hi Ladies,
i've had a lot of catching up to do!
fifi-folle- how was your ultrasound, was it ok?
Kat - your Dr sounds amazing, I wish more of them were like that it must be great to know someone will do all they can to help you.
Lightweight - Good to hear some great news, I hope you can relax a bit now
Lamburai - I've been wondering similar things, I tried aspirin and progesterone this time and that didn't work (I haven't had any of the RMC tests though) I know that my EPU Dr thinks Progesterone is a placebo and they just give it to you so you feel you're doing something. I would say that that journal article is just one study, and for me I would want to see more papers showing the same thing.
Personally if I was offered heparin, aspiring and progesterone I would still give them a go, the risks are low and it might work out next time. It think the problem is with recurrent miscarriage is that you can still have a one off random event that causes a miscarriage (Prof Regan explains it better in her book) which means it's hard to pinpoint why they're happening I guess an example would be having a clotting problem, being on the right drugs for it and still miscarrying due to a random chromosomal problem which is a one off event. I hope that your next pregnancy is the one, I feel that if I have no cause for my miscarriages then one of them has got to stick!
Lawa - how was your appt with Dr Quenby?
Petitpas - I can't believe your Dr is being so stubborn, is the risk of upping the heparin does too great for them to try it? Do they know what might have caused your recent loss? because then they could surely see that your dose might need to be increased if it was due to a clotting issue.
Baby2loss-
Your blood results should be back fairly quickly as they are routine tests, I know thinks like Karyotyping take a lot longer. with regards to OPKs I think the hcg needs to be out of your system and your cycle might not be back to normal until after your first period. As for getting pregnant I had a chemical miscarriage straight after my second miscarriage so you can get pregnant and I know lots of ladies on BnB that have got pregnant without having a period inbetween. With regards to low dose aspiring, what I've read suggests it is safe I took it for 2 cycles but is up to you.
AFM Petitpas I didn't have to cry down the phone to the secretary as she "knew about me" she phoned me back and said that the consultant would see me in his gynae clinic as this means I dont' have to wait for the designanted RMC clinic which would take months (dunno why they cancelled my appt why am I suffering?!) BUT i need GP referral to him. This is a problem as I can't see a gp for a week AND they do online book and choose which won't get me to Mr Z's gynae clinic. Plus they already referred me to gynae for RMC but I cancelled the appt as it was general gynae not the recurrent miscarriage clinic and I found out the EPU Dr had referred me to Mr Z.
Am feeling quite stressed out that this is taking so long, (and I'm still spotting which means I can't forget about it) I know that I can't have my thrombophilia screen for about another 3-4 weeks anyway but I want my appt! I want some answers and I'm sick and tired of not knowing what to do next. If I get pregnant do we try heparin? do we try nothing as it's "just bad luck" and one of the little buggers should stick? I just really really don't want to have a 5th miscarriage but more than anything I want my baby.
sorry for the overly long post - has been a tough week