Uterine Scarring after 3rd MC

[Katewilliam91]

Hoping there may be someone else who’s had a similar experience…

I recently had my third miscarriage (not consecutive- I had a MMC, spontaneous MC, then my daughter, then this recent one was another MMC). I had medical management with misoprostol and an MVA at the start of March for the most recent MMC.

We’ve been referred to the recurrent miscarriage clinic now and they’ve started investigations. Had a 3D ultrasound and the consultant found a small area of uterine scarring. It was not calcified & apparently newer scarring, most likely a result of the recent miscarriage. She wants to rescan me in 2 months. And has put me on the waiting list for a hysteroscopy. Has anyone else had experience of this ?

I’ve had one period since the most recent miscarriage which only lasted a day with one day spotting so I did wonder if something was wrong. Sorry to anyone else reading this who’s also had a loss/losses. It’s such a tough experience to go through.

Hi

I’m sorry to hear about your losses and the scarring. I thought I’d reply as there don’t seem to be many experiences of this when I was searching.

I had scarring which was discovered during surgery for retained tissue, done under hysteroscopy. I don’t know which procedure caused the scarring, whether it was the first surgery for the same MMC, or previous procedures.

I had:
MVA for MMC
Healthy pregnancy (but retained placenta, manually removed)
2 x surgery for another MMC when the scarring was found

After my first MVA my periods did go really light, just a couple of days of spotting, and I wondered if I had scarring then, but I did then have a healthy pregnancy so I don’t know.

I was “lucky” in that the doctor tried to remove my scarring during the same surgery for retained tissue, and I’m now currently 15w pregnant.

There are a couple of Facebook groups which I have found helpful:
Asherman’s Syndrome Awareness and Support
Asherman’s Syndrome Support UK & Ireland

My understanding from these groups is that it’s quite difficult to confirm scarring from ultrasound, and many people struggle to get diagnosed, so I think it’s good that you’ve already been referred for a hysteroscopy.

Wishing you all the best.

Thanks for replying @Summersun91 and sharing your experience.
Congratulations on the pregnancy! Wishing you well too. This gives me hope in what has been a pretty depressing few days since my scan. I’m glad the scar removal & surgery worked for you. I’ll check out the facebook groups for Asherman’s. X