Which miscarriage specialist, please help

[mia1972]

Hello,

I have just miscarried my second baby in the space of 5 months, the first time was last Dec at 12 weeks afer having seen a healthy heartbeat ...really unexplicable, this time I had a missed miscarriage at 8+3, there was no heartbeat... and again it was really heartbreaking.

I am now 39 years and I am worried about waiting for another ms and then starting the testing that NHS will cover, so I decided to bite the bullet and pay for a ms specialist to have some tests done....

I have red so many reviews and gotten really confused. This is what I have learned, there are various options in London:

Dr Raj Rai Works privately in the Zita West Clinic (but also at St Mary?s Centre for Recurrent Miscarriage under Prof. Lesley Regan which is only NHS). He is meant to be excellent but will not test on NK cells as doesn?t believe in it, they have a slightly more conservative approach. Can anyone confirm this?

On the other hand, Mr.Taranissi at ARGC, Dr. Hassan Shehata, Dr. Amin Gorgy at Wimpole Street & Yau Thum at the Lister do NK cells testing as well as other testing. My concern is to find a doctor that will test for everything that is available and will not focus on one issue....so that I can cover most ground as I am only starting this scary route now ...

Any advice / experiencewould be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance!!

Thanks a lot Supersunnyday and sorry about your loss....

I will look into seeing Lesley Regan privately - I actually have ordered her book which should arrive today.

I will give myself another couple of days of thinking this through and will make a decision and book an appointment - i know it's hard to get to see any one of them quickly ...and I want to start trying again as soon as possible clock is ticking for me -

Sorry to hear about your losses.

I can't speak from personal experience, but an aquantance of mine is currently seeing Dr Shehata privately, having previously been through St Mary's as an NHS patient. She was feeling very demoralised but feels with Dr Shehata that she has been listened to and now has a clear plan in place for when she does get pregnant again. In her case, he thinks her mcs were down to immune issues which were not tested for at St Mary's.