Heterozygous MTHFR - By Egg

I met with the new doctor on Friday and showed her my records from my RE. Right away she noticed something from the panel of blood test. She said that I am a carrier for a blood clot disorder, called Heterozygous MTHFR mutation. At this moment as she was explaining what this meant, I had a strange mixture of emotions. Part of me was relieved to finally have an answer to what had most likely caused my 2 miscarriages, months and months of tests, I swear if I heard "unexplained" one more time, I was going to scream! The other part of me was registering that she was telling that I may never carry a baby to term, unless I take shots every day for my entire pregnancy.

Because I have the single mutation and am only a carrier, there is a chance I could just take a baby aspirin every day and that would help. Apparently even though I could never have clots that are dangerous to me, I have very tiny ones that could harm a small fetus and baby aspirin could be enough. However that word "could" kept bothering me. A more agressive approach would be to take Lovenox shots every day from 4 weeks until delivery. At first she recommended next time I get pregnant I try the baby aspirin and if that doesn't work (meaning I miscarry again), then we try the Lovenox. I asked if I could just take the Lovenox and she said she would be ok with that.

I have at least 4 weeks (I'm waiting for AF so at the very beginning of my cycle) to decide but I'd rather be more agressive and avoid having another miscarriage (ever!). I wish I had a crystal ball that told me that all I had to do was take a small pill every day and that would work, but I don't know and the shot doesn't seem so bad. I know there are risks, but I've read of so many success stories too. I have a lot of questions, I will post any more information I find out when I have my next appt. (hopefully in 4 weeks).

She did give me the 100 mg clomid so we will start that on cd 3-7.