Re: My personal nightmare: THIRD miscarriage
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:39:01 -0600 (CST)
You poor thing!! About the LSD: I know a bunch of women that were heavy
trippers and have healthy children. Please don't beat yourself up about
that. If that were true, MANY people would not bear or have beared
children.
The HPV question piques my curiosity though. A close girlfriend of mine
was diagnosed her junior year in college. While she has no trouble
getting pregnant, she has had trouble maintaining pregnancy. I myself
would be curious to know if there is a possible correlation.
I hope everything turns out okay for you. Keep us posted, okay?
-Dalane
At Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Caroline wrote:
>
>I'm three weeks shy of 40 years old and just learned I had my third
>miscarriage within one year. First two were conceived naturally and
>lost at eight weeks due to chromosomal abnormalities: Trisomy 21 and 22.
>The most recent was conceived through IVF, which we did only because we
>were hoping to do preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
>
>There were not enough viable embryos to do PGD so we took our chances
>and transferred two embryos that I was told were "optimal." I was
>pregnant, but my Beta levels did not rise as they should have, and I was
>told this would not be a viable pregnancy. (It went from 141 to 328 to
>469 to 699 from one Friday to the next.) Any chance this could still
>work? And if not, will I just bleed it out?
>
>More important: Can my inability to maintain a pregnancy have anything
>to do with:
>
>1. Tripping on LSD more than 20 times in college, between 1980 and
>1982; and/or
>2. Having been diagnosed with gonorrhea and genital warts twice in
>college.
>
>Thank you.
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