at latest which is fine as we’ve just moved house and need to do a few bits to get it how we want so can occupy ourselves whilst we wait and it will soon whizz by. However, we were told yesterday 6-8 month wait, just feel so upset. I’m 39 in July and was told although we are entitled to 3 rounds I’ll probably only get 1, 2 if we’re lucky. Not sure the extra wait is because we’re having PGD on top of IVF.
Anyone else going through this