Re: 11 week miscarriage preventable with Clomid/Progesterone?

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Lucy, Unfortunately, we do not know the cause of at least 2/3's of first trimester pregnancy losses. Emperic progesterone is used in cases of recurrent loss in an effort to "do something" because there is nothing else that we know of to do. Whether or not progesterone used in this way works is controversial. As for the clomid, I think that is putting the cart before the horse. If ovulation occurs, which it did, then a corpus luteum is formed-this is all clomid will do. I would not use clomid in this picture... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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