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[quote=Anonymous]Hello All,

This is my first time posting.  I am a patient at SG in Fair Oaks (30 years old with unexplained infertility).  We tried 3 IUIs before moving to IVF.  We did 3 fresh cycles (one resulting in a chemical, one with nothing and another freeze all PGD) and 3 FETs (one chemical and one 6 weeks miscarriage).  Each time the doctor tells us he believes I do not have anything going on to make it impossible for me to carry a pregnancy (two HSGs, a hysteroscopy, MRI).  We have been on lovenox and prednisole the past several cycles (as a catch all since I don't think they have actually tested me for any immune or clotting issues) and our PGD cycle resulted in 6 normal embryos out of 8.

The miscarriage we just had started off as an excellent looking twin pregnancy.  We knew they were genetically normal and after a short bleeding scare on Saturday everything looked great in the ultrasound the following day.  Unfortunately I started bleeding heavily two days later and when they went back to look the following day both sacs were gone.  RE thinks it was low progesterone.  Is this possible? (My research shows that usually low progesterone is from genetically abnormal embryos)  We have been using endometrin suppositories instead of the PIO shots (our first FET I was in so much pain I only made it a week and since then we have just used suppositories).  Aside from feeling angry that all I needed to do was get shots to protect them, I'm not sure I really believe or trust him.

So I'm looking for some advice… what would you do?  I don't think my RE is thinking "outside the box" here but I also feel stuck because of shared risk (we have 4 more embryos in the freezer).  I don't want to go through another loss and if we need to consider a GC I would rather just start the search now than "waste" anymore embryos.  Has anyone gotten a second opinion within the same practice?  How do you go about doing it?  Has anyone left SG for a second opinion but returned for treatment?  I know there isn't much they can do differently with an FET but I feel dumb for how long we have stuck it out without success.

Any advice or help would be great.

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