Contact GP after miscarriages?

[rainbow198501]

Hi, has anyone based in UK requested any help from GP after two miscarriages? Like progesterone or blood test? I’m planning to ttc this month but so scared of loosing this pregnancy too as I’m 40 years old already

Not the GP (they would only write a referral anyway), but the hospital were really good and admitted me to their recurrent miscarriage programme.

@Prelim thank you 💚 was that after two or more miscarriages?

Gp probably won’t do any of that. Might refer you to the reoccurring miscarriage clinic but I waited for around 14 months for an appointment. Not sure if there are still lengthy waiting lists.

They also run a battery of tests before prescribing any medications, they don’t just give them to you. You wait of course for results and for interpretation of those results which they will discuss with you.

Sadly, there has been very little funding in this area. (I was told when I had my appointments eventually).

@Pottersciderbar82thank you :)

Yes, that was after two miscarriages. I was under the hospital care for both. It’s usually for after three miscarriages, but I pushed for it as was 36 at the time. There was a long waiting list, but they ran lots of tests and were very thorough. They also were very active when I got pregnant under their care (scans from 6wks every 2wks), and they tested the product from the miscarriages.

ask for a referral to the Tommys miscarriage clinic, they are based out of London and Birmingham and were so helpful and tested my blood for around 25 things.
my doctor had never heard about it so I had to be proactive and explain what it is to them. Wishing you luck x

I did, it is also helpful to consider how long you've been trying. I'm 40 too and locally the NHS Trust doesn't pay for IVF, but they do in some Trusts to 42. I've gone through IVF privately and it turns out there were quite a lot of chromosome problems with embryos. This was despite me and partner taking high quality supplements and not having an unhealthy lifestyle. My NHS consultant for IVF ordered all the bloodtests through the GP that I needed, which could then be used by the private clinic. All the best.

I’m so sorry for your losses. I had four miscarriages. 3 in a row. I went to the gp and they agreed for me to take a low dose aspirin. My baby stuck and is now 4 years old. I was recently diagnosed with pcos. Good luck x

@startingivfthank you

@Tempoflightsthank you

@griefandsupportthank you when did you start taking baby aspirin? Ideas thinking to start 3dpo

It was around the time we started trying again. I continued it until my 12 weeks scan. They did book me in at the epu for a 6 week scan x

@griefandsupportthank you x

My GP was completely useless after my miscarriages.
We went after 3 and was referred to the recurrent miscarriage clinic.
After 4 miscarriages we found out the wait for the clinic was 12 months. The GP refused to do any tests or help us at all because we now had a referral.
We saw a private consultatant who ran a few tests and wrote us a prescription for progesterone.

Finally fell pregnant again and started on the progesterone immediately. We were then referred to the epau.
Because we had the referral going through we were then treated under the recurrent miscarriage clinic who were amazing. They took over the prescription for progesterone and I was scanned every 2 weeks.

It's taken 2 and half years and jumping through a million hoops but I'm nearly 16 weeks and everything is looking good.
I think alot depends on your GP and what trust you are under.
It's definitely worth asking but it can be a long a difficult battle.

Referred by GP

Generally quite a wait like PP have said, and there’s not always a diagnosis or cause found at the end of it.

After lots of testing and scans I was in the “unexplained” camp, which is apparently the case about 50% of the time. It’s still not a well understood or funded area, sadly.

I am now pregnant, though, after a lot of losses and I have my own theories on that.

Best of luck, OP x

Two miscarriages here and had investigations via the NHS! They were steadfast that it had to be at least 3 losses to investigate, but the NICE guidelines have changed to say it should be investigated after 2, and I took this info to my GP who then agreed a referral. The wait time was long but it was worth getting all of the tests because the private cost was insane.

Little note that I would avoid taking aspirin/adding any medication based on other people's experiences. I was tempted to do this but my results actually found that it would have caused miscarriage for me to do this in future, not helped!

The epu referred me to the reoccurring miscarriage team after 2 losses as I was over 35.
The epu dealt with all of my miscarriage management and aftercare so I never saw the GP for my miscarriages.
The reoccurring miscarriage have a minimum wait of 12 weeks as some of the bloods tests need a 12 week wait after a loss. My appointment came through as about 16 weeks post miscarriage but I was already 13 weeks pregnant! My epu gave me a scan at 8 and a half weeks and put me on progesterone at the same time. I could have been seen earlier but I only found out I was pregnant the week before! He's now 10 weeks old!

I had a still birth and 2 MMC then the doctor got involved. They referred me to the recurrent miscarriage clinic but also ran a load of tests before my referral came through. Although they didn't do anything with the test results, I looked up with the results meant (nothing was out of the normal). They advised progesterone or aspirin had to be prescribed by the miscarriage team but could request any blood tests needed.

I got referred in the October (I think) and got seen in May of the following year by the miscarriage team. I opted for Tommy's Clinic in Coventry over a local miscarriage team as my local team wait was 50 weeks. That was right after Covid though in 2021 so everything was stupidly long waits.

I went to my GP after all 3 of my early losses and he was honestly fantastic with me! He referred me to the EPU after my 1st when I fell pregnant again, and again with my 3rd. On my 3rd i told him I really wanted progesterone, he referred me straight to the EPU requesting that they do my bloods to scan and then prescribe. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it far enough for them to confirm the pregnancy was in the right place to prescribe.

Every time I asked for a blood HCG he said yes, I asked for recurrent miscarriage bloods via my GP, whilst I was on the wait list for the clinic! He done it all.

I think it can depend on your GP and maybe I am very lucky! But I would say If your GP refuses, try elsewhere or really push, maybe mentioned some nice guidelines?

the best of luck to you!!