TTC After MC 12: Hopeful Twats and Emotional Wrecks welcome!

Sorry lime I entirely missed your post earlier - such wonderful news on the cysts and lining!

Juniper, please keep posting those lovely bfp pictures! We all love them!

Guys I have a bit of a wobble I need to get off my chest and you're the only ones I can be open about it with. Please feel free to virtually slap me and tell me to get a grip...

I have all the symptoms. All of them. I think I'm imagining them because I shouldn't technically have even ovulated. However, a week before my af I had ewcm, then I had a weird brown clotty period with no fresh blood in it and got ewcm 2 days after that finished. I had an uneasy feeling it wasn't my af and put it down to either more mc bleeding or a weird first af post mc but now I seem to have all these strange symptoms. I feel nauseous in waves, have an aversion to certain food, am sensitive to what seems like every smell, my boobs hurt like an absolute bitch, particularly around the sides and underneath, and my nipples are darker.

Why am I doing this to myself? Bloody HT. I also told myself I wouldn't test until I was a full week late on my period and that's not for another THREE WEEKS if I count that last bleed as af. Help me and pass the wine too

Juniper don't ever apologise for a bfp pic, not on this thread. ❤️

Lime I'm still worrying because I'm getting faint squinter on HPTs! My next stage will definitely be the 'oh my god! What if I don't ovulate?! What if it's the menopause!' Stage. Fun times. I don't drink but could probs plump for a instead!

Nocats- did you ever monitor ov in any way before?

A friend used the pricey cv machine and just found it made her poor and paranoid ... not helpful I know.

Msjuniper that is a lovey bfp pic. Darker?

Lime - good idea. Anything for sanity right?

lime I'm in that what if the mc has stopped me ovulating camp. I feel the crazy lady appearing again, which I thought I'd suppressed. I'm one for throwing money at the fertility situation. I find a new toy gives me hope, when I struggled to conceived ds2 I got fed up after 14months never even getting pregnant so I bought a clearblue fertility monitor, after 4 months I finally fell pregnant. I'm not sure the machine did anything amazing, but I felt like it helped. However that month I also had reflexogy and tried drinking Venos cough medicine for extra ewcm!!!

Mmmmm wine haha, don't blame you at all!
I think £100 for a fertility kit is a lot! So I guess it has to be something special!
I'm sorry you are currently worried about ovulation :( but I am hopeful that it can't just disappear. Some women don't ovulate every cycle, so charting mine will be interesting.
I hope things work out for you x

go for it lime. I hear you x

No experience of the monitor but a bbt thermometer will only set you bank £16

I'm having a glass of wine tonight and treating next month as a fresh cycle. It's unlikely I ovulated this month going by my scan results. I might start temping and doing the sticks... has anyone tried that clear blue gadget that costs over 100 quid? Some fertility monitor? Is it worth it?

My new worry: what if I don't ovulate ever again!

With miscarriage I find taking each step at a time helps... surgical management, getting mc bleeding to stop, first period, first time trying again etc etc. BUT there seems to be a new worry at each stage too... what if my period doesn't show up? What if it's too light? Or too heavy?

I'm now at the "what if I'm not ovulating stage"

I need wine

yellow and emvy thanks for your support. Got my basal body temperature and ov sticks today so trying my best to treat it as a new adventure. Even though I miscarried, I didn't use any of this stuff before. So I am hoping it will tell me a little about my fertility etc.
Sorry I haven't commented on anyone else's post, it's such a popular thread and I can do possibly read everyone's and comment but I will try my best as time goes on.
Good luck for everyone here!

Also thank you Annie!

Lime that is good news about your cysts. It does sounds like you didn't ovulate, maybe your body was holding itself back while they were being fixed?

I'm supposed to contact the RMC and the medical trial people but I haven't yet. I am supposed to be having a procedure (hysteroscopy) in September and I don't want to have that cancelled if it doesn't stick. I figured I'll give it till next week.

Have any of you read It Starts With The Egg? I followed all the mc related advice and based my vits on that. Ubiquinol, vit C, Myo-Inisitol and Folate as well as pregnacare conception. I've stopped the ubiquinol and vit c since the positive test. I've also just been reading about Magnesium. So hard to know though.

We LOVE a BFP Juniper, well I do. I know we've all had losses and it's a pile of miserable crap, and obviously an amazing place to share stuff, but we're officially gathering to TTC so post away love! x

Have you had an HCG test and getting a follow up?

I'm going to keep fingers and toes (can't do eyes) crossed for you till we have good news.

Awesome news Lime! Glad all's getting back on track. It's a good feeling.

I asked about it at the RMC when we had our first appointment in Jan. He said no need. Then had all the blood tests, clear for everything, but after 4th loss in Feb he said to try it. Increases blood flow to the uterus (and everywhere, presumably).

Done sod all for me so far but I feel better trying something and following his advice. Despite no diagnosis despite tests I have had 4 mcs now so something's clearly wrong....

I take a veggie friendly pregnancy multivit, cheap and on amazon. Separate vit D, and a probiotic. Since I started TTC 18 months ago I've had cystitis x 2, thrush x 2, and a post op infection, it's been a barrel of laughs, so I take the probiotic everyday as I've hammered the crap out if my insides on antibiotics!

I had family members who said "why don't you try aspirin" and had anecdotes about people they knew etc. I was too scared to try it not on medical advice though. Slightly annoying when that was the advice I got from the RMC after a year of appts!

I felt like my symptoms were disappearing today but I caved and bought a Frer which is darker than yesterday. I've attached the pic, sorry if it is upsetting for anyone and sorry for complaining when I know lots of you are desperate to see this. (For those who've just joined, I've had 6 mc including 3 cps so am assuming the worst). Wish I could I could shut my brain off from thinking about it all.

Well if you've been planning a dog for a while Bertie, I'd go for it! Do you have any other dogs?

In relation to vitamins, I just take folic acid and vitamin d as those were the ones recommended by my gp when we started ttc. Apparently, most brits don't get enough vitamin d, even in summer, and we should be taking them all the time, whether ttc or not! I've considered the pregnancy multi vitamins but as my folic acid and vitamin d never run out at the same time, I've never bothered and just ended up continually replacing those! I really doubt the pregnacare caused your mc. Nothing you did caused your mc. This is mostly the case unless you do some pretty drastic, as far as I'm aware. You're more than fine to carry on taking the pregnacare or just individual vitamins, I wouldn't stress yourself out too much with it but it's a good idea to have a focus

Oh Bertie now you're swaying me back the other way regarding aspirin! This is why I didn't try it last time. Maybe I won't...

Good news! My cysts have gone! They appeared after my loss and needed to be monitored. My body is getting back to normal. My lining was 8mm thick better than the 2mm after my erpc.

Now I'm day 15 and had thought I ovulated already... but the scan revealed no follicles, no sign of corpus leuteum, no free fluid... all of these point to no egg released right?! I thought that a corpus Leuteum was needed to provide progesterone for the early pregnancy.

I bet that I didn't do it this month! How annoying.

Welcome to the newbies. Sorry you find yourself here.

I would just take the low dose (75mg) Fox unless you have medical advice. I had 2 blood tests across 3 months to test for stickiness so that's the main reason I have been prescribed 150.

As another poster said it is a blood thinner and shouldn't be taken without any caution.

So sorry for your losses Fox

Look after yourself bliss, hot water bottle, the good drugs, something sweet! And yes, very sensible advice on aspirin. Fox you just buy the low dose which is 75mg in the chemist or superdrug or wherever.

A puppy Bertie! Do your stairs rule out any dog or just particular ones? Sorry af still hanging around.

Mouth temping is more convenient but I was getting mad jaggedy mountain lines and FF suggested trying up the fanjo and has stopped berating me since so I'll stick with it for now

Looks like af is here for me. Bloody painful as usual. Great.

I think I will start temping again in a few days and if I remember I may finish off the cheap opks that I have.

I have no plans to take aspirin yet, and my little medical head is urging those who want to start taking it to just run it past your gp first. It's a blood thinner too so remember to tell dentist and other people if they ask.

Can't help myself sorry.

I'm so sad to see new people here too, but you have found a lovely place to vent and get support.

I'm going to try and exercise in an attempt to not lay in bed and eat cake. Wish me luck.

Fox I think the main reason they say to wait is for dating purposes. Unless there were complications/infections etc. I have been in your position at your age and I'm still going age 41 so personally I'd recommend trying again as soon as you feel able.

I had a meeting with a prospective employee this morning who announced she was pregnant. Completely blindsided me. Managed not to cry. She said she understood if we didn't want to consider her but she is a good candidate and I don't want to overlook someone for that reason. On the selfish side I don't want to work with someone who is pregnant!