Hey girls , did you ever find a reason for your recurrent miscarriages !?!

[Sadgirl28]

I have had 5 early recurrent miscarriages and no child yet , and soon will be referred to recurrent miscarriage clinic ? But just wondering if you ever had miscarriages and found out the cause or if you didn’t find out , did you try any medication and was successful ? I heard a lot of stories people taking progesterone and aspirin and it’s worked ... thank you

Hi! I’ve had 2 consecutive ones and have tried progesterone pessaries as per OB’s orders- that didn’t work and I miscarried at 12 weeks. Will be trying aspirin next time around. Good luck!

Hi @Sadgirl28, I've also had five early losses (we're trying for our first too), the latest a few weeks ago. I saw a specialist who found that I have an MTHFR mutation, positive ANAs and a blood clotting disorder - these were all treated for my most recent round of IVF but sadly I still had a chemical pregnancy. I will be having a hysteroscopy as soon as I can (could be a while because of Covid). Wishing you lots of luck x

@WishingWaiting hey I’m so sorry about your losses :( we are in the same boat aren’t we .. iv had all the blood tests done for blood clotting disorders and everything came back normal . I’m also hoping for hysteroscopy , maybe my uterus has something to do with it , maybe polyps or something else there ... but I don’t understand , if there was a problem with the uterus then how does the baby implant and go on for few weeks growing and then misscarry,

I had 5 MCs after my first child. The reason was autoimmune disease, and I had treatment with prednisolone heparin and progesterone. It worked for 2nd and 3rd babies with a further MC in between.

I'm sorry for your losses, I've had 4 and was seen by an nhs / Tommy's clinic but they found no reasons for my losses, so just said carry on trying. I used cyclogest in my most recent one and still miscarried, so I went private and was diagnosed with aggressive nk cells so following an immune protocol to try to conceive now. Haven't had success yet.
I hope you do find some answers xx

Hi OP i had three miscarriages, fourth time I got pregnant the bleeding started again but this time my GP referred me to to an obstetrician straight away and he put me on progesterone and aspirin. I'm now 36 weeks!

hi @Sadgirl28 just found this thread as trying to find some comfort in my first pregnancy which I then lost last week at 6 weeks. I hope you have had success over the last year. I am 36 years old so really concerned about my age and chances of success on a road I naively didn't realise existed until last week. Any experience or support much appreciated. xx

Autoimmune for me too
High NK cells
7 losses, followed by twins when treated for the autoimmune thing.

@GreenLeavesRustling so sorry you had to go through so many losses to get your twins. If you dont mind what age were you when you had your twins? My head is in such a bad place with my age and worrying i've left it too late : ( xx

3 early losses. All the blood tests, which all came back normal and they just said 'It's one of those things, keep trying'.

4th pg started with bleeding and they told me it had been a failed twin pg, but very early. The other twin is 21. And her sister (no problems in between pg 1 and 2) has just turned 18.

Just unlucky but no medication needed.

My friend had multiple miscarriages and had cervical stich for the baby she did carry full term.
I'm not aware of all ins and out but apparently she had 'soft' cervix or smthg

I had nine miscarriages and whilst going through them got tested for all the usual things which failed to identify the cause. I got lucky and DC1 was born between miscarriages 5 and 6. Eventually though I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition and conceived DC2 on my first pregnancy when this was tested with prednisone. I’m not sure if things have changed but when they feed back your results I’d ask if they included testing for antoimmune problems, especially if they tell you “sorry, no underlying cause… your age….bad luck….keep trying”.

Good luck. It’s a very hard journey and I remember the time going through miscarriage 5 still childless as being absolutely soul destroying. I very much hope you’re successful in pregnancy 6 too.

Just seen that this is an old thread do I’m now very much hoping you’ve been successful.

@LAURAPAX I was 35 when I had the twins, and subsequently at 39 got unexpectedly pregnant with DS3. Wishing you all the luck xx

I’m so sorry for your losses. If you haven’t already, please go and ask your gp to run some basic blood tests - I had three miscarriages which it turned out were caused by underactive thyroid that hadn’t been diagnosed / treated. Once that was sorted I had a straightforward pregnancy with my now 4 yr old.

Friend had several miscarriages; had blood test and they found she was low in magnesium. Nothing wrong with her diet but she was a ‘poor absorber’. This apparently can cause miscarriage. So the doc decided oral supplements would not help and gave her intravenous magnesium once a week. It did the trick and she went on to have children successfully.

Yes, my immune system rejected by babies because I'd had one successful pregnancy and I was still with the same partner. This was in the 1980's.

Not sure I believed them, I never got my second child.

Hey girls ! Just an update on what’s been going on since I posted ! I have had another loss at 6 weeks doing IVF , using progesterone and aspirin and blood thinners . But I had a blood clot from taking too high dose blood thinners by accident so this could of been the cause of my loss , I’ll never know ! But this time I’m having my next ivf trasfer and adding in predionsole , hoping that it might be immune related that my immune systems kills the pregnancy so by taking the steroid , it’s should help . So here is to hoping that predionsole , progesterone and blood thinners bring me luck this month 🥰❤️ Also still have found no cause for my losses previously , all testing came back normal . The only thing I am waiting on is hysteroscopy where they look into your womb with a camera for polyps , ect but this will happen if next pregnancy don’t work out with predionsole !

How were you treated?

Immune for me too - NK cells but amazing how many doctors are not on board with the testing.

I strongly recommend that any one who has recurring losses without explanation goes to see Dr Shehata at the CRP Clinic in Epsom. He does extensive testing (I had 17 vials of blood taken) and he was the first one to suggest a cause for the miscarriages in our 5 years of trying. We had a successful pregnancy first time on his protocol and I'll be eternally grateful.

There is also a 'pred thread' on here with women that are on similar plans.

Good luck and don't give up! X