I feel silly about continuing to enter cycle data into Fertility Friend's free charting program. But I still do. By default, a new chart started for me the day I entered 'light' for the menses/spotting form. But is that really cycle day 1? I know the cycle days are going to be completely off and wacky until I get my next period, but it just seems wrong to view the first flow of the miscarriage as the beginning of a new cycle rather than the end of a pregnancy. Actually, I don't think I will really view this whole long cycle as over until the menstrual period following the miscarriage. That will be my beginning.
For now, the miscarriage is beginning. I think. Things picked up last night and I actually had some cramping. I went to bed with my prescription vicodin nearby just in case. I really thought I would be in the throes of contractions and passing tissue today. Nope.
There have been a few medium sized clots that pass when I pee, and it is all red now, like a light period. Usually on the first day of my period I have cramps and require a couple doses of ibuprofen to counter the pain. So far, I have a light to medium flow of red blood and no menstrual like cramps. It is a bit confusing.
3 comments:
has your clinic explained what to expect with the miscarriage and what happens after? I'm sorry you are going through this still and wish it would be over so you can heal and move to next step. I'm thinking of you.
FF did the same thing to me and I think ultimately I chose the day after the actual passing of the embryo as my CD1, I just manually changed it when the actual event happened. Things will be all wonky for a bit anyway, so it doesn't really matter when CD1 is and I would say feel free to change it and make CD1 whatever day you want once the miscarriage is over.
Sounds like things are progressing as they should, good luck, now that you've really started bleeding it's almost over!
I think I chose the first day of bright red blood as CD1 and then chose "miscarriage" at the days where I passed most of the tissue. It helped me separate the "cycle" of pregnancy from the "cycle" of loss.
I'm glad to hear that things are finally moving forward.
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