Please or to access all these features

Infertility

Our Infertility Support forum is a space to connect with others in the same position, discuss causes, treatment and IVF, and share infertility stories of hope and success.

ZITA WEST IVF FERTILITY CLINIC - HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE!

8 replies

Liberty2013 · 25/07/2021 15:44

IVF is such a lottery in terms of finding the right clinic so I thought I would save you tens of thousands of pounds by sharing our experience. Firstly, Zita West have a terrible reputation within the medical industry for false promises and unfounded truths! Which is our experience too.
However, it is our physical experience at the hands of Zita West that is an even greater reason. One of the main senior consultants within their team was so physically violent during my embryo transfer that he repeatedly pierced by uterus with the catheter carrying the embryo. Such was the level of pain the nurses had to hold my body down to control the violent shaking I experienced as a result of the pain. Needless to say, my embryo didn't stand a chance.
In the next clinic I went to a wonderful Surgeon did a small exploratory operation on my uterus, she came out of the theatre as asked me immediately "what on earth happened during your last transfer? I have just spent an hour removing extensive scar tissue!!" She was furious and could see exactly what had happened.

I raised this with Zita West herself and she denied this could ever have happened at her clinic. Sadly, the Dr in question is still very much part of their team. I can only relay my experience and the opinion of other Fertility Doctors who enlightened me as to their reputation but I wanted to warn other vulnerable couples out there, so you don't experience the horror, expense and waste of precious time we had to!

OP posts:
IsabelHerna · 02/08/2021 11:31

@Liberty2013 Thank you for sharing your story, but I am so sorry you had such a terrible experience!

It so horrible how they treated you and what's even worse, is that the doctor is still part of the team, meaning they did not listen to you.

How are you feeling right now? Are you going to continue your journey with another clinic?

NotMyYear123 · 29/12/2021 16:18

I’m really sorry you had this experience. As another ex-patient, sadly it doesn’t surprise me at all. I too complained about a consultant - almost certainly the same one. Realistically there’s never going to be any action taken against him as the whole place would fold without him. Hence he has far too much power. I wouldn’t recommend their medical side to anyone.

anditgoesonandon · 29/12/2021 17:06

If you guys feel medical malpractice has occurred then you should report the issue to the GMC, an annoymous post on an fertility forum isn't going to achieve much.

NotMyYear123 · 18/02/2022 15:57

Agreed, I’d be taking that further @Liberty2013.

shvetas · 14/03/2022 21:15

Hello! Thanks for sharing your story. Can you please share name of the doctor at zita west? Thanks

NotMyYear123 · 18/03/2022 20:15

There are only three consultants at ZW (when I was there they had staffing issues and were down to two for over six months) and only two of those are male, so it shouldn’t be hard to work out.

fl1pfl0p87 · 13/04/2022 22:09

Hi @Liberty2013 please may you PM me the name of your nice female IVF surgeon??

NotMuchTime · 04/08/2022 16:06

Please can you PM me the name of your consultant because I’ve a horrible feeling it’s the one I’m under…

New posts on this thread. Refresh page