Molar Pregnancy Is - Articles
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month
by
Holly
... ecognized as Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day. (Click here to visit the official site.) This day is a day to honor those babies lost by miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirth, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes. On this day at 7 pm around the world, candles are lit to remember those babies who have been lost. I plan o ...
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Scanxiety...Or Something Like That
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The Accidental Tourist
... k. Seems like the medical profession knows more about it, can treat it, and chemo might work on it. It is ironic you know.....17 years ago I did a few rounds of chemo for a molar pregnancy. Ever since then I swore that I would never do chemo again. Now, facing RCC, which is quite resistant to the one thing that I have personally been resistant ...
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Types Of Miscarriage
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Jennifer
... place. At this point the woman will have to have surgery because an ectopic pregnancy can be life threatening if not removed as it can cause the fallopian tube to rupture. A molar pregnancy is a very rare condition that occurs when the placenta implants and begins to grow cysts. Sometimes a baby will begin to develop but will be unable to survive ...
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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - Pick A Stage
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The Accidental Tourist
... an do this. I have made it through so many other things in my life...I can make it through this. I have done college....I have done unemployment....I did methotrexate for a molar pregnancy.....I can do cancer.) The stages and the feelings are different for everyone. There is no right way to do grief. You just allow yourself to feel the emotion ...
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Officially negative
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Polly Gamwich
... , a year of it. (Seriously, you'd be hard pressed to find a woman who is trying to conceive that would willingly wait a year to attempt pregnancy - ok, unless she had faced a molar pregnancy but in that case she risks getting cancer if she tries before a year is up.)For the last 9 days I've been asking God "why?" ... I have been battling with the r ...
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Too Tired for a Cookie....
by
The Accidental Tourist
... he hospital's Internal Medicine clinic the first week of January. I like the hospital that I am going through - Aultman Hospital - I went through them years ago when I had a molar pregnancy and had to be on methotrexate chemo. It is a teaching hospital - and my doctor right now is a first year resident - but he seems very competent. Typically, w ...
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PET Scan Time
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The Accidental Tourist
... rettes are the last thing my lungs need right now. I haven't been sick in a long time - with the exception of the cancer. After my brief dance with methotrexate following a molar pregnancy back in 1991, it seemed I would come down sick at least a few times a year with bronchitis. At first the episodes were just terrible - fevers near 104 degrees ...
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Molar Update
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Megan F.
... she's a lot less irritable. She still seems pretty tired, though. Just not quite like herself. I haven't given her any meds today and am hoping we're over the hump on the molars.
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2 Year Molars
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Megan F.
A's gettin' 'em. Ugh. Last night was a nightmare. Up from 2 until 5 with a faucet nose and sporadic screaming. I slept in the bed with her (snoring like an old man) from 5 until about 8. We're both beat. W's beat too. He was in there from 3 to 5 - he said she only slept about 15 minutes that whole time. I guess in my sleepy state I didn't r ...
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"Are you joking?"
by
Helene
... er nurse call me and say "you need to come in for an ultrasound", which concerned me because I couldn't be that far along and I was starting to wonder if she was suspecting a molar pregnancy. But I remained hopeful and went in the next day for my ultrasound...my OB couldn't see much on her ultrasound machine so she sent me to radiology. The u/s tec ...
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