awaiting m/c testing results, help!

kthappy76

The nurse just e-mailed that they will be calling me w/results by 4 after the Dr. has reviewed them, and of course now I'm really worrying.  But I'm not even sure what to hope for... 

Is it better if there is something wrong or not?  This really blows.

itsmevkb

***TICKER WARNING***

 

 

 

You're right, it really does blow.  It's so hard because you really want answers but then you also have already had enough bad news that you don't want anymore.  I'll be honest, for me, I wanted the doctor to come back and tell me that there had been something wrong with my babies.  I don't think finding that out would have made me feel any better or worse about my losses, however, I would have perhaps felt better going forward knowing that my losses were due to random flukes of how the egg and sperm met and began dividing.  Instead, I was told that my babies were perfect leaving me to wonder about what happened - was there something my own body was doing to kill them?  Not knowing what happened has been very hard on me but I know that some women find comfort in finding out that their baby was chromosomally normal so I really just think it depends.

Whatever answers you get I hope it brings you some peace.

kthappy76

Thanks so much for your reply VKB.  I would have been 10 wks today too, and hope that all is going well with your pregnancy.  Did you have any RPL testing done?

mrs.gee

I'm so sorry for your loss.  I got results for both of my m/c's.  For the first, the chromosomes came back normal.  It was really unsatisfying, in a weird way.  For the second, there was a genetic mutation that meant my husband and I had to have our chromosomes tested to be sure we weren't carrying wacky chromosomes.  Ours came back fine, so that means the m/c was just a fluke.  I guess it's comforting in a way, but also really depressing to have bad luck twice in a row.  I hope you get some useful answers.

itsmevkb

I just want to tell you again how sorry I am for your loss.  Having been through it, I just hate to see anyone else have to do the same.

I've had three rounds of testing.  The first came after I developed a blood clot in my leg and I got all the clotting tests done.  One came back abnormal and when I went on to lose my next pregnancy we thought perhaps that was why.  Except that then after my first loss, because it was a second trimester loss, I had all the rpl testing done and was retested for all the clotting disorders and everything came back normal.  So, they tested the one that had been abnormal yet again and it came back normal again so that wasn't my issue.  I did find out that I have one copy of the MTHFR gene mutation but no-one thinks that caused my  miscarriages.

So, after I got pregnant again and miscarried again, and the baby was determined to be a chromosomally normal, I pursued immune testing.  My natural killer cells came back elevated and then when retested were normal.  Once I got pregnant again my doctor has been retesting my natural killer cells every week and sure enough, once I was pregnant they became elevated.  I've been receiving intralipids to try and get them back to normal and am just praying that it's working.

I hope you get some answers and that you have success again very soon.  Infertility is bad enough, you don't need losses to go along with that.