London clinic recommendations for testing

[jenk91]

Hi everyone! As title says I am looking for some recommendations for London fertility clinics for some further testing.

A bit of background, we are currently doing IVF with nhs in north London, we’ve had 3 transfers, 2 failed and one worked but miscarried around 7 weeks. We are unexplained infertility, and we have one embryo left and would like to do more investigations before we transfer that one.

We had a meeting with consultant mid November and she recommended some more bloods (all came back normal) and I’m currently on wait list for hysteroscopy. But while we wait she did say we could go and get some more testing done privately. She mentioned natural killer cells etc. and also Emma/era/alice - but our clinic doesn’t offer this. So plan is to speak to a private clinic about these tests / any others they might recommend, but a bit lost on where on earth to go for these!

Any suggestions / recommendations would be massively appreciated!

Thanks so much in advance 💜

I did IVF through the Lister in Chelsea and did various tests/investigations through them and think they offer pretty much anything you'd need. They're not the cheapest, but I found very good. I didn't do alice/emma/era but did have saline scans, a hysteroscopy and various blood tests as well as NK cell testing through them

Lynne Chapman at Beaconsfield- she cracked my unexplained infertility and why my three ivf rounds had yielded such poor results x

CRGH offers all these tests and are very thorough.

The alice/emma/era are a biopsy taken during the hysteroscopy, ideally you would want to do the transfer at the same clinic as the tests. They do a mock cycle with the same medication protocol as your transfer will be and the ERA will find the optimal time for embryo implantation on that protocol. If the testing comes back ok then they use the same protocol for your actual transfer.

Thanks all, this is really helpful! @lilacrab i have reached out to CRGH for a consultation so let’s see what they say!