Anyone take Asprin ?

[bny807]

I was wandering who all takes asprin for fertility/miscarriage prevention?   Also if you do, have the doctors found something in your bloodwork and therefore told you that you should take a baby asprin, or do you just try it anyways.. and lastly.. anyone take it and have a successful pregnancy? esp after miscarriage?  Thanks! : )

[Juana824]

Hi Bny807!

I have always been given aspirin as a part of my regimin(sp?). My last cycle was a BFP but I miscarried at 8 1/2 weeks (no fetal pole, no heart beat). I have a DVT (recurring blood clot) in my left leg and am sometimes placed on Lovenox to help thin my blood. When I am taking aspirin, I don't have to take the Lovenox...Good luck to you!

[cure65roses]

Here is what I take:

Morning:
1 baby aspirin
B6

Evening:
B Complex
B12
Folic Acid
C (500)
E (400)

I feel really good about this regimen!

[cure65roses]

Oh and by the way, I take these on my own accord, my dr. hasn't mentioned any of them.

[Heather5]

Hi bny! I'm also taking it on a daily basis. I do have Factor V, which puts me at higher risk for developing blood clots...but according to my previous RE, it's a pretty common addition to fertility treatment if you've had a miscarriage.

:-)

[bny807]

Thanks girls! see i do worry a little bit about doing it.. the first pregnancy i just took my Multivitamin and then prenatal when we found out.. and had no bleeding, infact i waited for weeks to start the miscarriage bleeding after we found out the pregnancy was not viable.. so the second pregnancy i was taking an extra folic acid in addition to my prenatal (since it can thin the blood like asprin) and i had all that bleeding.. so that makes me a little hesitant.. what do you think? also around the time of my last miscarriage, i scratched myself and had a superficial abrasion that wouldnt stop bleeding for the longest time.. i was afraid my blood was too thin?? hummmm

[alaskacouple]

** I found this on another site, and it applies to me. I have suffered 2 'early miscarriages', then was diagnosed with MTHFR. I also take Lovenox injections with each IVF cycle.

I am compound heterozygous for MTHFR and take one baby aspirin and 4 mg of folic acid every day. This is a safety issue as MTHFR is "inherited thrombophilia" and makes us somewhat more likely than others to have health issues that relate to blood clots (such as heart attacks, strokes, DVT's...)

MTHFR can interfere with our body's ability to process folic acid. Our serum (blood) levels of folic acid may look normal, but we may not be absorbing it from the blood stream as we should. As a result, our clotting process may not be normal (a lot of MTHFR patients bruise easily, which is confusing... how could we also clot too quickly? Yet it's true...) and we are in greater danger of having little clots for no reason.

The teeniest, tiniest blood vessels are actually the ones in the uterus as the embryo is trying to attach and the fetus is trying to grow, so that's a very likely place to clot, and can cause very early m/c (also called implantation problems), m/c in the first trimester, and even late m/c or stillbirth if not properly treated.

Many of us MTHFRers (LOL, that looks pretty bad!) also have elevated anti-phospholipid antibodies; the two are often associated. Be sure to have a full APA panel run (21 APA's not just two or three). Elevated APA's are "inherited throbophilia." Many women with one or both forms of throbophilia are on baby aspirin and Fogard for life AND Lovenox injections thoughout pg.

[Hoping4_2]

I was told to take baby asprin w/ both my IVFs.

[bny807]

WOw thanks alaska, that was great info!   Thanks Hoping! I appreciate all of yalls opionins and info! humm.. so many decisions with this whole ttc thing who knew!