Sticky Blood and Asprin

[Matt1664]

Hi all

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, first time poster! I was pointed to this site by one of my friends and hoping I can get some advise and wanted to see if any one had any experience of the above and to get some advice from the community.

currently myself and my wife are trying for our first child, she has suffered 3 confirmed miscarriages and we suspect there may have been a couple more where she was late but we never got round to testing. We have been to the Dr's in relation to this and to be honest wasn?t treated very well and had to push for tests etc, she has had all the tests done including scans and they the results were they feel she may have sticky blood (her father does have this as well) the solution the Dr's gave us was to take 75mg of Aspirin which she has been taking along with her folic acid.

She has been on this for about 5 months now and since then she has had another 2 miscarriages, currently trying to get further appointments with the Dr's but was wondering if any one out there has any experience of this or if they continued to have Miscarriage's after being advised to take aspirin.

Many thanks

Matt

Hi Matt. There are a bunch of us on the Prednisolone thread who are being treated for blood and/or immunology issues. Most of the ladies there (except me) have had more than one miscarriage. Most of us are on the low dose aspirin in combination with other drugs.

From everything I have read on these and other boards, miscarriage support on the NHS seems pretty woefully poor. After 3+ miscarriages she really needs to be seen by a specialist. She might also consider being tested for something called natural killer cells. These are part of the immune system and can attack the embryo/placenta stopping implantation or causing a miscarriage. Most of the ladies on the Pred thread have been diagnosed with higher than normal levels of these kinds of cells. You might want to ask Qs on that thread in case other posters from there don't spot your question. We are a friendly bunch and willing to share the knowledge that we have picked up along the way!

I am so sorry to hear about your wife's miscarriages. I had three early miscarriages before being diagnosed with 'sticky blood'. My consultant put me on aspirin pre pregnancy and clexane when the pregnancy was confirmed. Sadly, I miscarried again even with this. However, my next pregnancy was successful (if worrying!) and I now have a wonderful eight month old son. Can you ask your Dr if clexane injections are a possibility? From what I understand the success rate is much higher with this and aspirin as compared to aspirin alone.

I think the treatment for sticky blood includes heparin/clexane as well as aspirin? Your poor DW and poor you, so many losses, you must be heartbroken.

Where in the country are you based? The best place for this would be a specialist RMC. If you are in london push to get referred to St marys in Paddington, they are the 'leaders' in blood probs and RMC and run some tests that only they do. The immunes issue is also something you should look into. St Mary's don;t believe in it (yet) but the success rates seems to be very strong indeed for some people on this sort of treatment. There are only a few places that believe in it/treat it though, a few are in London and I believe Care in nottingham and Liverpool also treat it.

I really wish you the best of luck in the future

Hi Matt so sorry for your losses. Are you just seeing GP or hospital Drs. You should be referred to a recurrent miscarriage clinic (RMC) not just to gynae. How long have you been TTC ? Very frustrating if her dad has sticky blood and no aspirin alone does not sound right. Good luck . There is an NHS RMC. In Birmingham if you are further north

Hi all many thanks for all of your kind replies, the information is great and we have been reading through some of the old topics which have also been a great help. On the subject of celxane I did ask about this at the time and was told that my wife?s test results did not warrant that, unsure if this is true or not or a NHS budget save!
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e have been TTC for about 2 years now, and yeah things are getting stressful! My wife also blames herself and is so cut up about it. Will def be going back to the Drs Then and will be pushing for a referral and further tests information and will look on the other suggested topic as well.

Again thank you all for your help

Matt