Hi everyone,
Just to give you a brief background on my history, I’ve had 6 recurrent miscarriages, no living children. My last miscarriage was of fraternal twins so have lost 7 babies in total.
I’ve lost 4 at around 5 weeks gestation (twins were measuring within a day of eachother)
2 have been lost just over 6 weeks with heartbeat seen in one with an early scan.
And I had one very early loss classed as a chemical. All but 2 of my losses have been missed miscarriages where I’ve had no bleeding and just found out at scans I’ve lost them weeks before. I was on progesterone for our fourth and fifth loss (chemical) and progesterone and 75mg asprin for our last loss of twins.
I have been through my local NHS miscarriage clinic which I’m afraid weren’t all that helpful. Our fourth loss was sent for genetic testing which transpired was never done. Which is really frustrating as it would have been a big piece of the puzzle to know if that one was genetically normal. My blood panels have all been normal, apart from slightly raised clotting but I was 5 weeks pregnant at the time the test was carried out. They have referred me for IVF a which I know I am so lucky to have under the NHS, however I’m worried that isn’t our answer as we l conceive. They said they don’t do any genetic testing of the embryos so not sure how it will help.
I have reached out to a private clinic who have prescribed me a 2 week course of doxycycline starting from CD 1. And then 10mg prednisalone once daily and 400mg twice daily of progesterone to start both at 3dpo. If I have a positive test I then start fragmin injections once daily.
I’m so hopeful in this protocol but also terrified, so looking for success stories from anyone who’s been through similar and had success on this type of protocol?
I’m also more of the mind that is it more of a immune issue with me rather than genetic (appreciate the chemical was likely a random genetic issue) as the losses occur all at a similar time. The twins stopped developing within a day of eachother which seems too much of a coincidence for two separate babies to stop almost at the same time?
Thanks so much for reading x