Recurrent miscarriage support, tests, treatments and trying again.

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Buckle up, the threads move like lightening! Tea, sympathy, information, support and combined wisdom to guide you through the maze of testing and treatment for recurrent miscarriage. Newbies always most welcome.

Please start with the traditional recap of your stats.

Hope all is ok with mini just. Maybe it's a good thing to be forced to stop so you don't overdo it. You will still be able to potter so hopefully you'll keep busy. Do you knit?

mrsd, thinking of you today. Fx all goes well with the scan x

Fingers crossed just

Yep, short cycles aren't so awful as long as there is enough time for the egg to implant. It makes sense that if generally the egg takes 5-9 days to implant, if AF arrives 7 days after OV, it's going to be difficult for the egg to implant and produce enough HCG for the body to recognise it shouldn't shed the lining.

Ive read lots about the follicular phase. The level of oestrogen produced in the first half is meant to have an impact on the level of progesterone produced in the second half. 28 days is given as the ideal as it allows enough oestrogen to be produced to create a mature egg and a decent lining. But I fell pregnant twice with short cycles so it's absolutely possible, no disputing that.

MiniJust has decided feet up watching Jeremy Kyle is far better than teaching stroppy teenagers!!!

tanny hope you had a good day yesterday. What a difference a year makes hey!

purple so exciting!!!

barking hope they listen to you and you get a day sorted around your dates for the biopsy.

mrsd hand holding being offered here

lol. To be fair, a level philosophy students in a bucks grammar school is hardly the archetypal secondary school experience. I know I'm lucky on that score

Good luck mrsd. I think you went to Coventry around the same time as me and very much willing you on x

Btw can anyone tell me why having stated I won't be doing an hpt this cycle at all I have decided this morning at 7dpo to POAS and now feel like total shit because it is obviously negative.

I really am such a twatty twat.

Hadn't read all the way, was working from where I left off, I can't remember more than a page at a time.

just you are certainly not having an easy time if it are you. So it seems you have mat leave forced upon you. Everyone will tell you to rest up and do things for you, and I know that's hard sometimes, and all you can think of is minijust, but soon enough you will be happily sleep deprived, so do try to rest up and do some nice things for you. Hope all is well.

mrsc if I had an osteopath/acupuncturist/lifecoach I would be thrilled and if they bailed on me I would not be happy! So feel free to moan. Seriously though, it is hard when people we come to rely on through all this shit take a step back. Hope they are practising from home soon.

sebs old habits and all that. Did you ttc this cycle in the end? Sorry for not keeping up..

Oh yes I TTC but first of all I don't expect for one second I will actually be pregnant as I am as fertile as a castrated donkey and secondly bloody 7dpo!! who even tests that early and thinks it has the potential to be positive? Just shows how warped my mind has become.

I know that feeling sebs. Did that last time and i think for me it was sort of a self preservation mechanism, so i got used to the idea of a bfn slowly (whilst i was completely expecting it to be negative) rather than building myself up to the big test then being disappointed.
I will be testing again from 7dpo this month due to the response trial, but don't expect anything for several days. Keeping everything crossed for you

Thanks March .

In fact I've just realised I do know why I'm being so ridiculous. I went to see a psychic after my MC because I was so desperate for some hope and she could see me falling pregnant this cycle. I know it's bullshit and i 99.9% know it won't happen but there is this tiny seed of hope that maybe she is amazingly accurate and the world doesn't actually hate me.

So that's why I'm staring at a totally negative test willing a line to be there! Of course when I could actually test and get a clear result I won't because I don't want to be upset

Hah Just are you sure about that? I went to Aylesbury High School

Aahhh I do miss living in Bucks sometimes. My Mum and Dad are still there so I do still "go home" regularly.

Are you giving birth at Stoke Mandeville?

Lol, Brummie, yes, I'm in Stoke Mandeville now, and planning to have miniJust here (although hopefully not today).

Hi everyone,
Not a regular here and apologies as I haven't read all the way thru the thread, but just really need some advice right now and hoping you can help.

(Me: 38, 1 DD, 7 mc's, sticky blood, hypo thyroid, mthfr, seeing Prof Regan, currently pg 5+2, heparin + aspirin)

I've been on heparin and aspirin since last Tuesday, but i'm getting really worried about the bruising. (I've got one which is about 6 inches long and 4 inches across) I popped in to my gp to see the nurse about it this morn, and she said I should def see a doctor soon and was surprised we weren't checking coags. So i have a gp appointment tomorrow and i'm supposed to have another appointment at st Marys next week. But frankly i'm freaking out that I'm going to sneeze and have a brain haemorrhage or something ??. I know it sounds stupid but I really am. I'm seriously considering stopping taking it.

Anyone going/ been through anything similar? I feel completely nuts.

just Wow, baby certainly likes to keep you on your toes! Don't feel bad about the early start of mat leave, it can be really nice! Make sure you have lots of little projects going on to give you some structure, that helped me a lot.

Thinking of you mrsD

Well, I'm spotting again. Or at least I was first thing this morning when I got up. Haven't been to the loo since because I'm scared Sigh. I really feel I've had my fair share of scares and worries, why can't it just be easy and straightforward for once?!

bobs I'm on both heparin and aspirin as well. The bruising is totally normal, and yes, you will get some proper big ones. And they take ages to fade again, and they can be really sore. Don't worry too much - some people tend to bruise more than others, and they come and go. If you are worried, call St Mary's and ask them about it, but I really wouldn't stop the treatment until you have spoken to someone who has experience with this (which most likely will not be your GP - with all respect, but they are clueless).

Oh Cloud, it's not going to be easy for either of us. Plenty of hand holding from me, fellow Ostrich in the sand!

Just, sorry to hear more bleeding. Think mini just wants to watch Homes under the Hammer- was always a feed watch with DD for us.

Thanks cloud i can't tell you how reassuring it is to hear someone say that. I'm driving myself crazy. I kept waking up last night with nightmares about being bitten all over my stomach by spiders
Have you rotated injection sites to thighs or upper arms at all? I'm getting mixed advice on doing that. You're right I should call St Marys.
Sorry about your spotting, big hugs, fingers crossed for you. X

Bobs, welcome. I was on heparin until 13 weeks and had a few whopping bruises. I agree, bypass your GP and ask St Mary's. Good luck!
Cloud, sorry to hear you're spotting again. Such a worry. Thinking of you.

cloud and girlie enormous hugs. I have everything tightly crossed for both of you.

just sorry to hear there's more bleeding. I would try and embrace mat leave now. Mine starts on Friday and tbh I can't wait. Felt fine at this point with dd but this time I am tired and vomiting again for some reason. Plus I can't concentrate on work. Too excited!

sasha you asked for positive stories. I don't want to bang on about mine as know so many are struggling but after 3 mcs and 18 months ttc I got my sticky bfp and am now almost at term. Apart from silly anxiety and gestational diabetes it's been plain sailing. Didn't really do anything different except tried agnus castus. Maybe that sorted my progesterone levels, maybe it was just my lucky time, not sure, but now I know about my pcos and my tendency towards insulin resistance I would try ac and low gi diet if I ever ttc again. Not planning on it though. The past two years have been so much heartache and I just want to stop and enjoy what I have now.

Cloud and Girlie I'm really rooting for you both -whilst knicker checking constantly-

Sorry sebs if it looked like I wasn't responding properly. Its just that to me testing at 7dpo isn't mad at all. I am like march and generally start testing very early when I know it will be negative as then the let down if it continues to be neg isn't so severe. I have even been tempted to test on months where there has been no dtd!! Ridiculous. So I identify x

cloud sorry the spotting is causing you worry again

bobs so sorry for your losses. What dose of heparin are you on? Hopefully the others bruising tales are providing you with reassurance.

Thanks bootles and just.

20mg clexane 1 x daily and 75mg aspirin. It is reassuring to hear of others with whopping bruises, although that obviously sucks for them! I think the nurse here just freaked me out and made me feel like there's something really wrong.