Hi @amkw I write this long post in another topic this morning. Some of it is probably not relevant for you but I’ll copy and paste it here:
“Will share my story here.
Currently sitting here watching my 9 week old baby sleeping so peacefully in his cot.
I had a successful IVF/ICSI treatment last year in August/September. I had it with Create Fertility. Had a lot of side effects from the initial medication (Bemfola, Cetrotide and the HCG trigger don’t remember the name) and then Cyclogest. Felt nauseous, bloated, kept going to the toilet sometimes 5 times a day.. The day after the embryo transfer I started feeling unwell I’m the evening, started sweating, pulse was high, shaking and a little bit of blood came out so I thought the treatment hadn’t worked. It lasted for a few hours. The 2 week wait was stressful as I kept having all those symptoms (Cyclogest gave me a lot of side effects) and I just thought if the treatment hasn’t worked I just wanna stop taking Cyclogest as they have me so many side effects. Anyway I decided to take the first pregnancy test 10 days after embryo transfer and to my surprise it was positive, very faint positive but it was positive. I kept doing tests for the next 3 days and on the official test day it was still positive. The next few weeks was fukl
of anxiety as I kept thinking I’ll have a miscarriage, so I did pregnancy tests every 3-4 days. Had my scan at the clinic at week 7, think I went toilet that morning 3-4 times before the scan because I was so nervous (sorry tmi) 😂 scan showed a baby with a heartbeat of 128 🙏🏻
2 days after the scan I went toilet and when I wiped there was a little bit of fresh blood, spoke to midwife who said it was probably just sensitive cervix after the scan no blood after. Then the week after I started having dark brown spotting, was referred for a scan at the hospital (spotting lasted 2 days), I thought I had miscarried and had to wait 4 days for the scan but scan was fine and they said spotting is probably because of cyclogest and they could see a tiny hematoma. Spotting started again 1-2 weeks after don’t remember exactly how long after and I had spotting from week 8-16, had 2-3 scans in that period. I was very anxious but scans showed that baby was fine. Then saw consultant at week 16 who said spotting is very normal when you’re on Cyclogest but it doesn’t mention that in the leaflet under side effects. He started me on Aspirin and said the community midwife should of started that at week 12.
Aspirin dose was 150mg once a day.
After that had quite a few trips to the hospital with reduced/changed movement and gave birth by an emergency c/section at week 39+3
So don’t give up there’s hope ❤️ And please do update us 💐 All the best xx