Hi tryingtoconceive, i am not sure how detailed are the tests u have gone through. Share with u. I also did some recurrent pregnancy tests called by gynae. All came back normal. I just not convinced because i also suspect i got some antibodies like wat u mentioned blocking my pregnancy to proceed. I read abt some natural cells killer n many women suffered from recurrent mc due to this NK cells a attacking our poor bbs. My gynae discourage me from testing more n insisted that i am normal. Then i look for Prof choolani. I drew abt 17 tubes of blood n from there found out i have protein S deficiency. My nk cells are ok. I start aspirin immediately to prepare my body. Amazingly i conceive very fast with help of aspirin. During my 5th wk pregnancy, i was almost at risk again things not looking good cos my body immune system is rejecting my bb again. I was put on Steriod n injecting heparin. Steriod saved my bb
Prof choolani did shared with me abt your gz gynae treatment. He is not positive abt this as well. He says the only way is to find out the problem in our body First. Sounds like your tcm is familiar n knows hw to treat. Since he has successful case, must be good. I skip tcm this pregnancy because too much injection n medical n constant blood tests. So i want to focus on the treatment. Plus i feel the tcm doesn't help me in my case so i dont want to stress by running here n there. I do heard dr loh uses aspirin for his patients. That is good. All these are medication that helps. I just want to share with u incase u are suffering in silence. Prof told me some ladies only go to him to check after many miscarriages n that is so painful. So currently u are doing your confinement? I am taking baby steps. Every scan is so nervous and my eyes are looking for baby heartbeat haha.... only when i hold baby in my hands, i will feel safe
i hope you can recover fast and well.
Hi mangoyoyo,
Yes, the detailed test I did in KK before included the protein S deficiency, and I had no issues in that area. Where is the Prof choolani that you consulted located? Is he in NUH hospital? I am also on daily 25 mg aspirin, as the gz professor advised me to do so before. I see, good that the Steroid saved your baby, but won't it cause you weight gain as well? The reason I asked is because I have family relative who was put on Steroid during her 2 pregnancies, and she never managed to lose the excessive weight gain even after she gave birth.
Well, the current tcm I am seeing, I find him by chance only, as I was very desperate to save my pregnancy (though did not succeed in the end, at least he tried.) He is recommended by my previous personal trainer (he was with Fitness First before, now go freelance already. Last year, his wife gave birth to a stillborn baby boy in the kitchen at home at 20 weeks pregnancy due to incompetent cervix. After that, has been seeing the tcm (Tai Choon Foh, in-house Chinese physician Dr Low Wei Meow), to help the wife strengthen the uterus, though so far no good news yet. They already have one 6 year old son.) My own tcm (ban choon chan, in Marine parade), is the bo chap type, when I told him about my pregnancy complications (bb not much growth in 1 week in what should be my 7th week of pregnancy, though still got heartbeat, so Dr Loh SF wanted me to try and save it. When I called the marine parade sinseh, he just replied me rudely that baby grows or not is decided by my gynaecologist, and not him, and refused to antai for me. However, as it was a life inside my body, I think that no harm seeing another tcm to antai, as if don't try, may blame myself for not doing anything if I lost it in the end, right?) I called the current tcm on the day that I was gonna miscarry, his wife answered my call and passed the phone to him. He is actually very sympathetic towards my case, he advised that 10 days after my miscarriage, to see him for review, as he needs to strengthen my uterus.
Yes, I finished my mini-confinement already last Saturday, as the miscarriage happened on June 13 (Sat). During the confinement, I called to my current tcm, and asked his wife what I can take to bu. She recommended me to boil the following confinement water: red dates, longan rou, bei qi and dang shen. When I saw the tcm for review this past Monday, he said that I need to take this bu confinement water for one extra week, instead of 2, as my body type is weak.
I actually saw him last Monday too, as I caught a cold during bath and shampoo on the night of my miscarriage, and then there was dry cough. My mom gave me Chinese capsules yin qiao but after I took it, got profuse sweating and felt body very weak afterwards. My cousin's wife (she got a cold and similar to what was happening to me during confinement before) told me that I should see the tcm sinseh, as something is very wrong since I was sweating a lot, and then the cough did not clear. I called the Saturday before, the tcm wife's mother-in-law answered my call, told me to leave down my contact details, and the wife would return back the call. The wife called shortly, told me to stop the yin qiao capsules, as it could cause profuse sweating and to see her husband the tcm dr that afternoon. However, by then, it was 5 p.m. and my husband was taking a nap. The medical hall closed at 6 p.m. on Sat, so even if I managed to wake my husband up, I was pretty sure that the time that we reached the medical hall, they are already closed. So the wife just advised me to see her husband the following Monday, as they are closed on Sundays. So last Monday I went, the tcm sinseh felt my pulse, said that I don't cough that much anymore, but then got profuse cold sweating and prescribed me 5 days of herbs (to be taken 3 times daily) to reduce my stress levels and to help me sleep better. My cough and cold has since resolved last Wed or so. This past Monday, the sinseh felt my pulse (both left and right) again, he said that the cold sweat situation is already resolved, and last Monday when I consulted him was absolutely terrible.