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Sarah-first of all I am sorry to hear about your baby. How awful that must have been for you both. Could they definitly link progesterone to the cause of your baby's problems because you only took the medicine for 1 month-deformities usually occur due to a chronic situation or of course a genetic problem. Four weeks is not considered chronic use. I personally have taken progesterone with all three of my pregnancy's from the time I ovulated until the time I gave birth and thank god, all of them are healthy. Most studies are over cautious, as they should be, in their reporting of how progesterone "could" affect a pregnancy. It is the same thing as caffeine. They reccomend you don't take in caffeine when you are pregnant because they are being overly cautious. No matter what the reason was for what happened to your child I am just so sorry and could never imaging that pain. I just wanted to make sure that all the good things the medicine has done for millions of mothers didn't get overlooked. Take care and good luck with your family.

I was just reading the postings and wondering if anyone could offer some insight. My doc said that my progesterone level was a little low. I am 4 weeks preg and my level was 18.3(at 3 weeks preg) I am waiting to see if it went up at all. I should know today. Should I be worried? She said my level should be at 21?

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Melissa, I am also 4 weeks with prior 3 miscarriages due to low progesterone. This time I am on the progesterone supplement. My First blood test was tested without the pills on Tuesday and it was 73 for HCG and 9.6 for progesterone. I seen a little bleeding the day I was due for my period but my dr didn't want to take a chance due to my history so I started to take the progesterone pill Tuesday and had another blood test yesterday 1 day later . The dr called with good news the HCG went 193 and my progesterone went up too 20.7 which he said is great. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In first trimester Progesterone levels should range 9-47 and The HCG levels should be in first trimester 4-426.

I m/c recently and now on clomid again. Doc prescribed prog. vaginal suppositories, but the pharmacy gave me a tube of cream and a suringe to administer it. Is this right? I thought suppositories were capsules or something. I really am hoping to get PG again this cycle, and by taking the porgesterone hope to keep it this time. Any advice would be appreciated!

I am in the boat. I have been bleeding for about a week now and have been back and forth between the doctor and the couch. I am going stir crazy with this staying off your feet business. Anyway, I am about 7 weeks and I have already seen a heartbeat on the ultrasound but my progesterone was 9 and my hcg 11,000. A few days later I was retested and my progesterone was 10.5 and hcg went only to 14,000. Doc put me on 200 mg of prometrium 3 times per day but said he was kind of worried because my hcg levels should be doubling. I have to go for another blood test and ultrasound on Monday. Just playing the waiting game until then. This is so frustrating. But finally today, the bleeding has subsided. I guess this is a good sign.

I am 4 weeks along, I began spotting after being put on Progesterone. My level before was 17.?I was told to discontinue the progesterone due to spotting.

Maybe the spotting was due to implantation but the progesterone doesn't cause the spotting....that sounds strange. 17 is pretty good!

My experience is that it is not good. I just went in on Tuesday and there was no heartbeat. I had a DNE on Thurs. I feel fine physically now but it is really hard to go through losing a baby.

I too have just stumbled across this site. Only have way through reading everything but wanted to share why this site has helped me. I am a gestational surrogate for the same family, 3 pregnancies(IVF). First one ended at 6.5 weeks after a bleeding sac. Did see a HB but lost the baby and D&C'd a week later. Second pregnancy- a wonderful little boy, almost 2 years old now. 3rd pregnancy just ended Friday with a D&C after waking up bleeding. Ok, all 3 pregnancies I was on estrogen shots every 3 days and progesterone in oil shots daily. That's 1 ml of 50 mg. Which doesn't make sense because to wean me off they put me on 200 mg prometrium 3 times a day and then 2 times, vaginally. How can that be weaning? Does the shot absorb more? Anyways, never made it to total weaning as I lost the prenancy at 9.5 weeks but they told me it had expired 2 weeks previous. I had an U/S at 7 weeks which showed a healthy HB. Does anyone think the u/s may have caused this? Does anyone know if a surrogate needs three times the hormones as someone carrying naturally their own biological child? Does anyone think that the weaning may have caused the M/C. Or is it most likely something wrong with the embie considering the first m/c? The whole pregnancy I never felt it was right. Little sickness as compared to a lot with my own 4 children and even the other 2 surrogacies. Both the first and last surrogacies had problems with the beta tests. Indicating possible problems from the start. Please comment if anyone knows anything about what I have said. I am glad to have read everything and seen that although I was being weaned off the prog. that I was already taking way more then anyone. That even one 200mg dosage should have been enough. "I hope" I hope my body didn't fail me. I hope that I was also producing my own prog. regardless of it being a surrogacy. Ps. That was my Ip's last chance. IM had a hysterectomy. Those were frozen embies. Thanks and good luck to all of you.

PS. I can't imagine going through a natural miscarrige. I would go through the D&C anytime. I was asleep, woke up, no pain, very little bleeding after 2 days as they clean out most of it. Just my opinion but I would not want to see what comes out. Just my opinion. Thanks.

From what I can tell from researching after my first m/c...hcg and progesterone relate to each other, but are still totally separate issues. Progesterone is considered "normal" if at least at 15 during the start of a pregnancy. Progesterone is what helps sustain the pregnancy. However, if your hcg is not doubling...that's a problem. Whether your progesterone levels are decent or not, if the hcg isn't doubling as expected, that's when most problems and m/c's occur (or at least from what I've personally experienced and what I've had a couple of friend's personally experience). I think progesterone supplements is a tricky subject. I feel that many think that it will save all pregnancies, or are led to believe that if they take it they will sustain a pregnancy after m/c. When, in fact, it may not be a progesterone issue at all causing the m/c(s). Jennifer, I'm not sure what to say on your case. I've only had one friend go thru an IUI which is somewhat different. And that pregnancy did not take either. I would think that the body would need more progesterone in the case of an ivf since your ovary didn't produce the egg which in turn creates the cysts that release progesterone naturally. But I'm not a dr so I'm just guessing on that one. Did they check hcg or progesterone levels on you during the ordeal? And I agree with you on the d&c over the natural m/c. I think I needed the closure, and I think that helped me deal with the loss easier than sitting around waiting for the unexpected.

I have to disagree with D&C over a natural misscarriage. I have had two misscarriages. One happened naturally and the other was a D&C. For me, having it naturally helped me to mentally cope with the loss. I wasn't horribly painful and although you do pass the embryo, somehow going through the contractions and losing it as opposed to having it taken out-was so much easier to accept. When I had my D&C I had went in for a check-up on my spotting and didn't know the baby had already died. I was hemorraging so they did an emergency D&C. I went into the office pregnant and came out having misscarried and my mind could not grasp the concept that I had lost the baby. Plus, because of the sudden loss, my body went from having all these hormones to all of sudden not having them and I was sooo sick for about a week. Lea you are correct in your comments about Hcg and Progesterone being two separate issues. Hcg is the pregnancy hormone and if it does not increase then that means the embryo is not developing. Progesterone is prescribed as a safeguard against the possibility that progesterone levels may not be sufficient and may be the cause of spotting or cramping. Most doctors will do this first, before having patients be billed for very expensive testing on genetic defects or other problems. I have been on progesterone for all but two of my pregnancies. The two I didn't take it for were the ones I misscarried and the others yielded two healthy boys and I am now 36 weeks pregnant with my third and am taking 200 mg prometrium daily. I began spotting and having contractions very early in pregnancy and again, began taking prometrium and thank god, it has gotten me this far. For all of you just starting with your pregnancies, hang in there and keep the faith. Progesterone does not prolong an un healthy pregnancy. If there are genetic problems you will misscarry irregardless of taking the hormone or not. However, if hormone levels are the issue then progesterone supplements will help your body maintain the proper level until your placenta is able to take over. Usually at about 12 weeks) Good luck to all and I will pray for all of us to have healthy pregnancies and babies!

I'm not sure how far along I am, around 5 weeks. My HCG is fine, but my progest. level is a 6 and it should be a 11/12. I've been spotting for 2 full weeks and I'm scared too death. I know the stress is worse for my body than anything so I try to stay calm. I will start the cream hopefully today. Thanks for not making me feel so alone!

I ovulated between Aug 8th through Aug 11th. I had blood work done to find this out. My fertility doctor put me on vaginal suppositories. I go back for another blood test next week. They want to make sure my prog. levels are higher than 10.2. I will lso find out if I am pregnant. Good luck to all couples out there. I know how it to try. We have been trying for quite a while.

G-d answers all prayers! just believe.

I am in exact same situation as Sharon. I had spotting last Saturday. The doctor determined my Progesterone was 9.6 and should be 11. I am on supplements as well, 200mg/twice a day. I had a sonogram today and no heartbeat was visible. (However they said that sometimes it is hard to find this early on.) I have to go back next week. The sonogram people seemed optomistic telling me that my "sac" looked good. I am trying to be positive too, but it is really difficult when you have no idea what is going on! I wish you all the best of luck and feel free to email me at AprilLKenney@verizon.net