Thank you to everyone who replied. Please forgive me for not replying to each of you individually. The dr was very nice and we went over many things. The chromosome analysis came back showing that I was carrying two chromosonally healthy females. He has no answer as to why they died. He is repeating a battery of blood tests for clotting disorders and a few other things that are a little more unusual. He also did a full exam and did a swab for some sort of bacteria that can be present with no symptoms. He is waiting on a copy of the sonohystiogram (ultrasound with saline injected into the uterus to check structural issues) that was done last year. He may want to repeat it depending on what he sees. The other thing he did say was that this miscarriage may not be related to the others because I was so much further along. He said that it could have been the fact the they were monochorionic twins (identical twins) and they do have a much higher rate of miscarriage because of the complications of two babies in the same sac.
I asked him about all the other problems I have, the iritis, the bursitis, the tendinitis, the fibro, etc..and he said the problem is that I can test technically negative for Lupus for years even though I have it and until they can actually PROVE I have it, they won't treat it because I guess the treatment is pretty awful. The majority of my tests for the ANA antibodies and other autoimmune stuff comes back at the upper limits of normal.
I will see the rheumy dr next week to see what he has to say. The RE I was seeing called me this morning when I called to ask if I had a chromosome kerotyping done on both Will and I and we did and it was normal. The RE said that she doesn't have any answers either. She says at this point she doesn't believe that going through all the fertility hormones will improve my chances of carrying to term in the future.
So, I'm pretty much back to square one. Unless the rheumy dr can come up with something and he couldn't when I called him after I lost the twins, then there just isn't an answer. Will has said he doesn't even want to try again unless they can find something because he can't go through this anymore. I'm very upset about that and I'm not sure how to deal with it. Its all just too much right now. It very well may be time to face the fact that I may have to learn to be happy with Harley and accept that I may never have a child.
-------------------- Taking it one day at a time.....
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