carmen

Hi all,

Well i just been to have another scan this morning and they said that everything had come out except 2cm tissue.

So yes it better to have D + C, great but they can t fit me in until next Thursday. So maybe the tissue will come away by then.

I m a little bit angry at my body why put everthing out, but 2 cm tiisue.

I m telling myself to stay positive but its not easy.

I asked for antibiotics and they said its not necessary till after the surgery??

But what if i have an infection now.

snowflake

Hi Carmen,

I think once you have the D&C you will start to feel alot better both physically and emotionally. I know once I had it I was able to think about moving forward, even if it was only slightly.

I wouldn't worry too much if you haven't been prescribed antibiotics just yet. I wasn't given any either before or after the D&C and I am fine now. I still get the odd twinge here and there but it is obviously my body returning to normal.

Hope all goes well for you on Thursday.

carmen

i agree with you snowflake, i am really wanting to look forward now.

The only thing i m thiking is the babys heart beat stopped well before xmas i think so its a lot of time in there, so i don t want to have that risk of infection.

But yeah if the doctors hasn t prescribed then it should be o.k.

And i just want my body to feel right again.

carmen

Snowflake,

with your last miscarriage when you had d+c , did you bleed alot afterwards?

snowflake

Hi Carmen,

No, I didn't bleed at all after the D&C. I had slight brown spotting for a day or so but that was it. Having said that though, I took pessaries the day before the D&C to bring on contractions and a bleed as my gyni said it was much safer to perform the D&C while bleeding. I bled alot for that day and night and eventually passed the baby myself so when I went for the D&C the following day my gyni said there was little or nothing left.

carmen

Oh i see,

Well its a bit like me then except i m not bleeding alot. But after taking the pessaries i have bled and everything is out except the little bit.

I am just hoping that before the D+C that little bit comes out, but then agin now i just want it over with so i don t mind the thought of the d+c

jo27

Hi
Sorry to hear your news, i also had a missed miscarriage and opted to let it happen naturally when i went back for my scan they advised there was still some of the lining to come away but everything looked as though it had cleared out fine. Don't worry if you do need to have a D&C a lot of women opt for this (in hindsight i wish i had would have got it over with a lot quicker and been a lot less painful) good luck i hope everything goes well x

Jazzy

I have no advise for you hun, just wanted to say sorry for your loss

AS1

Hi Carmen

I am so sorry for your loss. As you have read from my post I too was confused about the best option. In the end I opted for the D&C as I felt that if the foetus had not come away by itself after 3.5 weeks that it probably wouldn't. I was confused and afterwards I wondered if the pills alone may have worked for me as I started to bleed within an hour of taking them. I really hope that you can avoid the D&C after all you have been through and maybe by next week the remaining lining may have come away by itself. Hopefully you will not require antibiotics and will not have an infection - I'm sure the doctor should be able to advise you of what is best.

The only thing I can say it that the D&C allowed me to start trying to deal with things emotionally and physically - I can only imagine what you are going through as I found the days waiting on the operation to be the worst I just wanted the whole thing over.

Anyway let us know how you get on and try and not worry too much about the op if you do have to have it, it really is over before you know it.

xx

carmen

Thanks for your support everyone, and i m now thinking on the positive side i have till next week to see of that little bit of skin does pass naturally.
I think i will book in for another scan two days before the operation, and then maybe its clean, i cross my fingers. But if not i m not going to worry, it is a shame to have d+c after all this but if necessary to ttc again... i'll do anything.