Be careful of this woman. Someone wrote a review about her saying to only go to her if you're Indian. Well, I'm Indian and that didn't stop her from trying to scam me.
She is a scam artist and she is all about money. During my first 12-15 visits, she came across very sweet. She spent time with my husband and I during my visits and we bought into her shit. After a while, when I realized things weren't looking so good & I expressed my frustration, she started getting angry. My husband also felt like there was something off about her and he mentioned this to me a few times but we decided to just stick with it because it was more of a hassle to find a new doctor and start all over again. During one of our visits, she said this to me and I will always remember it..."lay people don't understand that there is a science behind infertility. Everybody just wants to get pregnant. You might get pregnant with the next cycle or you might not....I can't promise you that. You just have to keep trying as long as it takes." These were the words that made me realize that she had no intention of getting me pregnant. I was 34 years old.
She put me on so many medications for my 2 egg retrievals. The first retrieval ended up getting cancelled because she told me to take my Hcg trigger the night before and by the time I went in for my egg retrieval with Global Fertility in NYC (which is all arranged through her), I had already ovulated so they canceled my cycle. For the 2nd egg retrieval, 12 eggs were retrieved- 3 of them turned into day 5/6 embryos of good quality (PGT tested). She had me come into the office almost daily for "monitoring." I thought this was excessive but I didn't want to question her.
For my frozen embryo transfer cycles (I had 3 separate transfer cycles to prevent a twin pregnancy) she made me take so much estrogen...she kept telling me that my lining was not getting thick. Meanwhile, my estrogen levels were in the 2000s to 3000s because she had me on oral and vaginal estrogen then injections. I had 3 embryo transfers with Global Fertility (who might also be in on this scam with her but I can't be sure of this) and all 3 PGT tested near-perfect embryos failed to implant. I felt that she was doing something wrong here because I have 2 children naturally who are 6 and 8 years old and we were trying for a 3rd baby years later but weren't having any luck naturally.
She had me and my husband take a whole bunch of tests with her to rule out any problems with my uterus, or any problems with my blood/ clotting, or any other issues and they all came back negative. We also went for genetic testing to make sure nothing was wrong. Finally, it came to a point where I had no more embryos left with Global Fertility in NYC so I decided to move on to another reproductive doctor just because I didn't trust her and I didn't want to keep doing these cycles with her. The medications made me have so many mood swings.
I was very fortunate that my husband has EXCELLENT insurance through his job which allowed me the luxury of trying again with another doctor. With my new doctor, I had just 1 egg retrieval and was able to get 32 eggs retrieved and 11 of them developed into great quality embryos (I had these PGT tested also). So basically, the number of embryos more than tripled with this new doctor because he put me on the correct medications suited for my body. Also, with this new doctor, I took oral estrogen just like I did with Dr. Palta initially, but I had no problem with my lining....and guess what? I got pregnant with my first embryo transfer. We have a beautiful, healthy 1 year old baby boy now. Best news is that, we still have 8 beautiful embryos waiting for us if we decide to have another child.
Moral of the story is, run away from her. Run as fast as you can & don't look back. You'll be doing yourself a favor. She put me on all the wrong meds for my egg retrievals so that I don't get too many embryos & she can keep doing this over and over again with me so I can be her cash cow. This woman is repulsive and she calls herself a doctor. read more