Posted by on June 10, 19100 at 07:31:04:
In Reply to: Question for Doctor? posted by Delilah Clabough on June 09, 19100 at 11:35:17:
Delilah,
Sorry to hear about the loss of your pregnancy at four months. Technically your doctors are right, it is a miscarriage. I know that for a woman who truly wants a child that each pregnancy loss is really a loss of a baby.
There are several reasons why a woman might have contractions at the time of her pregnancy loss. the first is that contractions are the way the uterus puches out whatever is inside it. If your pregnancy stopped growing for any reason, you would most commonly have contractions when the uterus expelled the fetus.
Sometimes other tyoes of conditions can cause the uterus to contract and push out an otherwise viable fetus, a uterine septum or other congenital uterine abnormality, or a large intrauterine fibroid are examples. The best way to evaluate your uterus is with a hysterosalpingogram or hysterosaline examination.
Irregular menstrual periods often mean irregular ovulation. The estrogen shot may help your bleeding but it won't help you to ovulate.
You need to be evaluated by a reproductive endocrinologist who can evaluate the various issues that you have raised.
Good Luck.
Dr. Barad
: I have been preganant one time which was in 1994. That
: ended in what the doctors called a misscarrage. But
: what really happened was I went into labor.The only
: problem was I was only 4 months preganant. They never
: found anything wrong with her or me. Since then
: and before I have had irregular periods some with pain.
: I have now been married for 4 years with out any
: success at getting preganant. 3 weeks ago I went to the
: doctor to get help. I had been bleeding for 11 weeks.
: She said that it was either lack of estrogen or
: progestrin. And since I can not swallow pills she gave
: me a shot of estrogen. And told me that if this stopped
: my bleeding that this was my problem. Well I did stop.
: And now my question is could this have caused me to
: loose my baby and can this be taken on a regular basis
: to keep me regular so that I can have a baby?