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Question about Molar Pregnancies - women or Dr.'s

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:12:33 -0600 (CST)

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I've read several articles about Molar pregnancies, both complete and Partial. My question is this though: Is it possible for a healthy 23 yr. old female with no history of prior pregnancies at all to suffer a molar pregnancy? >From what I've read, they generally occur after previous miscarriages,
ectopics and in rare occurances after normal delivery, but almost ALWAYS after some type of Previous pregnancy. I ask because my Doc got the preliminary Pathology report on my D&C for a missed abortion and seemed to think it was a molar and has had it sent to another lab for an "expert" opinion. I miscarried at 7.3 weeks and when the HCG test was done one week after fetus died, they were at 135,000. 48 hours later down to 113,000, 5 days later down to 65,000. Nothing has been taken since, it's been two weeks since the procedure, and I've been having odd cramping. Not regular menstrual cramping, but sharp pains that feel like a needle being shoved through my vaginal opening into my uterus. It also hurts my uterus when I push down ,i.e. when I have a bowel movement, and I know this is not related to clogged up bowels or whatever because I've been having 2-3 of those a day. Is my Doc right, will I have to go in for treatment after the other report comes back, or is he just trying to explain a POSSIBLE reason for the miscarriage? On the ultrasound, it showed a complete fetus (head, arms, legs) a placental sac and they very definetly saw a yolk sac with it. By all other measures, it "appeared" to be a normal pregnancy, aside from the fact that no blood supply was seen and No heartbeat was detected.

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