Progesterone pessaries & spotting

[Stardust127]

Hi

I have recently found out I am pregnant following two early miscarriages at the start of the year.

I’ve been prescribed progesterone pessaries up until 16 weeks by the recurrent miscarriage clinic who I was under the care of. I started taking them last night, so I have now done 3 in total.

I’ve had the usual , normal early pregnancy cramping on and off, but earlier I had some very light pink spotting only when I wiped. I checked my cervix and it was quite low. After a shower it was higher up. It’s quite soft. Sorry this is tmi. I am so so worried.

has anyone experienced anything similar?

tia x

I’ve had spotting on progesterone. I had a heavier than spotting bleed at almost 9 weeks and the scan 2 days later showed a happy lil bean and no cause for the bleeding. I’ve been spotting constantly since which I’m hoping isn’t bad news but we will see in 2 weeks!
Fingers crossed for you x

Edited to add the midwife wasn’t concerned when I told her.

Insertion could be causing some irritation to the cervix. You could try inserting rectally or carry on vaginally and monitor the spotting. Might not be related to the pessaries.

I had very light spotting when I started taking the progesterone pessaries just as you describe but, switched to using them rectally and it stopped, went on to have healthy pregnancy.

Congratulations!

I had spotting on-and-off for the first 9/10 weeks of my pregnancy and I was taking progesterone pessaries for the first 12 weeks. I put mine up the 'back passage', just because I know the front way can cause spotting. Everything was fine, I'm almost 18 weeks now. I'd say check in with your EPU if you're really worried.

I also used to check my cervix and it changes position so often. I'd recommend stopping doing that, your cervix isn't an indication of a healthy pregnancy. It just irritates the cervix and causes anxiety, it may even be causing the spotting. I've had a midwife give me a bit of a telling off for checking it 😬

This all being said, I can understand your worry. I've had losses too ❤

I’ve been on the progesterone for a while including my unsuccessful cycles. As what pp’s said, try rectally if possible. I’ve always done mine rectally cause i thought it was less messy that way but when i had tummy upset i tried vaginal route. After two days i had spotting so went back to rectal immediately and didn’t spot again. Good luck OP.

Agree with pp, spotting causes a lot of anxiety, take rectally to rule cervix irritation out x

Thank you all for the replies and sorry for not responding until now, we were away and it was a lovely but very non stop week!

I had spotting one more time after this post but it stopped and nothing since so I do think it was maybe my cervix being irritated by the pessaries and now perhaps it’s gotten used to them