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can cycles improve after a mc?
morning ladies! bit of a random one but can anyone help?
I came off the pill in April 09 and had three cycles (130 days, 50 days and 47 days) before I got my BFP. Even though my cycles were really long (grrr) I felt like I was starting to get my head round what my body was doing, hence the BFP, but after my mc, one of my biggest fears is that my body will be mucked up again and it'll be like coming off the pill and I'll be waiting months for my cycles to sort into any kind of pattern!
Now, I was speaking to a friend about my mc the other day and she said that sometimes pregnancy can improve cycles (length and regularity -is that a word?) because the pregnancy helps kickstart all the right hormones. She might have just been saying this to be supportive, and I might just be grasping at straws but has anyone else heard or experienced this?
lb xx
I came off the pill in April 09 and had three cycles (130 days, 50 days and 47 days) before I got my BFP. Even though my cycles were really long (grrr) I felt like I was starting to get my head round what my body was doing, hence the BFP, but after my mc, one of my biggest fears is that my body will be mucked up again and it'll be like coming off the pill and I'll be waiting months for my cycles to sort into any kind of pattern!
Now, I was speaking to a friend about my mc the other day and she said that sometimes pregnancy can improve cycles (length and regularity -is that a word?) because the pregnancy helps kickstart all the right hormones. She might have just been saying this to be supportive, and I might just be grasping at straws but has anyone else heard or experienced this?
lb xx
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I had an ERPC on 9th January and was still showing as pg on tests a couple of weeks ago (on CBD I was 2-3 weeks pg)! I took one this morning which showed negative so I'm hoping hormones going to go back to normal now. I have been having lots of CM this past week so not sure if OV or just hormones playing tricks on me. My hair keeps going really greasy too even after just washing it so I know my hormones are crazy (I had this when pg with 1st lo in 1st trimester).
I have read Af can return in a range of 4-8 weeks after an ERPC. Not sure if you had natural mc or not.
After all that rambling your friend could be right as it happens after pg, but I'm not sure after a mc, although all the same hormones would have been working for a while. Let's hope we get our AF's soon eh?!
Good luck xx
Gxx
ccbmommy - I had a natural mc, and I was lucky that the bleeding didn't last too long and my hcg levels dropped fairly quickly, so I'm hoping that my body won't have been too disrupted (if you know what I mean!?)
gemgems - congrats on your BFP and I hope baby enjoyed its first holiday!
I had a mmc and had to have a erpc anyone else like me??
Before we conceived our 1st pg my cycles were all over the place, I came off depo exactly a year before we conceived.
After that mmc it took a while for my 1st Af but they settled into a routine of 32 days (much shorter than before)& after another 3 mc later they still go back to 32 days.
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As for fainting from period pains, I'm sure you're glad to see the back of that m&s!? if men even knew what we go through.......!