Re: 5 miscarriages: Is there anything else we should be doing?

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At Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Kim wrote: >
>I had 3 early miscarriages, then went to a fertility specialist. He
>removed a growth from my uterus and put me on Parlodel to stop lactation
>which I had no idea I had. Iwas released to try again 2/4/92 and was
>pregnant by March. Hormone levels for that pregnancy were good, but I
>had an enlarged yolk sack and the heart beat was really slow. I
>miscarried on Mother's Day. The doctor just told us to try again. I
>learned I was pregnant on August 12, but learned by Aug 15 that my HCG
>and Progesterone were going down rather than up. I started bleeing on
>Aug 19. Again, the doctor told me just to try again and didn't even
>want to see me in his office. My husband and I have had chromosome
>testing and taken a round of antibiotics. I was also tested for lupus
>and had a few other blood tests, but everything has come out normal. I
>am not satisfied with just "trying again" and again and again. It's not
>that easy. Are there other tests we should be having or any procedures
>we could try? I want to be as aggressive as possible. My fertility
>specialist comes highly recommended and is highly respected in his
>field, but he doesn't seem too interested in finding the problem and
>fixing it. Any suggestions?

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