Private clexane injections £80 a fortnight 😵‍💫

[Njay3]

I have a history of recurrent miscarriage and am now under the care of a (private) specialist fertility doctor. He’s great and I feel happy to have someone on my side after so many losses.

He’s prescribed progesterone, aspirin, prednisone (as I have an autoimmune condition) and clexane injection. The injections and aspirin are very much “might not help but also won’t harm so let’s try,” BUT the clexane injections are £80 for two week dose which if I take all pregnancy (providing the pregnancy is successful) would be £1,600.

Honestly, if it’s going to be the difference between having a baby and not then I’ll do it but not quite sure how I’m going to find the money! Does anyone have any experience with taking these and have they had a major impact?

it’s worth saying, I wouldn’t be able to get them on the NHS as these are more of a precaution than a necessity as so far we haven’t been able to get to the bottom of why I’ve had so many miscarriages.

Any thoughts very much appreciated!

what testing have you had done to date for recurrent miscarriage and did you not attempt to go via the NHS RMC? Once you get to your 12 week scan you may get transferred on to consultant care and in which case if they decide to continue clexane then you can get the prescription via the NHS. Be aware you can’t get clexane from a bog standard pharmacy - it has to be via the hospital as most GP surgeries won’t honour consultant recommendations for clexane