Hello lovely folks
I fairly certain I'm having a miscarriage and this feels very strange. I'm almost disbelieving the possibility.
I started HRT at the end of October 2017 and was technically, just, in menopause as I hadn't had a period for a year when I started the HRT. I've been using HRT since then (so, for just over a year and four months). I'm 52.
I've been having unprotected sex with my partner since I thought there was no chance of me getting pregnant. In fact, when I started HRT (due to a diagnosis of severe ostoeoporosis in my lower spine) my consultant didn't say anything about using contraception, although I had just separated from my last partner (which I'd told him) so perhaps he didn't feel the need to give me that advice.
I'm on three pumps of Estrogel per day, 10 days of progestogen (utrogesten 100) per month, as well as a tiny blob of testim daily/every other day.
One thing I noticed when I started the HRT was that my mid-cycle 'fertile discharge' reappeared, which I thought was odd but didn't bother asking about it because I thought I was done with all of that.
I've had miscarriages before, so recognise the difference between a period (even a heavy one) and a miscarriage, and I realised last night that the 'weird' symptoms I've been having for the last two weeks could have been pregnancy symptoms. My breasts have been agonisingly painful, my bras no longer fit (in a short period of time - and I haven't put on weight anywhere else) and I've been very short of breath (although I've just moved to Mexico City for work for a while and was wondering if I'd been adjusting to altitude). These are all the early symptoms of pregnancy that I've experienced before.
I've been having stomach cramps all week since starting the progestogen round last Friday (March 1), and felt incredibly weak and lifeless yesterday afternoon, then I flooded and started to miscarry (if that is what it is) last night.
Is it really possible that I was pregnant? I've feeling almost embarrassed to think that it might be possible. I honestly thought it couldn't happen. I was explaining away my symptoms and putting them down to other things. Pregnancy just didn't enter my head. But my symptoms are identical to my previous pregnancies. And my breasts are feeling much less painful today and my shortness of breath has improved massively since I started to bleed heavily. A coincidence?
Has anyone else got pregnant after going through menopause and starting HRT?
Thank you for reading, but I'm very puzzled, confused and upset x