Help- miscarriages and subseptate uterus

[Blueberry1025]

Hello

I’ve had 2 miscarriages (one at 4.5 weeks and was considered a chemical pregnancy, one at almost 6 weeks). I’ve had an ultrasound and been told that I have a subseptate uterus, it’s only 1.3cm.

Given that it’s so small, the specialist can’t confirm whether it’s the cause of my miscarriages particularly given that my miscarriages happened so early on. I’m just so unsure as to whether I have the surgery or try one more time?

Has anyone been in the same situation and decided not to have the surgery and had any success stories? Help!

Hi, so I have a full septate uterus and I'm on this board because I've just had a miscarriage, but I have also carried my daughter to 32weeks so I am hopefully a reassuring story for you.

The surgery wasn't right for me for two reasons - firstly, my septum itself is super thick and has great blood flow, so any embryo should be fine if it implants there, and secondly, because it's so thick, the scarring that resulted could potentially cause miscarriages and issues with placenta attaching too deeply. So we haven't had the surgery.

I really recommend talking your choices through with a gynae consultant, I had a hysteroscopy and laparoscopy under GA for them to be really sure what their plan was.

Best of luck.

Thanks so much for sharing your positive story and also sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I didn’t realise that you could get blood flow on the septum?? I thought you couldn’t. That’s really good to hear though.

I think I will try once more and failing that, will chat to the surgeon

@Blueberry1025 the hysteroscopy and laparoscopy were really helpful in understanding what exactly was going on in there. We paid privately for one (about 3k) and the other was NHS with a 3month wait list. Fingers crossed for you trying again but if it doesn't work, I'd definitely speak to a surgeon to understand more about your specifics x

Thank you so much for your help, appreciate it! Best of luck to you too x

Hi all - another subseptate uterus here! I am currently 5w+3 with my first pregnancy (I need to change the username....). I feel half hopeful that maybe it will be ok, but also feel realistic in that my chances of mc are high. Could you possibly share how far on you got with your pregnancies that ended in mc? I am trying to pinpoint where I might be 'out of the woods' a bit. I am 4 weeks away from my appointment with obstetrician. Also did the NHS make you have three mc before they would operate? I am wondering if it is proven to be due to my subseptate uterus whether they might operate sooner. Seems like a long road ahead if you have to wait for 3!

Hey there! My two miscarriages were at 5 weeks and 6 weeks. I have private health so they were happy to perform the procedure straight away, but they couldn’t confirm that my subseptate uterus was causing the early miscarriages. They could only assume that implantation must have occurred on the septum which then results in lack of blood flow and then a miscarriage. However, they also said after having the surgery I may have some scarring which would ultimately end up doing the same thing if implantation occurs on the scarring. I decided to try once more and now I’m 15 weeks pregnant!
They did say if it happens a third time then I’ll have to have the procedure. My septum is only 1.3cm though, which is quite small.
My fingers are crossed for you, I hope it all works out!