Hi everyone!

Just popping in to say 'hi' & to give a quick update. I went to the Dr on Monday after having the chemical pregnancy or m/c the week before. I went to a locum Dr as my usual GP is on holidays - worst mistake of my life as the locum was an absolute cow. She pretty much told me I was a fool for testing early, and I hadn't actually 'miscarried'. I asked her whether I needed to be checked out by an OB/GYN because I was still feeling sick, but she didn't think this was necessary. She told me I was "obviously quite particular" and that I shouldn't be worried that anything was wrong with me because statistically miscarriage is quite normal. She also indicated to me that I shouldn't be so uptight about these losses because both pregnancies had been quite early and were only "a bunch of cells" that I had lost. Obviously I don't have the same view on 'life' as she does.

I've since talked to a friend who is an OB/GYN who validated that I had had a second miscarriage or a chemical pregnancy - her words were if you lose a pregnancy after a positive HPT, then you have had a miscarriage. I guess this made me feel a little reasurred (i.e. not an absolute fruit loop as I was feeling), as I know that the lines I was getting on the HPTs were not false positives (given other symptoms as well). But she did say to me that statistically I was 'normal' - it's just I've had 'bad luck' twice in a row now. She did indicate that health professionals generally don't want to start investigating the cause of recurrent miscarriage until after 3 losses, but she encouraged me to go back to my normal GP once GP has returned from hols for further advice given I've got a good relationship with my GP. So I'm feeling ok about everything at the moment - I'm not feeling absolutely hopeless & I've stopped looking for something being wrong with me for the short term at least! I also started acupuncture on Thursday & must say that I'm feeling a lot more activity down there this month...what feels like ov pains & certainly a lot more CM - I felt the activity start about 30 mins after the acupuncture, which I think is a good sign!

Despite my experience last month with testing early, I'm not going to stop testing early. If it happens again (i.e. another chemical pg), in my opinion I will have had my 3rd m/c and then I'm going to seek further tests. So I won't stop testing early even though I know the potential heartache I'm exposing myself to.

Well enough from me. I apologise I haven't had a chance to do a lot of personals in the last week as I said I would - quite a manic week in all - but hope to catch up with everyone soon.