Chemical Pregnancy and now no period. What's going on?

[Belangalo]

Hi All,

After my first round of IVF and a fresh transfer I experienced a chemical pregnancy. I have now had a month to recover and I want to get started on the next transfer! I want to be a mommy so bad!

So I am frustrated that my period has not come. I am always regular as clockwork 28 day cycle. You can set your watch by it. I do understand that after a chemical pregnancy that my body can take between 4-6 weeks to 'reset' but I thought that was because ovulation takes place at a different time. My ovulation (according to my pee sticks) occurred on exactly the same day of my usual 28 day cycle. Hubby and I gave it the old college try even though our chances of natural conception are about the same as me winning a gold medal at the Olympics in gymnastics...so really really low.

But now I am 6 days past my period due date. I had period cramps for about 4 days starting about two days before I was due and going a few days after my period should have arrived. I wiped once and saw a tiny, imperceptible smear of pink. I now feel normal but bloated and a bit more emotional/hormonal which I am actually noticing as it is affecting my day to day life! I get upset over little things and need to talk myself down because there is no need at all to be upset! Not me at all.

I bit the bullet and tried a pregnancy test just to rule it out and got a BFN (another to add to my collection) but still no sign of my period. Please let me know if others have experienced this and if it is normal? I emailed my nurses but have not heard back from them.

Part of me wants to do another pregnancy test because 'tis the season for miracles. But the other part of me just wants my period yesterday because this long delay means no December transfer for me. They will be closed on days when I would need to be monitored so this is a sucky Christmas present for me. I really wanted my transfer this month because I hate losing more time.

Has anyone at all experienced this? Please let me know so I can calm my upset and disappointed ass down. lol

[ChloeDE]

I had an early miscarriage but all the tissue didn't come out naturally. I had to have a procedure. It sounds like you don't have this issue or you wouldn't be testing negative. However, like you, I was desperate to get on with my next step. I took norethisterone for 10 days and this helped bring my period on.

[Belangalo in reply to ChloeDE]

Thank you so much for responding Chloe. That really did help me to calm down. After some serious and painful cramping last night...I had a sudden gush and period is here! Woo hoo! But it still may have come too late for me to have my transfer this month So disappointing!!!

My nurses' first question when they got back to me was whether we had had unprotected sex. They are concerned I just had my first natural conception (miracle!) but that it has now ended up being a chemical again. No no no! Because it means that there may be problems to investigate before this transfer. Honestly, I'm having a bad day. I feel about as close to being a mum as I was at the age of 8 - so incredibly far off it that it's just laughable.

And I was so positive about my first chemical pregnancy too! Since it initially looked like our issue was male infertility coupled with my more advanced maternal age (37 now 38) I was so positive that IVF was really going to bring me closer to becoming a mum. But if I have more significant problems - yes, we need to know - but geez, that dream suddenly seems so much farther away then it was 2 days ago. So I feel blue and like it's just really unfair.

UGH, I need to buck up and just get on with it! I've been playing this infertility game for years now. There have been more setbacks than success but I need to keep my fingers crossed!

Baby dust to you and I hope that you are getting your dream or getting so much closer to being a mommy!! Baby dust to us both!!

[ChloeDE in reply to Belangalo]

It's so hard this fertility journey. But don't give up. I am currently 22 weeks with twins, using donor eggs. Where there's a will, there's a way. X