Do we post-ops have more losses?

Do we post-ops have more losses?

I doubt it.

Many women will experience a loss and not even know it.  we test so early these days with tests so sensitive that what before would just seem like a few days longer of a cycle is now a loss. 

sometimes its just what happens. :(

My OB said that 30% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. It is very common. Surgery or not.

Jackie

My response is no... because your reproductive organs are not connected to your digestive system! Millions of women were having losses way before WLS surgery came to exist.

My guess is that this (and any other place pregnant / TTC women gather) is that testing is going on very early in the pregnancy (I got a BFP 3 days before my missed period) so we just know earlier whi*****reases the risk of miscarriage even more (or the risk of us KNOWING it was a miscarriage) If you are finding out at 4 weeks instead of say 6-8 weeks that is extra time where if you miscarried you would think that your period was just late (especially with PCOS patients or people who were heavy enough to not have regular periods). In my case I would have known anyway since I didn't miscarry on my own and was at 11 weeks (blighted ovum - sac stopped growing at 8 weeks)

I think someone else (Jackie I believe) mentioned that the miscarriage rate is 25-30% in the first trimester. So that 25-30 people out of every 100 - in a place where TTC women gather unfortunately it is going to seem high because there is a high concentration of people.

Just my 2 cents.

Liz

I don't think so.

I have had 2 co-workers go through it all within the last month. My sister had the same thing happen before her last pregnancy.

I know so many people who have had losses over the last few years and not ONE of them are WLS patients. I can count 8 people off the top of my head that are my friend/family, including myself that have gone through it over the last couple of years and I am the only one who had WLS.

It just may seem like alot because this board is all WLS patients so it's something we all have in common. But so many other people around us suffer the same thing.