Chemical pregnancy - what tests or changes were made on your next cycle

Hi ladies

Following my chemical pregnancy being confirmed yesterday just wondered what tests or changes you/your clinic made for your next cycle if any. ?

Wondering whether I should have tests for things such as blood clotting/sticky blood, thrombophilia, lupus anticoagulant, , vit d, immune testing which could rule out these type of problems.

I have also read that low levels of progesterone could be the cause my levels are never checked does anyone have theirs checked ? I was on 2x progesterone pessaries I have seen lots of you ,mentioning you also have injections?

Any advice would be welcome ahead of my review meeting I unfortunately feel I always have to go there with loads of questions and suggestions as they don’t tend to come up with much. Xx

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Hiya. Is this your first chemical or have you already had a MC? From what I understand they don’t tend to test for much after one chemical as unfortunately they are quite common (more common than MC) and are often down to bad luck rather than a genetic issue.

What pessaries were you on? I was on 2 x 400 cyclogest a day and when I asked the clinic they said this was ‘much more than you need’

Have you always been on the same protocol? Sometimes changing it makes a real difference.

If it’s any consolation my last review was basically just do it all again exactly as we did last time and hope for more luck which I am not sure has much medical basis x

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Thanks for your response Daisy. No MC this is my only Chemical Pregnancy. I am the same 2x 400 cyclogest. I had the max dosage in my last cycle which in the end worked well as the most successful cycle. So I think the hospital will stick with this. I am going to suggest doing my last fresh cycle due to my age with the hope I get some to freeze as the frozen cycle seemed to work better for me. I would then not have any transferred. I am keen to have the nk killer cells test before another transfer but not sure I will be able to as starting new job Sept and already have to take 9 days as 2 pre booked holidays before the end of the year. So not really going to be able to take 2 days off which this would entail (over 2 months). Just keen to have any add tests that could help rule out things like killler cells, immune problems etc so I can say I have tried everything and not find these things out before all attempts done. So take it the hosp didn’t recommend any tests like that for you or tablets etc? Xx

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Hi Coral76

I was told last Friday that wehad a chemical pregnancy! For me to cope I am referring to it as an early miscarriage!

It was my 7th transfer with an AB embryo but my first positive test!

My history is long and complex and am giving I think my clinic and my DH a run for their money!!

The only change this time was I had no steroids following the results of the NK biopsies that I had in the summer this year and I had an extra day of progesterone pessaries as per advices by the ERA result last year!

I thought and was told I was less stressed too.... although the process does cause anxiety levels to raise!

Please any questions, if I can help I will xx