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Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss
Spring78
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We have an answer
Spring78
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My RE just called me at home (didn't want to give me potentially emotion inducing news at work -- so sweet & thoughtful) with the pathology results from my MMC/ D&C nearly two weeks ago. We actually have an answer. Trisomy 21. She said many Trisomy 21 embryos just have malformations that are simply incompatible with life -- more severe versions of the cardiac problems that Downs babies often have, for example. She also told me it was a girl. That part is sort of hitting me pretty hard.
On the plus side, it had nothing to do with my ability to carry a pregnancy. But it was due to my dusty old eggs, so that kinda sucks. Positive: it was a spontaneous error, not anything inherent in our DNA. Negative: all my frosties are from 35 year old eggs and the same error could have spontaneously occurred in any one of them.
RE thinking it is not worth the risk of thawing, testing, refreezing & rethawing the frosties, though, as we would likely lose some in the process. It would not do much good to know we had a healthy embryo if we killed it to test it.
So much to think about and process. But I guess it is good to have an answer. I had pretty much prepared myself for not getting an answer...
On the plus side, it had nothing to do with my ability to carry a pregnancy. But it was due to my dusty old eggs, so that kinda sucks. Positive: it was a spontaneous error, not anything inherent in our DNA. Negative: all my frosties are from 35 year old eggs and the same error could have spontaneously occurred in any one of them.
RE thinking it is not worth the risk of thawing, testing, refreezing & rethawing the frosties, though, as we would likely lose some in the process. It would not do much good to know we had a healthy embryo if we killed it to test it.
So much to think about and process. But I guess it is good to have an answer. I had pretty much prepared myself for not getting an answer...
*************Siggy Warning. Loss mentioned.************
Me: 36, DH:37
Married 4/2010, TTC since 7/2011
Dx: Officially Unexplained (I have Polycystic Ovaries diagnosed via ultrasound, but few classic PCOS symptoms, he has mild MF issues. So... not issue free, but nothing so severe as to explain IF)
I also deal with post-surgical Hypothyroidism following Thyroid Cancer in 2009, but under control with Levothyroxine
4 months Clomid (thinned lining) and 10 months Letrozole (every indication that I responded perfectly)
6 failed IUIs in 2013, 3 with trigger
IVF #1 in March 2014
ER 3/21/14, 31R/21F, 12 frosties!
ET 3/26/14, 1 perfect blast transferred: BFN
FET#1 5/28/14, 2 "beautiful" early blasts transferred. BFP!!
Beta #1 (6/11/14) 798; Beta #2 (6/18/14) 7,966.
1st u/s (6/25/14) showed 2 sacs, 1 empty & 1 with a beautiful little bean doing what it needs to do!
EDD 2/14/15, missed miscarriage, DX: Trisomy 21. D&C 8/1/14
FET#2 Transferred 3 embies, 2 looking pretty good, one not so much. BFN.
IVF#2 January 2015, tentative ER 1/23
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Re: We have an answer
*************Siggy Warning. Loss mentioned.************
Me: 36, DH:37
Married 4/2010, TTC since 7/2011
Dx: Officially Unexplained (I have Polycystic Ovaries diagnosed via ultrasound, but few classic PCOS symptoms, he has mild MF issues. So... not issue free, but nothing so severe as to explain IF)
I also deal with post-surgical Hypothyroidism following Thyroid Cancer in 2009, but under control with Levothyroxine
4 months Clomid (thinned lining) and 10 months Letrozole (every indication that I responded perfectly)
6 failed IUIs in 2013, 3 with trigger
IVF #1 in March 2014
ER 3/21/14, 31R/21F, 12 frosties!
ET 3/26/14, 1 perfect blast transferred: BFN
FET#1 5/28/14, 2 "beautiful" early blasts transferred. BFP!!
Beta #1 (6/11/14) 798; Beta #2 (6/18/14) 7,966.
1st u/s (6/25/14) showed 2 sacs, 1 empty & 1 with a beautiful little bean doing what it needs to do!
EDD 2/14/15, missed miscarriage, DX: Trisomy 21. D&C 8/1/14
FET#2 Transferred 3 embies, 2 looking pretty good, one not so much. BFN.
IVF#2 January 2015, tentative ER 1/23
*** siggy warning *** Purduepat- seriously? Keep those insensitive comments to yourself. Your sister's fertility has nothing to do with other women's fertility. Comments like that are super annoying.
I would never tell someone else to hold their comments to "yourself" but clearly you feel above your own advice. I hope that my own experience and personal thoughts don't continue to "annoy you." Wow.