Recurrent Miscarriage Support Thread 27 - Tests, Treatments and Trying Again

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Tea, hugs, a wealth of collective knowledge and lots of hand holding as we try again. This thread moves like lightning so hold on to your hats!
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Just doing a little test. Please ignore.

Link to the RMC investigations information

Do any of you ladies not temp and just use opk for ovulation? Bit worried now as lady on Ttc thread has said you can get positive opk but not ovulate? So how do you know?

emerald I have never temp'd and only used opks. Since the mcs I think I am more sensitive though and get one sided cramp when ov'ing. I also get lots of ewcm the day of ov so combine these signs with pos opk to determine date.

Just had a good ol' nosey at the feb ante natal thread brummie!! Eeeek!! Never seen so many deleted posts! Must've been bad because the c word was on one and still not deleted, ha ha!

Flen**, nearly time xxx thinking of you waiting and hand holding Xxx

Belle** - yes! I am Catholic, only one born here in england, parents born n raised in Glasgow, rest of them in Dublin and Toronto. I nneed to begin a novena to St Martha - i really really do. And St Gerard - patron saint of all issues relating to birth/begetting of babies. (The terrible thing, that i havn't said to anyone, is that i feel like this situation is my punishment. I had a termination in 2009, before i was married. Plus i still havn't had ds baptised. I don't think my personal concept of God diesn't match that at all. But it's hard to shake the old beliefs. I really need some councelling...)

Oh Brummie**! I'll be straight on tgay thread at 3pm, moment y8 go home!!!!

Freckle me too, Catholic, went to all girls catholic school. For my first marriage I got married in a Church of England church, 1st husband not one bit religious. I know its stupid crazy but I sometimes stupidly think I'm being punished too lol!! Second marriage, got married at the venue, civil ceremony. Stuck two fingers up at the Catholic church to be honest having been treated badly when talking to the church about my situation, made me so cross!! xx

Emerald opk sticks pick up the LH surge. Occasionally you can have a surge but not ovulate. Some cycles you might have a second surge and ovulate then. Other cycles are 'annovulatory' (could be wrong on the correct term there) and you don't ovulate. It's perfectly normal to have a random cycle when you don't ovulate, but it doesn't happen often. Temping will confirm ovulation whilst opks predict it. Hope that makes sense!

Just popping in for a read at lunch and to check for news from Flen, no time to post properly!

emerald It could be possible that you get positive OPKs without ovulating - as far as I know, OPKs measure the amount of luteinising hormone (LH), whereas the temperature shift is caused by the rise in progesterone... I guess that looking at progesterone is more reliable, since this is also what they measure when taking your bloods to check if you are ovulating. Have you considered temping? Alternatively, ask your GP to test your bloods for progesterone, it's a standard and easy test that GPs usually are happy to do.

flen Good luck!

I'm also a non-pincher when injecting heparin, as I found that I get even worse bruises when I do that. Tbh, these days, I just ram the needle in wherever I can, as I now have a lovely line of bruises of all sizes and colours across my lower abdomen

I saw a blimmin' heartbeat! Consultant said it all looks good and he can't see any obvious reason for the bleeding, next scan in a week. Thank you everyone for all your handholding and support, I really thought that was it.

Yay flen! Fab news! How many weeks are you now?

freckle, onestep, I know it probably means nothing from a non catholic, but i really strongly believe that neither of you are being punished. This is an absolutely shit situation to be in, and it might not be explainable by science yet, but it will be one day. Nothing you have or haven't done has caused this. So please don't feel to blame. The choices that you made were the right ones. You might not have been with your lovely DPs if it hadn't been for the things that happened.

Whoop whoop Flen!

I'm very pleased with myself as I've finally booked my accupuncture sessions to start in a few weeks time! Not likely then cost though

Woohoo FLEN!!!! so happy for you. What a bloody relief. And breathe.

Good on you for booking the acu girlie. Did you look into community sessions? Mine cost a quarter of the full priced hourly rate and you get a half hour.

Yey flen, that's great news!! Now go and treat yourself to lots of cake and chocolate! xxx

Brilliant news Flen well done!!

Thank god Flen, wonderful news xxx

Fabulous news flen! So pleased for you xxx

flen

Oh flen I'm over the moon for you! Had my actual real life fingers crossed for you at 2.00!

Yeah flen. Fab news. Pesky bleeding.

I knew there would be a few closet catholics on here. I also suspected that there was a hidden epidemic of guilt and blame. Blaming yourself on some level is easier than having no answers and no one to blame.
Time to get out the Richard Dawkins ladies and step away from the rosary beads.

thorne I missed that you also had a positive scan. Hurrah!

All those suffering Catholic angst, I really, really don't think you are being punished. I've done my share of raging at God through 4 miscarriages and Faith being diagnosed, but actually I think the truth is there is no justice in this life. None of us, whatever we've done, deserve to lose our babies.

barking glad that they think that they can help your dad more although frustrated for him that it means another week in hospital. Fingers crossed that next week he can get home and back to some semblance of normality.
Feel your pain on picking up the dog walking while DH is away!

freckle I think in your words of anger, you summed up what we have all thought on so many occasions. Hope you are ok

thorn and march hope the spotting is staying away? march, I can't remember, do you have a scan booked?

girlie glad you have acupuncture sorted.

flen phew, phew, phew!

Thank you everyone! I think I am in shock. cloud my dates say 6.1, but I was measuring 6.4 today.