My story...hope it might offer some hope..?

[shockd&amazed]

Dear all,
First of all sorry for everyone's losses. I spent a lot of time here after my last m/c and everyone was so supportive.
I didn't want to tell 'my story' til now because I was scared of tempting fate. But I promised a few months ago I'd pop back and tell my story if things worked out and now that they seem to be I wanted to tell everyone in the hope that if might offer some hope...
First of all a disclaimer: I am not claiming that progesterone is a wonder cure or can stop everyone's m/c from happening, but wanted to just tell my experience of it...
Four years ago I had my first m/c. I was nine weeks gone when I began to bleed. At the emergency scan the woman said the fetus measured just 5 weeks. it had either stopped growing then/ not implanted correctly or shrunk back to that size as the missed miscarriage had passed. I was devastated and vowed to try again.
We did try again...time after time... for about 9 months and every time AF would arrive. In the end I gave up and me and the ex OH split up for other reasons.
I then met my current OH and we wanted a baby. In Feb this year I got my BFP after two months trying and was over the moon. I was scared of m/c after having one but it wouldn't happen again, right..?
Wrong!
At nearly six weeks I began cramping and bleeding. I went to A and E and they confirmed it. A few days later I miscarried that one too.
We tried again immediately. I got a BFP exactly 4 weeks after my second M/C, dangerous perhaps I thought?
I began cramping and bleeding at 4 weeks... I was SURE i was losing my 3rd pregnancy. But my darling OH rushed back to my doc and he dished out some progesterone capsules I had to put up my you-know-what every single night for 3 months...if I got that far.
I took the drug...and that afternoon the bleeding stopped. i carried on taking it, convinced I'd miscarried again and I was just prolonging a 3rd m/c. At nine weeks I had an early internal scan...I went there like a lamb to the slaugher SURE that my baby would be dead and this drug had just hidden it from me...
But do you know what? There, on screen was a kicking, wriggling tiny baby! The heartbeat was fine, the size was fine! I was FINALLY properly pregnant.
I carried on the progesterone until 13 weeks. I then came off it, terrified I'd M/C again. But I didn't. I then had another scan and baby was fine, then another one two weeks ago and all is well and it's a boy.
I am now 19 weeks and this is my first child. I can't believe it.
I know many docs don't agree on progesterone. Maybe I'd have kept this baby anyway? maybe it's coincidence? But when I think of how I was bleeding at 4 weeks... I don't think so.
My opinion is that I was progesterone deficient and that this drug saved my baby this time. I look back now and notice that after my first m/c my luteal phase was weird, with spotting coming sometimes as early as day 21 - a sign, some say of progesterone deficiency.
I know it's not the wonder cure. But I promised I'd come back and share this story if things worked out - and touch wood they are.
If anyone wants to PM me or any info about what progesterone was like, please do. I really want to share this and hope that my story can help someone else.

So sorry to go on and on..... admin people sorry if this clogs the server!

 

[Ang]

Just wanted to say that I am so pleased that everything is working out for you. I had a miscarriage in May and I am now being tested for hormone inbalance as I do believe that I am progestrone deficiency. I only have a 9day luteal phase and this is what makes me think I am. I am back at the docs on Thursday for a third blood test of this cycle and I should get all the results to see if that is the problem.

 

[JASMAK]

Well, *IF* I get pregnant again, I have a bottle of Prometrium to take (progesterone)...twice a day until the end of the first tri. If only I could get pregnant. If only I could climb that Mt. Everst before me. Sorry, I am on CD 1, so I am a little emotional. I am so gald you are where you are, and things worked out for you.

 

[xxxjacxxx]

Thankyou for sharing your story with us, just a couple of questions though.
1. Can anyone take progesterone or prometrium? How did you get your doc to give this?
2. Does it have to be given on prescription?
3. Can you just take it as a precautionary measure or could it do some harm if you are infact not progesterone deficient?

Sorry for the questions, but I have just suffered my 2nd m/c and plan on trying again this cycle...if this stuff is worth a go, I would like some!

 

[shockd&amazed]

Hi girls thanks for messages and in answer to Jacqui's questions:

1. Can anyone take progesterone or prometrium? How did you get your doc to give this?

Answer: Some docs test for it first, mine didn't!! he just dished em out like sweets assuming that could be what's wrong. Again, as everything, it depends on the doc. Some say they'd rather test, others say there's no point as they can't really 'harm' you (again i am not a doc so please talk to a medic about this!) but yes, I just got mine without a test.

2. Does it have to be given on prescription?

ANSWER: Yes, I wouldn't get it over the net or any other way as you just don't know what's in it. I got a prescription for three months' supply and just went whenever I ran out to get more.

3. Can you just take it as a precautionary measure or could it do some harm if you are infact not progesterone deficient?
ANSWER: That's the 100,000 dollar question! I wasn't tested so if it did harm me I am yet to find out. I must say my side effects, if they were side effects were extreme nausea, bloating, and feeling 'heady' but looking back this could be pregnancy symptoms as I felt like this even in the beginning of the 4th month after stopping the prometrium!

I'd see a doc and put all these Qs to him/ her. As I say, some don't even believe it works. Some do. But I was so desperate I'd have shoved anything up there (sorry if TMI!) to stay pregnant and seeing as I was bleeding again at 4weeks with this one, I personally feel it was the prometrium that held this bean in place.

Good luck to you girls!!!! Let me know how you get on !!
xxxx