italianlady14
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Hello everyone. I had a miscarriage this past week, diagnosed with a blighted ovum. The U/S showed just the gestational sac and nothing else at 7 weeks. The Dr took blood Friday and wants to take more this coming Friday to check my hormone levels. She said Friday my progesterone level was low, which she says was the cause of the miscarriage. She basically said that for some reason that cycle my ovary didn't produce enough progesterone to develop the embryo. But that this isn't likely to happen again because my cycles are regular. My online research on blighted ovum says it was a chromosome issue usually.
So whats the deal? Anyone else have a similar explanation? That sounds like something to be concerned with in the future to me. She told me, if I wanted, the next cycle we could test my progesterone levels in the 3rd week, but she made it sound completely unneeded, more for my peace of mind.
Why would an ovary just decide this time, "I'm not going to produce progesterone", but every other time the Dr expects it to be fine? I would have preferred the chromosome explanation. Sigh.
So whats the deal? Anyone else have a similar explanation? That sounds like something to be concerned with in the future to me. She told me, if I wanted, the next cycle we could test my progesterone levels in the 3rd week, but she made it sound completely unneeded, more for my peace of mind.
Why would an ovary just decide this time, "I'm not going to produce progesterone", but every other time the Dr expects it to be fine? I would have preferred the chromosome explanation. Sigh.