Miscarriages and my experience with Drs in Dubai

Hi all.
I have used this forum to search for information and feedback about doctors over the last year, and thought it is time i return the favour.

I have been pregnant 5 times in the past year, and lost 4 of them. Now i am pregnant again and i have gone far enough to see a heartbeat for the first time, and i have no doubt that is all down to seeing Dr Rosalie Sant at Primavera. I can not commend her enough.

Before seeing her, i saw Dr Oksus and Dr Jozsa at Health Bay, and Dr Fakih at Fakih IVF clinic.

Dr Oksus - very nice, and if i had a normal pregnancy i would have been very happy to stay with her. After my second miscarriage she said straight out that she is not a fertility expert, but she was sure it was just bad luck, which is why i wanted to see someone else.

Dr Jozsa - i saw Dr Jozsa aft my 3rd loss. He was recommended to me by 2 friends, one with a normal pregnancy and one who had experienced problems, so i had high hopes. I could not have been more disappointed. He was just not intested and told me he had a patient who had experienced 9 losses before conceiving. I am not sure if that was supposed to be reassuring or if he was telling me not to waste his time. His advice was for me too try again and keep the tissue from the next miscarriage so that i could bring it in for testing. His bedside manner left something to be desired, to say the least.

Dr Fakih - time to see a fertility expert. Sadly, Dr Fakih is a one trick pony. He wants to do IVF and not investigate miscarriages. After a 5 minute consultation he concluded that we needed 2 blood tests which would need to be sent off to Chicago. In total, the tests would cost AED13,900. We decided to get a second opinion before spending the money, which was a good thing as the tests he commended would not have picked up my blood clotting issue, which apparently is much more common that the issues he wanted to test for. I know Fakihs success rates are very high, but i would not recommend him to anyone for his manners and lack of medical rigour. He felt more like a car salesman than a doctor.

For anybody who is suffering from recurent miscarriages, there are any number of often painful and frustrating tests to go through, and then you hope they will throw up something wrong so you can go about treating it. It is hard enough without you needing to fight for your doctor to bother taking an interest. Dr Sant has been a god send, very thorough, detailed, explains every step of the way in a way that people like me, with no medical knowledge, can understand.

Sorry for the very long post, i hope it helps anybody else going through similar experiences.