Second period missing after miscarriage

[Tche900]

Hi,

I’m currently waiting on my second period after miscarriage and struggling to work out why it’s not here. Wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation.

My background:
I had a miscarriage recently at 9 weeks (baby showed heartbeat but only measured 6 weeks on scan on day of miscarriage).

Miscarriage bleeding lasted just over a week and then test came back negative pretty quickly so I assumed it had all passed okay. Had what I thought was my first period about five weeks from the day of the miscarriage which felt like a normal period and lasted about 6 days which is usual for me.

I’m now awaiting my second period but it just isn’t coming. We’ve been ttc again so I wondered if I could be pregnant but all tests are coming back negative. I got ewcm twice this month so I did wonder if my body tried to ovulate but didn’t.

Pre-miscarriage I had long cycles (averaging about 32 days and fluctuating between 29-34 each month).

Waiting for my period is making me really depressed. I’m terrified something is wrong and I won’t be able to conceive again (it took us about 9 months the first time around and I’m over 30). Been scaring myself silly reading up about perimenopause.

Has anyone been through this or can anyone offer any words of wisdom?

Thanks x

Hey hun.

First of all, sorry to hear about your MC. Its such a horrible time made worse by your cycle being messed up.

I had 3 MC and on my 3rd one AF never returned. I was doing OPK to wait for a peak but I was getting days and days of really high tests. Turns out I was actually pregnant, DS is now 4. I have my FX that it is the same for you ❤

Thank you ♥️

That’s lovely to hear, glad yours was a positive outcome in the end.

Were your pregnancy tests showing negative? Mine still are so it doesn’t seem like pregnancy is possible but who knows.

Thanks for getting back to me anyway! X

I can't remember from the top of my head, sorry. I'm not sure whether they went negative and then I tested again and it was positive but I presume so? X

Hey, just wanted to let you know it was because I was pregnant, the test just took a while to show. Thank you for responding to me, fingers crossed this one sticks x

@Tche900 hi I'm currently in the same boat but slightly different.

I've had to back to back miscarriages. The last one I was 9/10 weeks and the baby stopped growing at 6 weeks. I had surgical management and bled for a week. I had a period 6 weeks after the last bleed but my hcg is still not zero. I've been having bloods at the EPU every week and they said I only have 7 hcg left this time last week. They told me I should be ovulating and having regular periods with only that remaining and that my last period should have been a natural one.

We've not been proactively TTC but I've been having niggly pains just after what I thought was ovulation. But still no period this month. I've don't pregnancy tests and they're still coming up positive even though my levels are below the threshold but not getting darker. So I'm stuck in this limbo with you

@chasingtherainbow1

Sorry to hear about your back to back miscarriages. Such a horrible thing to go through.

In the end I found out I was pregnant, it was just taking a long time to show up on tests. I’m about 9 weeks now so hoping this one sticks.

Your situation sounds really hard, especially as your tests are still showing positive. Sounds like you are getting help from the EPU but my GP was pretty good, immediately booked me in for lots of blood tests to check all my hormones were okay and to see if there is anything they can do to help kick start my period so maybe try yours if you’re getting nowhere?

I hope everything settles for you soon and things move forward one way or another, I was told that it can take some time but it’s really a kick in the teeth that things get messed up after a mc, all you want to do is get back to normal don’t you.

Got my fingers crossed everything works out for you