did those of you who have had miscarriages have many "pregnancy symptoms"

[herbgarden]

Did you know you were pregnant/feel you were pregnant and then it just stopped or did you never really feel anything. I am 5 weeks now and on my second pg and can't really remember last time my symptoms (maybe I didn't have many which is why) but so many of my friends on their 2nd say they feel "exhausted" - "sick" "dreadful" and I'm not sure I feel any different other than some sore boobs. I've booked an 8 week scan privately just so that I don't have to go through all that m/w stuff if all is not ok...but at the moment, I am feeling very very unsure....I'm sorry if I've brought this up in the wrong place but something feels wrong.....or maybe I need to stop worrying til and just whatever will be will be.

I don't want to make you more worried so first off everyone seems to feel different during pregnancy. However to be honest my ist pg I didn't really have many pg symptoms and my DD was 9 on Friday. 2nd pg (this time last year) had like a dull period ache and mc naturally at 7wks. 3rd pg in January 08 had rip roaring pg symptoms - sore boobs, tiredness, nausea, heartburn and bloated - had a mmc at 11+wks. 4th pg this week slight pg symptoms but bleeding at 5+wks and just been confirmed mc.

To be honest I think the only sure fire way of knowing what's going on is a scan and try and take each day as it comes. You could be absolutely fine however as you say at this stage nature does her thing and whatever will be will be. I really hope you get good news.

I agree with what scotlass says (sorry to hear scotlass that you are having another MC). I've just suffered a MC at 11 weeks and I felt sick and tired the whole time until three days after the bleeding had started and after I'd had the scan confirming what was happening. The baby had stopped growing at 5 weeks so I had 6 weeks of feeling sick without knowing the pregnancy wasn't viable anymore. I've been told that even if the baby is not growing anymore your body often still believes you are pregnant and continue to churn out the hormones.

With my first pregnancy, which resulted in my DS1 I didn't have a days sickness at all and felt quite tired but not overly so. With my second pregnancy and third pregnancy (the second one was my first MC and the third one was DS2) I felt the same: quite sick and very tired. This last one (my second MC) I felt the most sick. There seems to be no pattern.

I hope you are ok herbgarden, worrying is very natural and normal. Fingers crossed everything is fine.

Thanks for that - I just need to sit it out - funny how last time I didn't feel quite so nervous as this time. My sil has had 3 m/c and a close friend had a m/c with her second so a bit close to home. Maybe that's why I am more worried about it.....

Hiya, ive never suffered a misscariage so can't commemt there, but I am 12 weeks pregnant and I know that at 5 weeks I didn't have any symptoms or feel tired either, i too was quite worried about feeling so ,normal' but when I got to about 7 weeks it hit really hard and I haven't stopped sleeping/being sick since.

xx

With my first pregnancy I had no symptoms early on at all. In fact felt great.

With my second pregnancy I felt dreadful - was physically sick, really sore boobs etc, the works.

My first pregnancy lasted 37 weeks and resulted in dd, my second lasted 7 weeks.

Normal to worry but try not to !

My first 2 miscarriages were with pregnancies that had beem completly symptomless, they both happened at 8 weeks.

My 3rd miscarriage was in Feb and i was a walking symptom untill 9 weeks when they all stopped, it was discovered at 13 weeks that i had had a MMC.

Thank you all - the conclusion really is that you really can't tell can you - it's something we have no control over and have to just sit out and wait.......
Sorry for those of you who have had m/c - it is amazing how many people it happens to but I'm sure the sheer number doesn't make it any easier does it....

hi i hope ur scan is positive. id just like to add that on my son born 15mths ago i had lots of morning sickness and preg symptoms..on 2nd preg which was miscarriage at 6wks i just felt tired and sum period crampy feelings...ppl often say 2nd preg isnt as bad so it seemed normal to me that ihad few symptoms...however everyone is different,hopefully ull be fine x

With my first mmc, I had a loss of symptoms, so booked a private scan about a week later, which confirmed everything. I then started to mc two days later.

With this mmc (confirmed today ) I have continued to experience symptoms, although I have to say that they are not quite as strong - perhaps only 80% - as they were with my ds.

With my fort pg which ended in a MC I han no symptoms at all. No sickness, no sore boobs etc. I lost it at 11 weeks.

With my two sucessful PGs I had horrid morning sickness, odd tastes in my mouth, sore boobs, very tired

I was very tired from about week 4. Kept crashing out on the couch. Then one day I felt fine, no tiredness at all. I miscarried 3 days later.

I personally know lots of women who had no morning sickness at all in their healthy pregnancies (damn them!) and I know it's as common as up to 50% of pregnancies where there's no sickness, or something like that, but I think for me the thing is I get sick. In my MC pregnancy I had no sickness at all, and I also wasn't craving more food. I was really pleased about this because at nearly 3 months I was energetic and skinny. But then...

In my other two pregnancies, I have had very bad sickness, but also somehow managed to eat more too. This pregnancy is quite early days and I worry when I'm not sick.

With my 1st pg, I was feeling sick all the time, was so tired, was peeing alot and generally felt pg.
One day I was at work and I was about 8 weeks along. The strangest feeling came over me and I called a friend and told her I didn't think I was pg anymore. She said to stop being silly and my hormones etc etc. but I couldn't stop crying. I left work and found myself sitting in a church crying. 2 weeks later, I was booked in to have a scan. When I got there they couldn't see anything so did an internal and said what they could see didn't have a heartbeat and from the size they think it stopped growing at 8 weeks.

herbgarden - having gone through 7 m/cs and had 2 DC's I can assure you that there is no ryhme nor reason to symptoms.

I have learnt to recognise my own specific PG symptoms very early on (different sense of smell and going off alcohol are the two definite signs for me), but my symptoms up to 12 weeks in the more general terms of exhaustion/sickness whatever varied from PG to PG. With my DC's I had a very rough 1st trim with one and sailed through the other with only my 2 definite signs in evidence. With my M/C's sometimes I had no symptoms and they were fine for whole trimestar (I know because I was having weekly scans with the last 2), sometimes I did have symptoms and they all stopped when I M/C'd.

I think the time to be concerned is perhaps when you do have symptoms and they all stop, rather than when you don't really have symptoms.

herbgarden I am feeling the same as you at the moment. I am also 5 weeks and have been experiencing crampy pains (which I do remember having with my dd and ds) but so many of my friends have had a mc recently that it feels like the norm at the moment I am hoping for a scan at 8 weeks to confirm everything is ok, it just seems like a long way away and a lot of worrying to get through

I have also convinced myself that I have toxoplasmosis - don't ask me why it's just banging around in my hormonal head at the moment!

I'm so sorry to read some of the sad times that you ladies have experienced Thank you for sharing.