Re: Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

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I know exactly what you are experiencing. I had a miscarriege like yours and had to wait six months to start trying again (afterwards I read that a year would have been better) For what I know if you've had this once it does not necessarily means that you will have it again, you will have the same chances as if it was your first pregnancy, and actually this chances are very small. The tests just want to make sure that no hormones are still in your body because that could be a real problem that can develop into cancer. Good luck and be patient, I know this is not the best advice right now, this disease can be pretty scary, so its better to be perfectly sure you are allright.

Lia.

--- Amanda LeCureux <anonymous@obgyn.net> wrote: > In mid July I was 10 weeks along in my pregnancy and
> began lightly
> spotting. I went to my doctor and found out I was
> beginning to
> miscarry, he scheduled a D&C for the next day. At
> my follow up visit he
> told me the pathologist found a tumor along with the
> fetus. The doctor
> started taking my HCG count once a week. My first
> reading 2 weeks after
> the D&C was 181 my second (a week later) was 27, my
> third was 11 and my
> most recent one was 0. He told me it was a
> condition called Gestational
> Trophoblastic Disease. After doing hours of
> research on this disease, I
> am still confused. Why am I having to wait a year
> until my husband and
> I are able to try again? Is it because the tumor is
> more likely to come
> back during the first year following the D&C? Also,
> after a year of 0
> readings, are we to assume this disease just goes
> away or is it just
> lying dormant waiting for another pregnancy to
> attack? Please inform me
> better about this disease I now have.
> Thank you for your
> time,
> Amanda
>

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