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Re: My personal nightmare: THIRD miscarriage

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:20:26 -0600 (CST)

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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?

Yes

And if not, will I just bleed it out?

Probably >
>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

Probably not

>2. Having been diagnosed with gonorrhea and genital warts twice in
>college.

Probably not. Most likely it is due to your age >
>Thank you.

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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