6mp and miscarriage... Need positive reassurance

I am so sorry that this happened to you! I think you are right, though... it is likely that your miscarriage is not related to the 6mp or the UC. I am currently pregnant (17 weeks), and I am on Asacol. My positive story is that we tried to get pregnant for four years. No infertility treatment worked, so we gave up. Three months later, I turned up pregnant.

During the time we were trying, I did a ton of research, and everything said that UC does not affect fertility or pregnancy. My GI concurred. Still, I always blamed the infertility on my UC (regardless of what the science was telling me), and obviously, I was wrong about that because I still have UC and now I am pregnant. My GI tells me that his hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, has a ton of 6 mp babies and even a few Remicade babies.

Hang in there... this will happen for you! I have a friend who has two healthy children after 7 miscarriages... and she is a perfectly healthy woman, just a little older in age (like me). Sometimes, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

I am sorry to hear about your loss. We had problems getting pregnant - nothing to do with UC. My body did not produce enough of a hormone that is needed to keep you from losing a baby-

I do think it happens more than what people realize, that being said after our loss I was pregnant again 3 months later, to a very very active healthy boy that does not let the grass grow under his feet.

Again, I am sorry, I would not wish the loss of a child in the womb or out on worst friend.

Billie Jo

I am very sorry too.

My GI co-authored a study about pregnancy and 6-mp; he told me that 6-mp is safe for the fetus, he told me that a flare is more harmful for a fetus than 6-mp. He offered to show me a whole wall of baby photos that he had in his office of healthy babies that were born to mothers that were on 6-mp while pregnant.(I was telling him that I was reluctent to take 6mp at first) I would suggest seeing a GI who specializes in pregnancies and IBDs, Or a OBGYN that specializes in high risk pregnancies.

--Keith

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DX'd with Pan-Colitis June 2005