How long until pregnant after miscarriage with retained products?

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Just as it says really, I’m wondering how long it took for others to conceive again after a miscarriage with the complication of retained products? I had an MVA one month ago and unfortunately still have vascular retained products 2.5cm but I’m on provera to try and clear and if this is not successful I will be having a hysteroscopy to remove. Just wondering how long other peoples fertility returned and conceived after rpoc passed or were removed? Thanks x

First time - miscarriage took 10 weeks to be complete as I had retained products (had an MVA, numerous rounds of tablets and I was bleeding heavily throughout). My period came back 4 weeks later and it took 5 months to conceive (I was under a lot of stress at work and was having some tests done though - I ended up anemic and on iron tablets so that may have been why). Second time I had an MVA, period came back after 4 weeks and we conceived the second month we tried (he’s now 13 weeks old).

It’s so awful going through it, especially when it’s not straightforward but once it was sorted, my body got back to normal very quickly. I hope that helps.

@Hellothere89 thanks so much for your reply and sorry to hear you had such a bad time with it also, it really is the worst thing as it is let alone when it drags on and things aren’t going as they should. We’re tour retained products vascular do you know? Did you need a procedure to remove or did the tablets work?
Also so happy to hear that things worked out for you in the end and you have your lovely baby 🥰

It's hard to say as it depends on how quickly your body can shift the RPOC and to some degree how the miscarriage happened. I had RPOC for about 5 months after an MMC (blighted ovum/empty sac found at 5 weeks) and I was told to keep a close eye out for any symptoms of uterine infection.

I didn't have surgical intervention as I wanted to see if my body would clear it all out on it's own. It did, but the random haemorrhaging was no fun, and seeing stories of people having had surgical intervention and being left with tissue remaining, it just seemed better to wait and deal with the bleeding. I had scans every few weeks to track progress, from which I could see highly-vascular tissue (bits of the placenta with lots of blood vessels that were slowly degrading) getting smaller and smaller.

After that was all over, my period came back and it was about a year before I conceived again, which sadly ended in another MMC, but that one resolved very quickly as there was no empty sac, but sadly the baby failed to develop beyond 6 weeks. Once I'd come off the progesterone, my body flushed everything out. A year later, I got pregnant again and I'm 28+4 today.

TL;DR :

The time it takes to resolve RPOC depends on how the miscarriage happened and how your body deals with RPOC.

Final comments:

The three worst aspects of an MMC for me personally are the pain, the bleeding and the emotional side of it all. Every time your body gets rid of a bit more tissue, you're reminded once again that you lost a baby (another baby in my case) and it's heartbreaking.

@YorkshireGoldDrinkerthanks for you reply and sorry that you’ve been through hard times with this too. It’s not something I would wish on anyway, it’s been very emotionally hard and I just want it all over so I can draw a line and move forward fully.
1 had MMC baby stopped at 7 weeks and I had an MVA four weeks ago when I was 9 weeks. Positive preg test 3 weeks later so called the hospital and they scanned and found 2.5cm of highly vascular retained product. Just finished course of 10 days 20mg progesterone and hopefully this does the trick, I just worry it won’t as the products are so highly vascular! If it doesn’t I will have to have another procedure as I just can’t mentally cope with months of waiting.. but that’s just me personally. I am however high risk of uterine perforation for various reasons, so it’s all a little complicated unfortunately!

It’s honestly awful. The constant bleeding was exhausting mentally and physically - it was such a tough time, so I feel for you. Yes mine were vascular and the same size as yours. I think I had tablets x 2, procedure then more tablets but I can’t remember exactly. I was in hospital weekly and having lots of scans as I was passing massive clots for weeks. Despite that everything was fine and I had a scan after it was complete to check (they looked at the thickness of the lining of my womb too). I know other people that have been through the same and conceived after with no problems. I was told to wait two cycles though before we ttc again.

Hey:) i was wondering if you could update on your situation? has it resolved naturally?

@lili21222hey, so I ended up having retained for about 6-8 weeks and it was removed beginning of Jan. I had some scaring which was removed beginning of March and a tubal flush at the same time and I found out recently I’m pregnant again and I’m now 6 weeks along 🥰 so from removal of retained to conceiving again it was about a month and a half! Sorry if you’re going through something like this too, it was a bad time xxx

thank you! was it removed via hysteroscopy or d&c?

@lili21222i had hysteroscopy and needed 2 in the end to fully remove it all. They didn’t offer D&C only hysteroscopy x

oh wow,
thank you for answering and much luck with the current <3<3