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Dawn - OH sweetie, I am so, so very sorry to hear this news. Please know that I keep you, DH and your little girl angel in my prayers. The thought of having to wait 6 more months is dreadful, I know and I'm just so very sorry.
I came to the board today to post a question about molar pregnancy and I saw your post and really could just not believe my eyes. I do NOT want to take over or steal your post, but since I saw you posted about a subject I was coming to ask about, I might just put down in this post what I just heard from my OB, hope this is OK? Maybe we can get some more input this way.
MY OB just called and she had the preliminary pathology report on the tissue that was removed after my SECOND D & C (I started bleeding heavily and had severe pain, one week after the D & C to remove our deceased baby, so I had a second D & C and more tissue was removed and sent for testing). She told me that viable cells were present and that testing could be done. The report stated that some of the cells looked "funny" and that the remaining tissue would be sent for further testing. She then said to me she was going to quote from the report that "although highly doubtful, the possibility of a molar pregnancy needs to be ruled out". So, this is what the report said. I asked about what a molar was, etc. and she was explaining it but I wasn't understanding. She told me it is highly treatable and that IF it was molar, then hcg levels must be tested until they are at zero. She also said it could mean waiting six months to try to conceive again, but this was only IF it was molar. She mentioned the "cancer" side of it, but I still do not understand if cancer cells cause a molar or if a molar causes cancer???? I'm really in the dark about it. But, she did say the cancer that can be found after a molar is called something like "gestational tripleblastomic disease"? I'm not sure I got it right, I was scribbling it all down very fast.
What I don't understand is that the information I found on a molar pregnancy says that instead of a fetus, just a mass of tissue will form and grow. Well, we for sure saw a heartbeat on the first ultrasound and the 2nd ultrasound, although no heartbeat was present, definitely showed the form of a tiny fetus, complete with arm and leg buds and a very visible head. So, that gives me a shot of hope that my issue is not a molar, or could I have had a normally developing fetus AND a molar at the same time?????? I just don't know, I wish I could have thought quick enough to ask my OB all this stuff! But, it was only after I hung up that all the questions came to me.
Can anybody else shed some light for Dawn and I? We'd appreciate it, I know!!
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