So after a failed FET and a successful FET that sadly ended in a chemical pregnancy, I got a blood test for NK cells. Apparently I have an elevated number, 15. My doctor said I’ll need to go on prednisone for my next FET.

But in researching this, it’s so controversial! There are doctors and scientists that say it’s literally nonsense, and especially the blood test, as it doesn’t tell you what’s going on with uterine NK cells. And NK cells actually help the fetus implant??

But then other clinics swear by it and I’ve heard anecdotal evidence of autoimmune protocols (prednisone + heavy duty blood thinner, rather than just baby aspirin, which scares me) working for women with elevated NK cells, and then going onto have healthy pregnancies and babies.

At this point I’ve just started taking fish oil as that is said to help with inflammation, which is supposedly the real culprit, not necessarily the NK cells themselves.

My head is spinning though! I’m really curious—have any of you been tested for this and what did your doctors do?? I want my next transfer to work and I will be open to an autoimmune protocol I guess, but it just seems like the risks are high for something we clearly don’t know a ton about.