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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

High Risk is High Medicine

So, last Friday, I received a phone call reporting that I tested positive on an APA blood-phospholipid antibodies test. Apparently, I have a predisposition to blood clotting? - which may cause miscarriage if there is a clot - specifically around the placenta. If left untreated, there is a 90 percent chance of miscarriage.
The treatment: a lovely combo of low-dose Asprin and Heprin injections, twice a day.
Add that to my progesterone suppositories and Metformin pills - also twice a day, my prescription strength prenatal pill with DHA, and 2 Tums - for calcium carbonate and it takes me a good thirty minutes to get through my drug routine!

Research shows that by doing all this ... I'm up to a 71 percent chance of carrying to full term, with a healthy baby. Unfortunately, I have 7 more months of injections and my right thigh is starting to appear like it belongs to a battered woman.


1 comment:

Laura said...

OH GEEEZZZZZ!!!! Seriously Sherry, I feel so sorry for you! Those injections looks scary. It's a good thing you're so tough. I hope everything keeps going along well.

P.S.- I had heard about sex making you deliver sooner. I thought it was the act itself but today I read it is something in sperm. Wierd huh? Anyways, I've got to figure out something! The discomfort of this last month is killing me!