Recurrent Miscarriage Thread

[Hollybush75]

Well ladies I've come on today to say ta-ta for now and I do hope I won't be posting in here again unless it's with good updates

AF will be here by tomorrow and then when she's gone we will be TTC once again, truly hoping fourth time will be lucky.

Now that my thyroid is under control I have slightly more hope that the next pg will be successful.

Good luck to you all and I hope we all get what we're hoping for
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[Suze]

Hi ladies, hope you don't mind me joining in here.
I'm just going through my 4th loss at the moment, may end up in eprc.

What I was wondering is if anyone knows if any doctor would look at my history as there does not seem to be any pattern to my losses AND in the middle of it I had a healthy baby girl.

I have had a mc at 8 weeks (long time ago), ectopic and loss of right tube (3 years ago), then my baby girl (18 months old), mmc at 17 weeks (4 months ago) and now this loss which is almost at 11 weeks.
The baby boy I lost at 17 weeks was triploidy and so I am going to hopefully get this one tested for chromosomal abnormality too. If it comes back as that, I think they will just say bad luck

 

[stardust22]

Just thought I would update you with some news. Not sure if anyone can give me any advice on my situation, maybe a happy ending?

My hubby decided to ring the hospital today (while I was in bed, bless!) He explained to the secretary that although I had been referred the the recurrent miscarriage consultant and had a series of blood tests, I have discovered I am pregnant and need to know what we can do as we are not due to see him until feb/march with the results. luckily the lady he spoke to is a friend of mine (as I work in maternity) she pulled some strings and I went straight to hospital and see the man himself! who I would normally wait months to see! good and bad news really.

Good news is that I am having clexane injections, asprin and progestrone! The bad news is that one of the results has come back postitive. He thinks I have the blood condition, the thrombophilia result was raised, it should be below 10 and mine was 46. It was done 4 weeks ago so what he normally does is repeat the test and that is the diagnosis. he said that because I am now pregnant before this 2nd one can be done (we felt like naughty kids being told off in headmaster office) he will have to treat me for the condition. He also gave me some statistics which made me think!!

With no medication and going ahead naturally 10% chance of successful pregnacy
With just asprin it increases to 60%
with clexane and asprin it goes to 80% (which is the highest for anyone, even without my blood condition)

So basically everything that can be done is being done and I have to pray as hard as I can that this was the cause for losing my 3 angels.

He also said to me that with this sticky blood thing, often the baby impants well and grows and gets a heartbeat and then dies later, this is the case for 2 of my 3 pregnancies. I have had heartbeats at first scans.

Well here goes the start of a long and scary road ahead! the injections are awful. I was shown today how to do them and it hurt like hell! I have to do this every day until the contractions kick in at 9 months! woah.

Lets hope I get that far but I have every chance now.

My first scan is booked for 3 weeks time.

 

[petitpas]

Hey stardust, sorry to hear about the diagnosis, but pleased you now have a good pregnancy to look forward to. The injections aren't so bad. Just make sure you hold the pinch all the way through until the needle is back out. And even more importantly, inject the liquid as slowly as you can. Then it won't sting after you'll soon find out that some parts of your belly are mote sensitive than others and avoid those areas.
Oh, and now that you remind me. It's time for my injection, too!

 

[fluffyblue]

Hi Stardust - congrats on your pregnancy, im 2 weeks of giving birth and have been taking clexane and aspirin since 4 weeks - havig had 5 miscarriages beforehand this was my only chance and it seems to have worked so i really hope it does for you too.

Great statistics by the way x

 

[petitpas]

Hi ladies, hope you don't mind me joining in here.
I'm just going through my 4th loss at the moment, may end up in eprc.

What I was wondering is if anyone knows if any doctor would look at my history as there does not seem to be any pattern to my losses AND in the middle of it I had a healthy baby girl.

I have had a mc at 8 weeks (long time ago), ectopic and loss of right tube (3 years ago), then my baby girl (18 months old), mmc at 17 weeks (4 months ago) and now this loss which is almost at 11 weeks.
The baby boy I lost at 17 weeks was triploidy and so I am going to hopefully get this one tested for chromosomal abnormality too. If it comes back as that, I think they will just say bad luck

Hi Suze,
So sorry to hear about your losses!
I think you should definitely ask to be referred to your local recurrent miscarriage clinic, even if your losses weren't consecutive
Take care

 

[Razcox]

Wow stardust thats great news they managed to get you in! Have to say it was a little scary how similar our stories seem . . I have had 3 MCs and been refered to the recurrent MC FS this month as we lost the last one 2 weeks ago. I also seem to be able to get them to 8 weeks see the HB and then it all goes wrong a few days later.

I really hope eveything goes well for you from here now they are treating you. Gives me a little hope for our future x

 

[Rabbittchild]

Hi everyone, I'm back again. I should be 6 weeks pregnant today but after spotting this morning and going to epu they found a pseudo sac and nothing else. Just waiting on hcg and progesterone to determine if this is an ectopic or another miscarriage and if I need surgery this weekend. This will be my 5th miscarriage since December last year.

I've had my recurrent miscarriage testing and was on an increased dose of aspirin as I have a tendency to clot strongly, this was supposed to fix things so am feeling very down at the moment and feeling like I don't want to try anymore - I can't keep taking the disappointment.

 

[stardust22]

Wow stardust thats great news they managed to get you in! Have to say it was a little scary how similar our stories seem . . I have had 3 MCs and been refered to the recurrent MC FS this month as we lost the last one 2 weeks ago. I also seem to be able to get them to 8 weeks see the HB and then it all goes wrong a few days later.

I really hope eveything goes well for you from here now they are treating you. Gives me a little hope for our future x

Hi Razcox, I have seen your updates on various threads, because we seem to have had the same story, like you say! so sorry for your most recent loss too, I didnt realise it had happened again! I really hoped it was 2rd time lucky for you.

My consultant was really good and very informative, considering he was not having a clinic and I was supposed to be seeing him in Feb or March. so I feel happy that I have every chance possible now. I am still petrified (as you know only to well) I just hope the blood thing I have is the problem and the meds will just fix it, although he said it could still end in a miscarriage but we will need to wait and have more tests. I didnt want to wait really but this time is was an accident, no monitor, couple random and boom! so fate it going to decide. I cant face another d&c and more heartache but I am just going to have to keep positive and keep going. There are lots of people on here to give me hope and success stories are what I read now, not trying to find the worse stories with bad endings. thats what I usually do, sound familiar!

I hope you get your app soon and are you now stopping ttc in the meantime? have you had the bloods, because my epu arranged that the week of my last mc and then the office tracks it from the system and were going to see me with results. it takes up to 12 weeks for the karytyping, the rest were on system so they only take 2 weeks max, as you know I am pregnant and just called the office and said i needed to know whatever they have on me as I cant face losing another baby. Make sure you chase them!

Hi everyone, I'm back again. I should be 6 weeks pregnant today but after spotting this morning and going to epu they found a pseudo sac and nothing else. Just waiting on hcg and progesterone to determine if this is an ectopic or another miscarriage and if I need surgery this weekend. This will be my 5th miscarriage since December last year.

I've had my recurrent miscarriage testing and was on an increased dose of aspirin as I have a tendency to clot strongly, this was supposed to fix things so am feeling very down at the moment and feeling like I don't want to try anymore - I can't keep taking the disappointment.

I am sooooo sorry for your loss. Its a really long and emotional rollercoaster and I am far from out the woods yet too. I started clexane injections, progesterone and asprin yesterday. I pray this works but the heartache is the part that just does me in. excited to be pregnant and fear of losing it, followed by more hurt.

What has your doctor suggested now? its ok to keep trying but there is a point where enough is enough. I felt like that but then I think I have to keep going until I know it will never be.

Take care and maybe in time you will feel strong enough to try again. in the meantime rest and be kind to yourself

 

[Lamburai1703]

So sorry once again Rabbitchild. I don't have any words that will help ease the pain.

I am not medically trained in any way at all, but has heparin been considered for you? I have no identified clotting issues but have still been prescribed heparin, aspirin and progesterone for the "next time". The NHS wouldn't give it to me so I have to pay for the heparin, but if it works, then it will be money well spent.

I hope you find the strength to carry on sweetie, and I'll be thinking of you.

 

[petitpas]

Wow stardust thats great news they managed to get you in! Have to say it was a little scary how similar our stories seem . . I have had 3 MCs and been refered to the recurrent MC FS this month as we lost the last one 2 weeks ago. I also seem to be able to get them to 8 weeks see the HB and then it all goes wrong a few days later.

I really hope eveything goes well for you from here now they are treating you. Gives me a little hope for our future x

Razcox, so so sorry to hear that things went wrong again
You must be absolutely devastated!
Were you on any meds this time round? I had a wonderful appointment with a doctor after my second loss (very similar, hb at 8 weeks, stopped growing one day later) and the doctor reckoned that losses at that time were most often due to clotting, which can be treated with aspirin and heparin. Obviously, I'm a bit of an extreme clotter anyway as just being on the pill sets me off, but if you aren't on any meds yet it's worth pushing for (even if they don't find a condition during the testing).

Hi everyone, I'm back again. I should be 6 weeks pregnant today but after spotting this morning and going to epu they found a pseudo sac and nothing else. Just waiting on hcg and progesterone to determine if this is an ectopic or another miscarriage and if I need surgery this weekend. This will be my 5th miscarriage since December last year.

I've had my recurrent miscarriage testing and was on an increased dose of aspirin as I have a tendency to clot strongly, this was supposed to fix things so am feeling very down at the moment and feeling like I don't want to try anymore - I can't keep taking the disappointment.

Rabittchild, I am also so sorry to hear about your loss What an awful end to the year

I know you probably don't feel like it just yet, but please don't give up! Maybe this was the 'unlucky' one? Losses this early aren't usually blamed on clotting so your new treatment won't have had a good chance to work yet.

Please let us know how you get on. I have my fingers tightly crossed hoping this is not an ectopic fxfxfxfxfxfx

 

[moonmama]

Hi all, I'm back too. Had my 5th loss yesterday at 10w5d despite being on pregnyl and fragmin and aspirin this time. Sorry to all of you in same boat x

 

[Lamburai1703]

So so sorry Moonmama. Devastated for you.

 

[petitpas]

moonmama

 

[Rabbittchild]

Moonmama am sorry to hear your news I wish noone else was going through this crap at the moment.

Ladies, thanks for all your kind words, have had more spotting now so am just praying the scan on Tues doesn't show an ectopic.

Lamburai - My consultant said I wouldn't need heparin but I feel like it's worth asking if we do anything different if I get pregnant again.

Petitpas - I think you're right this is probably a random miscarriage but it just feels awful, almost like I had a problem, it was being fixed why did this happen? DH wants me to try again but at the moment that is far from my mind.

 

[stardust22]

Moonmama, there are just no words I can find to say how sorry I am for your loss.

Sending you hugs
x

 

[moonmama]

I'm really touched how everyone is so nice whilst still going through their own traumas.

And I really admire the support given by pregnant girls to people on the recurrent loss thread because I have to admit when I was pregnant I couldnt bear to read it because I didn't want to face up to the fact that it could happen again. Now I feel so guilty and wicked and ashamed! Very humbled that you all talk to me again!

 

[LunaBean]

Im so so sorry Moonmama

 

[Razcox]

Moonmama - So sorry for your loss

Stardust22 - We have decided to keep TTC while we wait for the appoinment as it took us 6 months to get a BFP after the 2nd MC and 12 months after the 1st! I really dont want to waste 3 + months waiting for the NHS.

petitpas - I wasnt on any medication as i had only had 2 losses the doctors really didnt seem to care. I did take low dose asprin due to some reading i did and will do so again next time unless the MC FS says different. At least now they are willing to offer some help, just a shame i had to lose 3 babies to get it.

 

[petitpas]

Razcox, so sorry you had to have a third loss to get help! Hopefully your specialists will come up with the right treatment plan so you'll have your take home baby soon

I don't think I can bear holding out for my referral, either. Not stressing too much about things, not temping regularly, but if something does happen then we won't mind.