Like others I need to vent and where else can I do it other than here, no-one else knows what to say, and when they do it's probaby the wrong thing.
So, I'm 38 years old, I had a gorgeous little girl in November 2009 at 36, fell pregnant within 3 months, no problems! April last year we decide to get a wriggle on and get her a sibling. Expecting yet again to fall quickly. Oh no.......was I mistaken! Well actually, not quite true, June I got a BFP, was pretty chuffed with myself, not bad for an old duck.......the day after I got my BFP I miscarried. OK, pretty bummed but we'll wait a month as per the doctors orders. August I get another BFP and again within days I miscarry. So off to the fertility specialist I go. All along I suspected a progesterone issue as my cycles were getting shorter and shorter from a normal 28 day down to 21/22 day cycle. I had to wait until early November to get an appointment but sure enough after a zillion blood tests it's discovered I have a luteal phase defect caused by pretty much no progesterone in the 2nd half of my cycle. To add to it all my egg count is extremely low, awesome! The FS goes off on holidays and tells me he can't see me again until the end of January 2012 but the nurses will track me. The first month was a disaster, I was put on the progesterone too late so yet again another month of failure. Onto cycle 2, Christmas Eve I have some spotting, call the clinic they told me to come in on Monday but I'll probably need more progesterone next time, have a blood test on Boxing Day, they call me to say guess what, you have HCG in your system....but, big but, it's very low, either it's too early or it's not looking good. They doubled my progesterone and within the week my numbers had risen really nicely. Over the next few scary weeks things were looking better and better, numbers rising nicely, a few drops in progesterone but it went back up again. Cue in 7 week scan, booked in for Monday, had just had bloods done a few days earlier to be told my numbers were awesome and I wouldn't need to come back for any more providing my scan was all clear. Easy I thought, I'm safe..........oh how wrong I was.
Turn up to scan, went on my own while hubby watched our 2 year old at home. Get in there all excited, lie down, the woman inserts the probe and immediately she says and all in one tone well there's a baby there and a heartbeat, but it's measuring a week behind in dates and the heart rate is very low. I suspect within the week it will peder off and die so I wouldn't go shouting it from the rooftops just yet. OMG what did you just say!!!!! And that was it, I was offered a tissue to "clean up" , the she asked if I'd like a picture of my baby and off you go to the front desk....I'll bulk bill you today - geez thanks.
I walked out in a daze, was that a joke, am I dreaming, nope it's true, sadly, very true.
Today it's Wednesday, I now have to wait until Friday to see the OB, she is going to run another scan but it's more to see if bub has died yet so we can schedule a D&C. I'm not sure how to process this, 3 losses in 10 months is really not funny and I'm kind of over it now. Everyone around me is falling pregnant left right and centre, I know there's lessons in everything but what this is meant to teach me other than bitterness I do not know.
Thanks for letting me vent, I don't expect any replies, I just needed to get my feelings off my chest because if I hear one more person tell me it's probably for the better if it wasn't right, or you can try again, I might just scream!
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How insensitive are some people! You poor thing to be treated that way. You must be so upset and stressed. I hope that although things look not the best right now that when you see your OB she has some reassuring and good news for you. Don't give up hope, take care - love and hugs to you.
Alison: for you, it is an awful thing to go through, I have been there twice & I know how hard it is, I will be thinking of you & hoping Friday brings you good news
Thanks Girls, I hate being so negative but I don't even feel pregnant anymore, my nausea has gone, sore bb's have gone, so I'm expecting nothing but bad news Friday, just wish it would hurry up so I can move on with my life. Aussiegirl how on earth do you handle having a miscarriage further down the track, this one has hit me pretty hard as it is!
Oh hunni,
I didn't realise how horrible that scan was for you. i'm so sorry that lady was so insensitive. Definitely not what you need in that moment!!
I'm still really hoping and praying for you that this little bub pulls through for you. I know how hard it is but i'm so sorry i still don't have anything to say that could possibly make you feel better.
I think the waiting is the hardest part. With my blighted ovum I had to wait three weeks (took me to 12weeks) after finding out to miscarry. It's so torturous. I hope Friday will be the last day for you if it is all over so that you can move on soon.
I'm so sorry again that this is such a rough time for you. xx
Thanks Kir xx.....she was pretty horrible - I told the OB so she is going to put in a complaint as she said that's no way to talk to someone in that situation. They obviously become complacent, it was probably the 10th time she'd done it that day and figures it's no big deal, who knows. How you coped with waiting 3 weeks I do not know, it's creeping me out now! I will be having a D&C this time because this is my 3rd m/c technically so they will probably run tests to see if it's a chromosomal thing, even though my last 2 were likely chemical pregnancies due to the low progesterone. I think it's more an age thing. Great to think not only do I have to now worry about it being chromosomal. I'd love to hang onto the hope that bub is still kicking on, but the odds are against me and call it intuition but I don't feel pregnant anymore, nausea has gone - it was on and off before but it's gone altogether and I swear my stomach feels/looks less bloated. Anyway, I'll keep you posted but I hope your scan next week is a goodie, time for some good news!
I'm glad your ob is putting in a complaint. Whether it was her 1st or 10th for the day....it is a job that you need to understand that each person needs to be treated as the only one. Like anything in medicine really.
I think the 3weeks was what i needed in the end to come to terms with it so in hindsight im ok with it. Was hard waiting though - i did have a d & c booked for the following monday and it started on that weekend. So i was at the end of my rope for waiting. plus ppl were asking if i was preggers. that was the worst.
I think they can still send things away for testing prolly via gp or early pregnancy service...because i will probably do that if it happens again too...but i just can't do the d & c thing. i think you are brave for considering it! It really creeps me out lol.
Thanks. I'm hoping for some good news soon too...for me and you!
Alison - Sending many your way. My FS was a bit matter of fact as well but I think because I already knew and I told him I already knew that it wasn't so harsh for me to hear it out loud. I thiknk you are right when you say they become complacent. They must see so many things like this that they just get used to it. Doesn't make it ny easier for you the patient who this is all happening to though.
I couldn't have waited to MC naturally. I'm one to get things over and done with as quickly as possible. I wouldn't have been able to stand waiting to MC. It would just be killing me and keeping me on edge waiting for it to start and not wanting to go any where for fear of it happeneing in public or work or something. So I chose D&C's after both my diagnosis's.
Alison with my m/c at just under 8 weeks I had lots of stretching pains still but I lost my preg signs and my DH said I had lost the tired look? Itms. I miscarried naturally after spotting old blood for 2 days I then got cramps and it started. I ended up in hospital and they did try to send away for testing but I got no results so be prepared for that as it's common I was told.
Oh Alison, I got tears in my eyes at the way the sonographer treated you! I, too, had a pretty horrid sonographer who told me I had miscarried... so I feel your pain. It is such an awful grief that hits you, they need to treat you with a bit more respect.
I really hope a miracle is coming your way. We could all do with one
I have never had a miscarriage so I can't pretend I know how you feel, but I do know what it's like to be older and feel time slipping away to have a child. It just sucks.
I'm glad you complained about the sonographer. I think sometimes medical staff become a little (or a lot) desensitised. Getting a reminder that you are a human being, not just a patient is a good thing.
I'm so sorry for what you're going through. That woman deserves to be shot - that is just so insensitive and inappropriate. Maybe we go to the same fertility clinic though cos the woman who did my 7 week scan couldn't have been more robotic if she'd tried.
I really hope things work out for you and its not as you fear. Fingers crossed.
Please try not to let the age thing get you down too much. Us old girls can get there - we just need a little more help and the right combinations. I had four losses last year before I got started on the progesterone and pregnyl and now have a sticky bub.
Big hugs to you while you sit out a difficult week.
OK Universe, it's not funny anymore.....
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for you, it is an awful thing to go through, I have been there twice & I know how hard it is, I will be thinking of you & hoping Friday brings you good news 
Nature is cruel but sonographers should not be.
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