Hi, I thought I would tell youn all about my history of miscarriages over the last three years. First of all I think it´s worth saying that I have a very healthy 11 year old girl, the pregnancy was uncomplicated and she was born 3 weeks early. I have since married a new partner and 3 years ago we decided to try for a family. Everything seemed fine up until 13 weeks and at 19 weeks I miscarried, totally unexpextedly. It was very traumatic, we had various tests done and they said no cause was found. So we tried again! The second miscarriage was a empty egg at 8 weeks. Just bad luck they said! So we tried again! This time I miscarried at 6 weeks. By this time we decide to undego genetic testing and thought it must all be down to that or stress, so we decided to wait a year or so. The result came back negative, just bad luck they said.
I had comlpained a few times in the pastabout excessive bleeding during periods and bleeding during sex or doing exercise, but nobody took any interest. I had heard about a procedure where they could check out the state of the utereus through use of a camera. I asked for this procedure, but they did a quick scan and said all was fine and i didn´t need one.
2 years passed and we decided it was the time to try again. This time it seemed like I couldn´t get pregnant. A few times i felt pregnant and my period was late, but then my period came and so i put it down to paranoia. The next time i felt pregnant i did the test the day my period was late and it turned out that i was pregnant, but my period came the next day. So this time i had had a micro- miscarriage. I expected that i had had 2 more over the last 6 months that we had been trying.
So, i decided to take it all into my own hands and started reading medical journals on recurrent miscarriage and heavy periods.
Through my extensive research i diagnosed myself as having fibroids or polyps, something that no-one had ever even mentioned to me in the past.
I checked myself into a private clinic and told them I wanted an ultrasound and hyroscopy of the uterus.
I saw a private gyno. and told him my history and he imediately told me this type of bleeding between periods was not normal for my age (34). They check me out inside and out and discoverd a large uterine polyp 2cm, the size of my uterus. I had it removed there and then.
I month later my period returned and amazingly it only lasted for 5 days now, not 9 and i hardly bled compared to the litres i had been bleeding for years, ever since i gave birth to my first daughter.
This gyno, who had read my history and looked at my case, told me the polyp probably had everything to do with the miscarriages. However, another one, who didn´t have a minute and couldn´t read English, said it had nothing at all to do with it, its all to do with good or bad eggs???
By the way i live in the north of Spain.