Dr Update 8.12.14

I went to my regular OB yesterday for a check in and to get blood work done in advance of going to see the specialist next week. One thing I haven't mentioned yet is that I really like my OB, Lea Mahoney with West End Obgyn. She has been so kind to me and I trust her when I ask "if you were in my shoes, what would you do at this point?" She gave us her recommendation for a specialist which we went with (to be seen how that goes!).

Anyway, she has gotten in touch with the specialist to see what labs he would want to see initially, and has talked to him a bit about my history. From their preliminary discussion, he said that he suspects one of the clotting disorders is what has been affecting the pregnancies. We'll see if he's right when the labs come back next week.....but in the meantime, it got Jacob and I talking about how in a way we would kick ourselves if some simple blood tests would have been able to tell us what was wrong, and we could have saved this year of heartache. But, hindsight is 20/20, right? I really don't want to dwell on what we could have/ should have done any differently.

Here is the list of labs for those of you medically inclined:

AMH

Prolactin, TSH, TPO Antibodies

Lupus Anticoag, Anticardiolipin Ab, Type 2 anti-beta glycoprotein

Throws me back to my BME/ Biology days......glad those are behind me! :)