Tests? What to expect?

[seasavage]

Hi, My GP has basically offered to refer me (a couple of chemicals on my notes as well aa this years 2 MC). I am thinking about it because we had decided to stop trying. I realise I can talk to my GP / lovely Dr at the hospital that I have seen far too much this year. But, can I ask what ARE they going to test for? Could there be a health reason in itself? Or is this solely about my inability to maintain a pregnancy?
Also Coventry gets mentioned a lot (I live nearby) what is in Coventry.
I know I could google it. But I am also interested in how people felt about the tests/ advice received?

Hi seasavage come and join the RMC thread.

The NHS run a fairly standard set of tests - basically an armful of blood and a scan. They will normally check a basic blood profile for your general health and to rule out diabetes, thyroid tests, hormone levels, clotting tests, autoimmune diseases. Possibly karyotyping ( genetic testing) on both partners to see if either of you carry an abnormal chromosome. Some of it could impact on your general health but I doubt they'd worry if you were otherwise asymptomatic. The standard tests come up with a reason about 50% of the time. If you want to read up on them you need Dr Mary Regan's book "Miscarriage - what every woman needs to know"

'Coventry' (university hospital in) is where Profs Quenby and Brosens are based who run the implantation clinic. They test a uterine biopsy for decidualisation (how the lining prepares for pregnancy) and for NK cells (immune imbalance causing miscarriages) It's not funded by the NHS, but you are a "self funded NHS patient" so you pay a non-profit amount for the tests £360.

Should have said my experience was nothing found on the NHS tests, given some 'just in case' treatment (aspirin and progesterone) and MC again, foetus shown to be genetically normal, went to Coventry, diagnosed high NK cells, treated with steroids, heparin and progesterone in first trimester, DD is 4m old

Thanks for your response. I feel at least a little clearer that there could be a general health reason. I shall talk some more about how DH feels.