Recurrent Miscarriage Thread

[Tasha]

I went to see professor quenby and professor brosens yesterday, they decided that the blood thinners I'm on aren't enough for me so I am to have 80mg twice a day instead of 40mg once a day. She decided to scan me to make sure it wasn't ectopic due to the such high dose of fragmin and risk of bleeding. Surprisingly we saw a sac but it was an awful shape, so I'm waiting to miscarry, again.

 

[ab75]

Aaawww Tasha, I hope that's not the case for you xx

 

[Tasha]

It is. The professor said that I've been through more than anyone she has met and that I shouldn't give up but there is no hope for this pregnancy x

 

[sportysgirl]

Oh Tasha that is heartbreaking am so sorry. X x

 

[dan-o]

Ugh Tasha thats awful, so so sorry. Amazing how it can be written off so early?

 

[Tasha]

Thank you for the hugs. I know dano even if she hadn't said that I would of known it though. If I show you the pic you might get it more. The sac is the black bit below the + and it should be symmetrical but you can see its flat and long x

 

[dan-o]

Totally see what you mean Tasha. Completely gutted for you if this is the case
Just one thing, it is definitely the sac on that scan isn't it? It's just that it looks almost like a bleed. At your gestation sometimes a sac won't even show up yet. Has your hcg been going up ok?
Hate this, wish it never had to happen to any of us xxx

 

[Squig34]

So very sorry to hear this, Tasha

 

[confuzion]

SweetV - wish I could help. My first three pregnancies I passed naturally on my own with no complications. But once the bleeding started there were plenty of cramps and lots of continuous bleeding until it was all done. My last pregnancy I had spotting for weeks and weeks (never a gush like you describe) and never cramps. Had to have the D&C as it had been a long time with nothing happening and my doc suspected molar based on US and high hCG. It was a partial molar so I know that can't help you relate.

I've heard mixed things on the misoprostol. Works for a lot of people. But I've also met a few ladies who it did nothing for.

Tasha - I have no words. No one deserves to go through what you've been through. I hope you don't give up .

 

[dairymomma]

Tasha-I want so badly for this to be wrong. But all I can do is send . Lots and lots of I'm so sorry.

 

[petitpas]

Tasha, all I can say is I hope it's still too early. But if that is the sac it isn't a very happy looking one
I've had an odd sac before, too. It was one of the pregnancies we are pretty sure were chromosomally defective but not treatment failures!

I'm also on a treatment dose of lmwh, actually my target range is even tighter than the normal treatment range and I get tested monthly or sometimes more often if my dose changes. I start my injections as soon as I get a positive test, though. Then I am scanned weekly. If at any point it looked like an ectopic I'm sure they would have changed the dosage but lmwh has a half life of 12h so it leaves your body pretty quickly so as long as you are monitored you shouldn't really get to a dangerous ectopic situation. Maybe you could ask to start the injections earlier? They are also part of the immune treatment. I changed two things to get from unsuccessful pregnancies to successful: the lmwh dose and adding steroids. I tend to attribute the success to the steroids but there is a chance the heparin has something to do with it, too.
(I have FVL heterozygous and I suffered from a DVT and clots in the lungs in the past so also an active clotter)

 

[Tasha]

Thank you so much for the support girls.

Pip I start the 40mg at + but the 160mg a day is a new thing and she doesn't want me on that until it's confirmed not ectopic. Since Riley Rae I've said I thought the 40mg wasn't enough for me, my ob actually agreed and said next time I get a sticky pregnancy I need regular blood tests to sort the level. The problem is getting a sticky pregnancy. My girls placentas were both over fifty percent clots and were far too small, they both had IUGR. I have factor V Leiden too, my TEG they told me blood was extremely sticky and I had a DVT diagnosed about ten days after Riley Rae was born (I actually had all the signs of a dvt from two days after but they told me it was an infection), so I imagine I would be classed in a similar active clotter too.

I hate limbo, would rather it just happened if it's going to

 

[Milty]

Tasha

Are they going to rescan you in a couple days?

 

[Tasha]

No, she has given me a letter to take to a local hospital if I've not bled in a week or two (will need to check what the letter says as first she said two weeks then a week) x

 

[dan-o]

Oh tasha, limbo hell, you so don't deserve this

 

[SweetV]

Tasha, I'm so sorry , the limbo of not knowing is pure torture. I went through that with this pregnancy with them telling me it wasn't viable, doing a rescan and finding a very slow heartbeat. It was weeks of not knowing and it was the longest weeks of my life.

Lamb - I know that feeling too. The wait for this to be over is not going well.

AFM, I had another gush today at work. no clots that I'm aware of but this has been the longest weirdest miscarriage I've had. . Days of nothing, a day of spotting, then nothing, then more blood than I would usually lose for AF in a week back to nothing. ARGH! Some days I think I should just be done with all of this. Then I see a pregnant lady or a newborn and my heart melts and it's all I can think of.

 

[ttcbabyisom]

This is awful...Baby #5...gone. We are heartbroken. Found out Tuesday at our 8w5d scan that baby's heart was no longer beating. He/she measured 8w3d. We were devastated. Went in for confirmation scan Friday and still the same so my D&C is tomorrow so they can send baby off for proper testing. I just want answers. We can't keep doing this. I don't know how you ladies that have had more than 5 losses go on...and i know some of you have had success after that??? How??? We've done all the testing we could and our issues were being managed with the heparin injections and progesterone. Doc thinks maybe chromosomal this time. if so, his protocol will still work. I'm 35 this month. DH is 35 next month. We don't have time to waste!

We will miss you baby!

 

[Tasha]

I'm so sorry hun x

 

[cutieq]

Sending you hugs!

 

[petitpas]

So sorry, hon. If it helps, we lost our fifth in the 8th week and had it (him) chromosomally tested. After that, we went for immune therapy and were successful with our sixth pregnancy. I know others who have had success even later down the line
You are doing absolutely the right thing by getting the karyotyping done. It should give you an idea of how to continue with either answer (repeat treatment if abnormal, change something if normal).

All the best for the op tomorrow and so sorry about your loss