TTC After A Loss... Race for the BFP! - 211 BFP's!!!

[dawny690]

Amy hope your recovering well hun

Deb's fab news hun and cute pic xxxx

 

[VGibs]

Selina - I just posted that poem to my facebook...I have so many friends who have lost babies...it just seems so fitting

 

[groovygrl]

Amy, soooo wonderful to hear you say " next time" . Your PMA, perseverance, courage and solid belief in your family are truely an inspiration! please take good care of yourself and DH. This is a hard time for both of you. I hope your healing process comes with 'grace and ease'.

 

[BizyBee]

Hi everyone! Sending hugs and dust.

Fab news Deb.

Amy, thinking of you.

Groovygrl, sorry about af. Hope it goes well on Wed.

 

[animalcracker]

animal cracker- glad your feeling suppported here. ya, I agree! really great news for kelly preston. Also jealous but stems more from an envy of their privilidged position of being able to throw A LOT of $$$$ at reproductive technology. i don't pretend to know what kind of financial position anyone here is in but...speaking for myself, at 41 I strongly believe I would be on baby #2 if DH and I had multiple thousands to invest in baby dreams. Wow! imagine...putting aside a year to just IVF, IVF, IVF until one sticks. you just need enough cash to pay the salaries of the best fertility specialist and his/her team for a year. wish I could do that but...we do the best we can.

AFM - AF today, BOO! good tho 'cus means the timing for my surgery on wed. is really good. starting to get a little anxious about that. wish me luck?

I am so with you - we'd have to save and scrimp for just ONE round of IVF let alone the many it can take to stick.

 

[Megg33k]

Sis - Def push for the heparin injections next time! I thought you were doing it this time! I think it could easily be the answer!

Ya know... It breaks my heart hearing about people struggling to try and afford IVF and whatnot. I wish so much that I could share my insurance with you all. It sucks! I know how lucky I am, but I also feel guilty for having it when so many don't. You should all move to Illinois! lol

 

[fluffyblue]

Selina- thanks for that beautiful poem- it made me

Vickie- I am not sure about the higher dose- let me ask a question- would I have even carried to 8 weeks if it was a clotting issue? Since the heart stopped, but baby was correct size for my dates, wouldn't that mean it was something chromosonal? What do you think?

Deb- wonderful news hunni and what a great picture of little man!!!!!

I just woke up from being pretty much zonked out all day. Not any physical pain, but I am taking the pain pills to take away the pain in my heart.

Amy I got to 7 weeks, 10 weeks and 9 weeks and they blamed the clotting, it can happen anytime at all as Vickie says. Its just once the clots there is gets worse.

I bled with mine as well so your symptoms were same as mine.

Defo push for clexane/heparin, look at me 22 weeks and all well !

Sending you lots of love for healing xxxx

 

[groovygrl]

Hi, one of the bizillion tests I have had in the past 6 months included: Thrombophilia studies. I understood this test to be about determining clotting issues. I don't know if you've already had this done Amy OR, if it's relevant to your questions about heparin? it might be worth an ask at your follow up appointments? Just throwing it out there?

Has anyone else here who has been treated with heparin or advised to take aspirin had this test?

 

[padbrat]

Hey Deb... lovely piccy and such great news about not having Edwards Syndrome! Yay!

Amy... hoping that the physical pain stays away and that our love helps with the emotional agony xxx

Megg... how's your blasties cooking???? What happenes next for you?

 

[Megg33k]

Groovy - I've had the studies, but nothing showed up. I take the aspirin just in case.

Padbrat - Well, I hope! LOL Next? Uhm... Hopefully a BFP? That's about it! I mean, that's the first step toward my next step at least. I'm supposed to test on Sept 25, and if I think it even MIGHT be positive, I have to get a beta done. Then... .. We didn't get that far!

 

[selina3127]

i love that poem it's so true, all you girls on here are mummies in my eyes xxxx

 

[animalcracker]

Sis - Def push for the heparin injections next time! I thought you were doing it this time! I think it could easily be the answer!

Ya know... It breaks my heart hearing about people struggling to try and afford IVF and whatnot. I wish so much that I could share my insurance with you all. It sucks! I know how lucky I am, but I also feel guilty for having it when so many don't. You should all move to Illinois! lol

Hey Megg!

Wow, your insurance covers IVF? What insurance do you have if you don't mind me asking? Our work insurance sucks balls. Seriously, it is awful. My work buddy had to pay for part of her D&C and I am waiting for my D&C medical bill to come through. I am dreading it.

In England (I am originally from London but moved to NYC in 1996) if I am not mistaken you get 3 rounds of IVF for free (if you meet the criteria) on the National Health Service. I'm too old for that now I think + my stinkin' fibroids are a risk.

 

[Amos2009]

Groovy- I did have that test and it came up fine. My only issue that they have found is that I am homozygous MTHFR. My doctor is one that doesn't think there is enough research out there to warrant giving heparin if all your other clotting tests come back ok and this is your only problem. I pretty much told her everything I read showed different, but she assured me aspirin would be enough. Well, this time if she doesn't let me do the heparin I will be changing doctors even though supposedly this is the best in town.

Fluffy- did you bleed with this pregnancy? Or the others?

 

[fluffyblue]

Well funny story, I started the clexane at 4w 5days (think it was) and then on the 6 week scan which was at 5+3 I think (cant remember exactly) they misdiagnosed the ectopic. I stopped the clexane for 48 hours and had a slight bleed but then restarted it when they found bubs and havent bled since !

Im also on aspirin and have been since ovulation.

 

[fluffyblue]

With the others, first one at 6 weeks I bled from 5 weeks, second one spotted for around 10 days then fully miscarried, and the third one bled from BFP right to miscarriage at 8+6, miscarriage diagnosed at 9+4 and funnily enough in the third was bleeding light and heavy right up until I knew it had died then it dried to a manky discharge !

 

[Amos2009]

Thanks Fluffy....I just feel like that's my only option right now is to try Heparin. I don't know what else to do.

 

[fluffyblue]

I will never know if its worked for me but all I can say is somehow ive got to 22 weeks and am still going. I inject once a day and take an aspirin, I took a slightly elevated dose of folic acid from ttc through to 13 weeks and I took 200mg of progesterone from 2dpo to 13 weeks pregnant - I only showed 2 slight positives for the clotting issues, but if those slight positives have made the difference then its worth it.

Look at people like Laura Perry and MrsJD they had the same, ok jackie had NKC but she also took heparin/Clexane and Jenny is on the same too.

 

[BizyBee]

I am taking lovenox (similar to heparin). As far as I know, my clotting tests didn't reveal any issues but my FS uses it for recurring loss anyway. They also advised it because my ovaries are so enlarged right now. I believe it is helping and hope they'll keep me on it for a while. I never saw a heartbeat before this time. My hcg levels were rising extremely slowly. Then I started the lovenox and it shot up by the next week. It makes my bump look pretty scary (lots of bruising) and it hurts way worse than any other injection I've done, but it's worth it. I also take aspirin.

I've just been advised to keep taking lovenox, progesterone, & estrace, but I can stop the steroid dexamethasone.

 

[Amos2009]

Thanks everyone....I think this will be my one last shot so I want to do everything I can. I thought we already were, but apparently not

 

[ttcstill]

Good Morining Ladies...... Amos glad to see you trying to find steady ground to move forward on....

Welcome to all the new ladies!

I am completely confused.... for the last two day I have had signs of blood when I use the restroom. however no AF...... I wonder now if maybe we are getting a little to carried away when we DTD??? I dont know..... But still no AF I guess we will see what happens because I still need to order OV tests.