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I HATE pcos! Now more than ever.From: Kallie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:43:02 -0500 (CDT)
- I am having so many emotions right now. Mainly, I am angry and hurt. I may be sitting here now losing my baby - and it could have been prevented. All the pain I am in and the bleeding - wasn't necessary. Pcos means that the ovaries may not produce enough progesterone to sustain a pregnancy. I brought this up to my Dr. (OB) on my first prenatal visit on 8-28-00. He agreed that we would monitor the progesterone levels because of the pcos. To be honest I all but forgot about progesterone until last week when the other Dr. in the practice put me on the vaginal supplements. I mean, we had done the test on 8-28 - I assumed if there was a problem when the tests came back I would have been notified. I mean - that is how it is supposed to work, otherwise what the hell was the test done for? Well someone made a mistake. I got the results from last Thursday's progesterone test before I started the supplements, it was 5.1. I read on the Internet recently that it should be at least 25 to sustain a pregnancy. The Dr. who prescribed the prog. said the level had to be at least 20. Here is the kicker - I asked what my level was from the test done on 8-28 and it was only 7.7 then. I am so crushed. I could have been on this treatment over 3 weeks before it was started - if only someone had read my test results. Instead - my baby is fighting a battle for life, I am in tremendous pain and am bleeding. Let alone if this pregnancy sustains - I haven't even researched what kind of adverse effects may have occurred from the progesterone deficiency. How could this happen? All I can do now is rest and pray - and even so it may be too late. I don't think this has sunk in, God, please forbid I lose this baby - please help me make this error right. I felt like I did everything I could about the pcos effecting this pregnancy by requesting specific tests and asking for follow-ups MORE blood work and endless question on what *I* could do to help keep this pregnancy. Now it seems I missed the most important thing - If I had only called to ask how that 1st round of blood work was - maybe someone would have caught this earlier when it would have surely mad a difference. I'm sorry this is so long- I really just needed to vent and this seemed like the only place that would understand my pain and frustration.
-- Kallie
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