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Re: absorption of Ectopic pregnancy

From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:23:21 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Susan wrote: >
>Dr. von Almen responded to my previous request--thanks for the
>information. I have a further question. In my previous message, I
>described lower right pelvic pain I had back in March that was the same
>pain (although not as severe) as I got recently with this ectopic
>pregnancy. We were trying to get pregnant at that time, but I had 3
>negative urine pregnancy tests at that time, and a few weeks after the
>pain began, an ultrasound came back normal. My pregnancy book says that
>some ectopic pregnancies are absorbed before the woman even knows she's
>pregnant; is it possible that I had an ectopic pregnancy back in March
>that reabsorbed itself and that's what caused the pain then? It took 20
>days after I ovulated this time to get a positive urine home pregnancy
>test; could it just take a long time for my HCG to build up enough to
>make the urine tests positive? My OB said my tube was probably bad, so
>maybe that could have caused an ectopic before this one that reabsorbed.
>What do you think?
>
>--
>Thanks! Susan Lee
>

Susan

ANything is possible, but we will never know. I would be more in favor of that pain being a ruptured cyst or something since you did not have a positive pregnancy test. Hope this helps.

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William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG
Editorial Advisor-Pregnancy and Birth
Private Practice
New Orleans, La.

*Please understand I can not respond to private emails.

*These comments are for educational purposes only.  They are
not meant to take the place of an examination by a qualified
health care provider.  They are not intended to be the start
of a physician-patient relationship.

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