TTC after miscarriage April/May 2020

Hi Everyone!
I hope it is okay that I hope on here!

I miscarried at "11 weeks" although pregnancy was deemed unviable at 8 weeks. Baby only grew until 6 weeks. Had to take misoprotosol as nothing was happening on its own.

Bleeding was about one week - on day 11 I had really bad lower pain on one side and back - I thought I was getting sick but I think maybe if possible this had something to do with ovulation. Days 12, 13, 14, 15 I had plenty EWCM (egg-white cervical mucus) and no more bleeding. We TTC (trying to conceive) all of those days - as these threads have given me comfort on not waiting a cycle if feeling well.

I am now one week past ovulation and feeling a bit queasy and tired - similar to one week after I was pregnant the first time. On day 12 my BETA was 95HCG. It will be interesting to see if it was possible to conceive with it in my system... Will need to wait one more week before a test.

Has anyone knowingly ovulated with HCG in their system?

@DisneyMummySince2010

Thank you! I get my HCG levels tested again tomorrow since I miscarried. Husband and I are really hoping this is a new pregnancy. If not, we want to get the 'go ahead' soon, since my husband will be leaving next month for work for the next 4-6months.

Hello everyone, I’ve been following this thread but never got the courage to post.

Here’s my story:
I found out I was pregnant on 9 April, my husband and I were SO happy since we’ve been TTC since November 2019 and this would be our first baby. Based off LMP I would be 5wks. Exactly 1wk later (16 April), I started spotting which progressed to light bleeding within an hour. I was so worried that I decided to go to the ER (luckily I work in a hospital, so it was just a quick walk down the hall) They conducted 2 types of ultrasounds. The doc said that they couldn’t see anything because it may be ‘too early’ and that there was nothing wrong in my Fallopian tubes, so they ruled out ectopic pregnancy. The doc diagnosed me w/ ‘Threatened Miscarriage w/ pregnancy of unknown location’ and mentioned to my OB of what was going on. The next day I received a call from an OB nurse who informed me they will conduct an ultrasound in 2wks to see if anything progressed. Even though I knew I shouldn’t stress, the ‘waiting game’ was killing me. I wanted answers...

I continued to have light bleeding the next 4days with small clots here and there. Then on the 5th day, while I was in a meeting, I felt like I had bled through my uniform. I rushed to the bathroom, looked and saw my pad almost completely full after just changing it a little over an hour ago. As I’m sitting in the ER patient room, I felt this gush (sorry TMI) was coming out. I rushed to the bathroom and I was just passing so much clots. The doc came in and did a pelvic exam, first thing she said was she could see a big clot trying to pass and took it out with forceps, put it in a test cup, then sent it to pathology. She also saw that my cervix was open and informed me to prepare for the worse. I asked the nurse who was with her if they were confirming that I’m miscarrying and the nurse just tried to calm me down. They had me do another vaginal ultrasound, but the technician could not answer any of my questions about what she saw. After about an hour since the ultrasound, the doc came in and confirmed that I was in the process of miscarrying. I felt like the walls were closing in on me, I had no one there to comfort me since they told my husband he could not be in there with me because of COVID. After I was discharged, I took a few days off of work and decided to rest. Resting did help a lot, bleeding slowed down as the days passed.

My husband and I decided we were ready to try again as soon as I stop bleeding. Fast forward to 2wks later (since 16 April), bleeding stopped. Husband and I were quick to start trying again, had unprotected sex 3 times. Light spotting came a day later (super light pink/brown discharge sorry TMI) I haven’t had my period since finding out I was pregnant, so I’m hoping this is AF making her visit so I can get back to tracking when I’m ovulating.

Took a pregnancy test because I wasn’t sure if my HCG levels had even dropped, and got a BFP...

I’m so confused what is going on, and I’m hoping my husband and I can conceive soon.

@Minster2012 Haha yep! The wishing your life away stage 😂

@TerribleImagination ahhhh the stage that lasts forever (mind you that’s every stage!)

@Minster2012 I’m 7DPO... totally at the ‘try and ignore every twinge / potential symptom and tell yourself repeatedly it could be either or’ stage 😂

@Terribleimagination where are you in TWW?
I look at the sticks after using @DisneyMummySince2010 but I haven’t got a peak yet but there’s often a faint line

@DisneyMummySince2010 Ooh welcome to the 2WW! 🥰

@DisneyMummySince2010 Yeah I always look at the line, but then I always take it out straight away, so I don’t know if they fade maybe? I definitely notice them getting darker on the flashing days... I can usually tell when I test with FMU which day it’ll turn to static with a later test just from the darkness of the line.

Saying that though, it’s never super dark. I don’t use the other OPK’s, but I’ve never seen a clear blue line as dark as the positive cheapie pics you see on here. I only notice from both lines being similar darkness.

@DisneyMummySince2010 yay!! Get on it!! 🌈🌈🥰

Thanks @DisneyMummySince2010 😍 I’m crossing everything for this month!!

@Minster2012 I’ve only had one other peak this late in the cycle since I’ve started tracking and that was my first full cycle after the MC. I got my peak on CD16 then and that was a 29 day cycle.

@TerribleImagination can I ask how long you think your cycles are for ovulation at CD17?

@DisneyMummySince2010 That’s so strange... Hopefully you get it soon?
Yeah I got mine CD17! I’m CD20 now and knackered from 4 days in a row DTD! 🤣 Switching to every 2-3 days now for the rest of the month and hoping that does the trick 🤞🏻

@DisneyMummySince2010 Have you been retesting with them in the afternoon too, or just FMU?

Thanks for the welcome and well wishes @minster12 & @Sallyjo27
Plan on doing another Frer on Friday next (if can hold out that long...man its hard especially when previous BFNs are not equalling all these symptoms im experiencing)
Will update in due course & thanks for letting me jump on in!

@Funsize12 I’d definitely call your doctor to see what they say, seems very odd

@Sallyjo27 hi! Sorry for your recurring losses, hoping this is your year. It’s tough in lockdown not going to lie, my hubby is working & we are lucky to have a toddler who is manic so it’s full on for hours & hours

@Babytobe welcome too, big 🤞🏻🤞🏻Those BFNs are wrong

@DisneyMummySince2010 I’m okay thank you just waiting for AF now. Was due on today but I know things can take a while to settle.

@babytobe they really are but I’m trying to be positive. 2021 babys to look forward to.

How is everyone coping with lockdown? I’m finding it hard as all I’m thinking of is TTC

Hope you are doing okay @Sallyjo27 . Any miscarriage is heartbreaking & soul destroying in equal measure, never mind recurrent ones. Its such a strange phase of life to have to experience but it does get easier. Hoping for everyone on here that this is our year