@Powell - Stupid witch! Sorry she got you and brought horrible cramps with her.
@Xannax - Thank you! I've been pretty open about my miscarriages to my co-workers and while it wasn't fun explaining to people, it WAS a relief to have people understand and to talk to about it.
@lxb - Thank you!
Here's a bit about me since I haven't really introduced myself: I'm 36, hubby is 30 and we've been ttc our first since June of 2010. We went through 17 months of no cycles, finding out and working to manage PCOS, and then in November of 2011, I got my first BFP. We were SOOO excited! And then we miscarried just 2 weeks later.... in a horrible drawn out, 2 month long saga. At the time of my first pregnancy, I was diagnosed with borderline Hashimotos and have been working on THAT.
Luckily after my first mc, my cycles came back on their own Thank God! 3rd cycle after the first mc, I was pregnant again. This time we had a couple days longer of being happy and then on June 1 (at 4w5d), I miscarried again. This one was as fast as the other was drawn out. It ended up being basically a very late period and just a week after it started my HCG levels were already down to 0.
After this I felt that I had to push and see what testing that I could get done. I'm not young and we've been trying for a while. Ofc this wasn't an easy thing since I'd switched jobs and consequently insurance companies so I had to find a new OB and see what (if anything) they would do. In the meantime I asked my Endocrinologist (outside of insurance completely) if there was anything she could recommend/order. She's been amazing and has started me on a slew of tests. Through her I've found out that I have a homozygous MTHFR mutation (the C677t variety) as well as a few other things that are inflammation based or influencing.
My new OB turned out to be great and got me a referral right away to an RE that would be (at least partially) covered under my insurance. She also got me genetic testing and my husband and I both did Chromosomal Analysis tests. Those came back normal.
The RE on the other hand isn't really inspiring much confidence in me. He barely knew anything about MTHFR and what he did know wasn't up on the latest research... he refuses to prescribe Lovenox/Herapin (blood thinners commonly given to ladies with MTHFR) unless my homocystein level is high, yet he goes by standards that more current research is showing go way too high. To be fair, there are some good things about him... once I get pregnant again, I'll get serial u/s's and lots of watching over. He's also prescribed me progesterone suppositories (something I've been worried about since my first mc) and told me to take baby aspirin.
So that's me in a nutshell. I'm a researcher, so since finding out about the MTHFR, I've been studying like crazy to find out all the information that I can about how best to help myself. From that research, I'd tell anyone to research things for themselves. I've found soooo much information that says that folic acid isn't that great for us. It's a synthetic that our bodies do NOT handle the same way that they do folate (natures version of folic acid). I recommend people to look up "synthetic vs natural folic acid" and make your own decisions - but do look. To me, even if I didn't have to change things because of the complications that the MTHFR causes, now that I know what I know, I'd stay far away from folic acid.
Wishing much sticky baby dust to everyone!!
He looked so concerned! And I told him I had a miscarriage 2 weeks ago and need to follow up with some procedure so I need to take tomorrow off. And he said.. "Of course of course. Take as much time as you need. We've been through it too"....
got me this morning! Killer cramps too UGH
I guess I shall wait and see then.
It has been 18 days since my m/c, 12 days since I stopped bleeding, and about a week since my home preg test was negative.
We are both happy with our bd schedule as it is. 
