Very nervously joining. Got BFP last Wednesday when I was 9 and 10 dpo (as I suspect I ovulated on both sides this cycle). Have tested daily and yesterday's FRER at 13-14dpo had the test line the same colour as the control line. For me this is a miracle that I hope will last.
My history is I am 40 and have 2 sons, both conceived first time of trying, no spotting, no treatment or drugs, no issues at all until it came to giving birth when ds1 was cat 1 EMCS and because of going back to back and being big, ds2 was an ELCS that also needed forceps to yank him out!
Then had a spontaneous MC in Sept 2013, a MMC a few months later and then since then I have had another 10 early losses all between 4-5 1/2 weeks.
I had standard NHS tests. Was told positive for lupus anti
Coagulant and told it's easy to treat with clexane. Except I still kept losing them. Went to the Inplantation Clinic at Coventry and they said my uterine natural killer cells were normal. Said to use progesterone and diagnosed me with polycystic ovaries and put me on metformin for which I will always be thankful. But still kept losing them. Also went back to Coventry on the NHS to see if the Tommy's trial could help me. Prof Q ran extra blood tests on me but all was normal. I couldn't be on a trial as my cycles were too long. They repeated the scratch and biopsy but my uterine NK cells were still normal. They did a new CD138 infection test which I tested positive for and it's suspected the infection may have come from the ERPC I had for the MMC as I haven't had one last as far as 6 weeks since the ERPC. Took strong antibiotics. After a year on metformin my cycles have shortened to an almost normal length of 31-34 days. Went to see Mr Shehatas clinic on the NHS at Epsom hospital. They found I had high blood natural killer cells, although thankfully the activity wasn't bad and that my TSH was higher than they think it should be to stay pregnant. Put me on Levothyroxine which over the first 6 weeks dropped my TSH to 0.91. Also put me on baby aspirin, omega 3, vit d. Also prescribed prednisolone from ovulation, and then ranitidine and progesterone from BFP, plus fragmin instead of clexane.
My last 3 BFP's that I tested daily all faltered from 14 dpo and the test lines would reach a plateau and then fade. The line I had yesterday is far stronger than any line I have had before so I'm hopeful that this might finally be a happy ending. I'm hoping to be scanned a week today to ensure sac location (s) are in the right place and taking it one day at a time for now.
So I really hope that I will be on this thread until October, I would have to have an ELCS at 39 weeks but can't contemplate EDD yet.
Hope my history is of help to anyone who finds themselves having a loss. Coventry and Epsom are not well known and yet they are there to help people above and beyond what your local hospital will do. (Although would be lovely if there are no more MC's on this thread being old and wise I know that won't be the case)