Antinuclear Antibodies

Hi there

I had some tests done re my miscarriages and the only thing that came back was that I tested positive for antinuclear antibodies. My doctor put me on 150mg of low does aspirin and sent me away to try again.
Has anyone else been diagnosed with this and gone on to have a successful pregnancy?

Looks like its just me and you didi! I am taking 150mg of low dose aspirin now so hopefully that will do the trick. The specialist seems to think so anyway. Trying real hard to be healthy now, we are trying again next month so I need to get my body up to scratch. Decided to cut out alcohol too - going to have to give up at some stage so it may as well be now. Asides from affecting fertility, its not good for my skin or my belly
Thrown away my thermometer and charting pad too - want to take a different approach to TTC. I figure when our little button is ready to join us it will. When are you trying again??

Last time I gave up the vino I replaced it with chocolate which is also not very good for the belly! Whoops.
I feel good about my decision. Decided that by giving up wine, geting fit and healthy and starting to enjoy life without TTC hanging over our heads this would send out good positive vibes to the universe.   I'm also going to start painting the 'babies room' which will be a good project for me anyway.
Can understand how much you want to try again but I guess your naturopath is right - give the herbs a chance to work so you dont have to go through this again

Havnt heard of it, but I too hope the asprin and herbs help girls and your in a due in thread soon x

Hiya,

I think this is exactly what I have too

I'm with FA in Hamilton and my Dr has started me on a new IVF protocol called Colardo, basically I start taking asprin before my next period, antibiotics around transfer time, also some steriods (not so sure about this ) and after transfer I get to do the lovely pessary thing along with an oral progesterone tablet.

This will be my last embie, so fingers crossed it does the trick this time as I think the waiting list for another round of IVF is about 18months and at 36 I'm not getting any younger!

Wishing you ladies the best of luck and I will be lurking to see how you get on.

Hey thats really interesting re the vit D. I've always had trouble with my back and last year around this time it was giving me grief so my doctor did some blood tests to see if anything showed up with them. All that came back was that I was really low in Vit D, she gave me some pills to take and told me to get some sun. I'm far from a sun worshiper, I cant sit out it in for more than about 30 min before I start to feel sick. I wonder if this is the case for me too? Interesting!

I have quite a bad sun allergy last summer it has been really bad to the point that my face was so swollen I had issues actually seeing.
I am actually seeing a naturopath at this point (as they won’t see you medically until 3 MC's) she is the one that has asked for all these tests I am just really lucky that my GP is happy to play ball and order everything my naturopath asks for. I think she just saw the fact that I tend to avoid too much sun exposure and cover up due to my allergy that the likelihood of low vitD was high.
I have had a good look and there doesn't seem to be a solid link between vit D and MC's but there looks like there is some research to suggest there may be a link. MrsH if you have had low vit D levels in the past I don't think it would do you any harm to take a supplement.
It is interesting though as we also tested my Thyroid which has come back fine however my naturopath still recons that it is not working right because I have a low BBT and I am still taking support for it. Based on my research I am not sure if I actually agree with her on this one, I will question her next visit but I have made a decision to try this so I think I need to commit to what she says for now and everything else makes sense.

I think I will look at taking a vit D supplement. I feel like I have so many pills to pop at the moment! Maybe a preg supplement might be the go? I will talk to someone at the health food shop and see what they say. I promised myself I wouldn't google all this stuff about ANA but hey, what do you know. Now I have just given myself something else to panic about. Sigh... My Mum suffered from an over active thyroid and ended up having her thyroid removed. My sister reckons I need mine tested but as you said Scaredy Cat, I've had soooooo many tests you would think they would've done that?!

When are you trying again SC?

Yeah, I read the m/c support thread on everybody.co.nz. I joined when I had my first m/c and posted a few times but dont now, just read and watch. I think one forum is enough to cope with!
My temps were around 36.4 - 36.6 before ov and after ov they went up to around 36.8 - 37.0, higher if I was pg.

Your temps sound like they are in quite a good range MrsH My naturopath wants my first half to be round 36.3 at the lowest and the second at least 36.6. Thats like over 0.2 higher than where I sit now which is a big jump. Still not completely convinced this is a definate link to my thyroid. Don't know what is up with my chart this cycle it is so all over the show, really driving me up the wall. My emotions are all over the place too I was up till 2am just having a big cry, feeling really sad and overwhelmed by everything at the moment.

Lot's of sticky vibes for your transfer ScaredyCat, not far away now.