IVF patients need to learn that doctors don't have all the answers

Dear Dr Malpani,I read your recent email with interest, as it relates directly to me.After 5 years of IVF and only one successful transfer, which occurred last year at the age of 49 (2016) and I was pregnant for 11 weeks. Unfortunately the embryo failed at 11 weeks due to Edwards syndrome, but these were my own eggs from about age 46.Since this, I have now done two transfers with donor eggs (23 year old donor) and neither has worked.The only successfully pregnancy I had involved a treatment protocol designed by a fertility immunologist, as a result of extensive and expensive blood tests in the US (exactly a you describe - the only place they can be done is in Boston). This treatment included Intralipid infusions, neuprogen injections, prednisolone tablets, clexane injections, as well as estrgoen patches and progesterone pessaries and then once I reached 6 weeks I had to have progesterone injections every second day (to keep my levels up). NK cells are vey high, along with other immune issues.From reading your email you are obviously very skeptical of this type of treatment, as I am also. Not only is it expensive, time consuming and stressful, I also have many Dr's who say they do not believe it because it is untested and fringe. However, as this is the only time I have achieved a positive pregnancy test, it is very hard for me to question the treatment protocol. I have used Chinese medicine for the last 5 years, acupuncture, changed my diet to gluten ...
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