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High FSH but recently pregnant
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Machelle Seibel, MD - Women's Health, menopause, ReproductiveMedicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
MA
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High FSH but recently pregnant
by janemelbourne, Aug 15, 2007 11:06PM
Hi,
I stopped taking the pill in August 2006 and started having reg. periods every 40 days give or take a few days. After Christmas we started trying to get pregnant and got pregnant in May. 7/8 weeks later I miscarried. After 3 months with no period I went to the doctor and got the following blood results:
FSH 60.9 U/L
LH 17.2 U/L
Progesterone 1.2
Oestradiol 46 pmol/L
My GP spoke to an endocronolgist and I am now taking Primulot N to bring on a period.
Does this high FSH mean I am in menopause? And if yes how could i get pregnant 5 months a go?
Will I be able to get pregnat again?
What if I don't get a period after Primulot?
Is it possible to have a high FSH as a once off and it be meaningless? If I am mid-cycle and the FSH is high is that less significant than if it was high at day 3?
I have just turned 32
Very scared.
Thank you in advance.
I stopped taking the pill in August 2006 and started having reg. periods every 40 days give or take a few days. After Christmas we started trying to get pregnant and got pregnant in May. 7/8 weeks later I miscarried. After 3 months with no period I went to the doctor and got the following blood results:
FSH 60.9 U/L
LH 17.2 U/L
Progesterone 1.2
Oestradiol 46 pmol/L
My GP spoke to an endocronolgist and I am now taking Primulot N to bring on a period.
Does this high FSH mean I am in menopause? And if yes how could i get pregnant 5 months a go?
Will I be able to get pregnat again?
What if I don't get a period after Primulot?
Is it possible to have a high FSH as a once off and it be meaningless? If I am mid-cycle and the FSH is high is that less significant than if it was high at day 3?
I have just turned 32
Very scared.
Thank you in advance.
Doctor's Answer
by Machelle Seibel, MD, Aug 24, 2007 10:48AM
, Aug 24, 2007 10:48AM
What you are describing is very confusing and upsetting for a young woman trying to conceive. At 32 it seems you should have plenty of time to get pregnant. But for about 1 percent of women, the transition to menopause comes much earlier than expected, sometimes when a woman is in her 20s or even in her teens.
The fact that you got pregnant is very good. But it does not mean you can or will again. Your blood tests suggest you might have been able to conceive because you were on the pill and this was shortly after coming off of it.
Go see a reproductive endocrinologist and talk with them (ie a fertility expert). They might try giving you medications that contain LH and FSH to try and stimulate an egg to develop. They might give you another type of medication to turn off your ovaries for a while like the pill did and then treat you with fertility medications. They might draw a blood test every few months and when the FSH goes down, use that window of time to treat with fertility drugs. They might talk with you about using the egg of another woman to try and conceive (egg donation) but using your husbands sperm and you carry the pregnancy. Whether or not you bleed after the Primulot will not determine if you can have a baby. So go see a fertility specialist soon.
Machelle M. Seibel, MD
The fact that you got pregnant is very good. But it does not mean you can or will again. Your blood tests suggest you might have been able to conceive because you were on the pill and this was shortly after coming off of it.
Go see a reproductive endocrinologist and talk with them (ie a fertility expert). They might try giving you medications that contain LH and FSH to try and stimulate an egg to develop. They might give you another type of medication to turn off your ovaries for a while like the pill did and then treat you with fertility medications. They might draw a blood test every few months and when the FSH goes down, use that window of time to treat with fertility drugs. They might talk with you about using the egg of another woman to try and conceive (egg donation) but using your husbands sperm and you carry the pregnancy. Whether or not you bleed after the Primulot will not determine if you can have a baby. So go see a fertility specialist soon.
Machelle M. Seibel, MD
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