Success stories with progesterone pessaries after multiple chemicals please??

[WillowRose1411]

Hiya!
I’ve just had my 4th chemical since January. I’m charting which indicates I am ovulating and I do have a slight temperature rise after ovulation, so no known progesterone issue that I know of?
I usually lose the pregnancy a day or two after a positive pregnant test/missed period so really really early. But it just keeps happening!
Just spoken to a private consultant who has prescribed me progesterone pessaries to try for 3 cycles.
I wondered if anyone had any success stories of similar please or any helpful advice or knowledge to add on the subject?
Thanks so much for reading

Bump

I have a really short luteal phase 9/10 days and couldn't understand why. Temp used to only drop on day 2/3 of my cycle (not before my period) like it should. After 6 months of ttc i decided to pregnancy test at 10dpo. I had already started my period but I just wanted to check as I'd never bothered doing a pregnancy test before as just assumed if my period came it meant I wasn't pregnant! The test was positive but my period came and I lost it. I then realised I'd probably had loads of chemical pregnancies but just didn't know about them. I saw a consultant privately. I was given progesterone suppositories. It worked straight away and I got pregnant the month following the chemical. Unfortunately that pregnancy was a missed miscarriage and I found out at 11 weeks. I'm hoping to try again soon and will be taking the progesterone again. Good luck x

Yep! Also took low dose aspirin.

Hi @WillowRose1411 I can't give you any success stories yet but I'm in the same boat - have had 4 miscarriages around the 6 week mark, but did carry on pregnancy to term completely textbook. I'm now on progesterone pessaries and got a BFP on Sunday - sadly I think I'm losing this one too but we live in hope. And there are so many factors beyond low progesterone. Anyway, solidarity, I hope we both get our sticky beans soon.

@CH2205 and @ladycarlotta I’m so sorry for your losses again 😔
Is there a higher chance of mmc using the pessaries as they force the embryo to stick even if they aren’t viable? I’m really scared to start using them incase that happens or if they just don’t work. I’m just fed up with everything, trying to remain positive but it’s hard.
My consultant told me it’s either low progesterone or the eggs are not viable, if it’s the latter then ivf is my only option really. Which I’m not sure we’d do.
I also have low egg reserve for my age, I’m 31.
Solidarity! Hope we get our sticky beans soon! ♥️

@WillowRose1411 Thankyou. Im really sorry for your losses too. I would definitely give the progesterone a go. I 100% think it's what worked for me. I think I was just really unlucky because I had a scan at 6 and 7.5 weeks and saw a heart beat, baby was correct size for dates, bloods were good so it was such a shock to find at 11 weeks something had gone wrong. I'm definitely planning to take progesterone again next time though x

@CH2205
Oh that must have been so gutting for you 💔 did you pay privately for the scans or convince your midwife/gp to let you have them? The whole thing terrifies me but really hoping it works out soon!
When are you going to try again? I’m due to ovulate in about a week, hoping I have the pessaries by then x

@WillowRose1411 when I spoke to the consultant she was really clear that the pessaries will only help IF your problem is low progesterone - she said that if the embryo was not viable then progesterone wouldn't help it, so I don't believe that it would artificially extend a non-viable pregnancy. I do worry about that too tbh but miscarriage is based on way more factors than just progesterone.

That's why the pessaries only really help a small proportion of women, and why women with a history of early loss are good candidates for it bc that indicates that low progesterone could be the reason their pregnancies don't stick in the first place, whereas miscarriage later in the first trimester is more likely to be to do with the development of the foetus.

I'm definitely miscarrying now. Gutted but... we go again. I'm willing to give it another go with the pessaries.

@CH2205 so sorry for your loss. It must be a huge kick in the teeth to get past that first hurdle and then miscarry.

@ladycarlotta I'm so so sorry you're going through it again. I hope you are ok. It must be so hard. I've also carried a pregnancy to full term too previously (medication free) (I have a 6 year old) and so I have absolutely no idea why trying for number 2 has been such a struggle for us. I am 36 but it's not that old! Im convinced it's my progesterone due to my short luteal phase and also the fact that as soon as I started the pessaries I conceived straight away.

@WillowRose1411 I had the 6 week scan in hospital as I was getting one sided pain so was checked for ectopic pregnancy. I then had a private scan at 7.5 weeks as that's what I did when I had my little boy and I just wanted that reassurance. Once I found out it was a missed miscarriage at 11 weeks I opted for surgery. I only had that in July and have only just got back to 'normal'. I'm going to wait till I've had my 2nd covid vaccine before we try again xx

I had 4 miscarriages in a row. Blood tests and scans all showed everything was normal including my progesterone levels.

However I started myself on 150mg aspirin a day from 1dpo and had a bfp. The EPU scanned me and saw a heartbeat at 5+4 which is something we’d never got as far as in any of the losses.

They decided to start me on progesterone to take until 16 weeks.

I took this along with the aspirin and am now 36 weeks pregnant!

My midwife and consultant both agreed that had I not already started myself on the aspirin they would have started me on it.

I fully credit the aspirin rather than the progesterone pessaries as all tests had indicated my progesterone levels were high enough to easily sustain a pregnancy.

I continued to take the aspirin up until today when I turned 36 weeks (as recommended by my consultant).

@Moominmiss did you have the blood test for anti phospholipid syndrome and it was all ok? And you still took aspirin and it helped?
I’ve been told that aspirin would only help if I had the blood clotting disorder that causes miscarriages which I’ve been told I don’t have? Just curious if you had it or self medicated and it helped anyway

@WillowRose1411 no I didn’t have aps, but decided to self medicate after reading so many positive stories about aspirin seeming to help so many women.

It’s the best thing I’ve done, and tbh after 4 losses I felt I had nothing left to lose. If it worked then great, and if it didn’t then what had I lost!

@Moominmiss thank you, yes very true. I’ve just had loss number 4 too so totally understand your reasoning!

@WillowRose1411 how did you get on with the progesterone pessaries? I've just ovulated and have started mine. I'm really hoping they help again! 🤞🏻

@Moominmiss my consultant has also told me to take aspirin but he said to start once I get a positive pregnancy test. I know you said in your post you started at 1dpo - was there a reason for that? What made you start it then? X

Hi @CH2205 the pessaries worked for me first go, I’m currently 8 week pregnant with number 3 🤞🏼
I’m a nervous wreck, constantly thinking the worst is going to happen but I have a scan on Monday hoping it’ll ease my worrying a little.
Best of luck to you and hoping they work!

@CH2205 I’d read a fair bit about how aspirin can help in aiding implantation by stopping the blood clotting or becoming too thick to allow implantation so thought it was worth a try as I felt I had nothing to lose.
Obviously my pregnancies had been implanting otherwise I wouldn’t have ever got positives, but I wanted to try and give everything the best possible chance. I’ll never know if taking it from my positive would have had the same effect, but just the fact I had such a good positive test at 8dpo, just makes me think taking it from ovulation helped.

@WillowRose1411 that's such amazing news! Huge Congratulations! That's so great it worked first month for you!!
I really hope they help me again 🤞🏻 I'm so scared but I've done everything I can this month. I've also taken Clomid (I ovulate every month but one month it can be day 13 the next it's day 23 so consultant gave me clomid to help regulate). I'm now 1dpo and I've started up the progesterone pessaries so fingers crossed 🤞🏻 x

@Moominmiss thanks so much for the advice. I didn't know it could help with implantation. I think I'll see how I go with the plan to start from a positive pregnancy test but if no luck I'll ask my consultant if it's ok for me to take after ovulation Xx

@CH2205 sadly I had a scan today and no fetal pole was found so looks like loss number 5 for me. I am beyond devastated, this was the furthest I’d got and actually had some hope. I’m assuming the pessaries did what I had feared and artificially maintained a non viable pregnancy? I’m obviously stopping them in the Hope that I miscarry naturally but failing that will be going into hospital to have it removed.
I wish you all the best for this cycle
Laura x

So sorry to hear that.

@WillowRose1411 I'm so so sorry to hear this. It's such a horrible shock when something is found on a scan. I know how hard it is but try not to give up hope. I hope you can get some support from the hospital or your consultant. Look after yourself and take your time to recover xx

Hi @WillowRose1411 was just wondering how you are? I hope you are doing ok? What were you advised in the end?

I had a faint positive pregnancy test yesterday at 11dpo so I rung the hospital to see about starting my other medication (ie the aspirin and clexanne injections). They decided to do a HCG blood test and the result came back at 7 😭 any thing over 5 is a pregnant result but 7 is very low so I think it's another chemical pregnancy for me - this will my 3rd miscarriage in a row now. I'm so fed up!

Im still on the progesterone suppositories and worried by staying on them I'm just preventing the inevitable. What did you do in the end? Im waiting for the nurse to call me with advice on what to do but I just know it's not good news 😞

By the way I changed my tag name incase you wonder who this is! It was CH2205 x