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Posted by Carrie Finney --Previous Message--
on 2/23/2004, 2:00 pm, in reply to "Trisomy 22 Mosaic"
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: Hello to the members,
: I don't know if I'm in the right place
: and if I'm not perhaps someone can
: point me in the right direction. I
: just found found this site from a
: search I did on Trisomy 22.
: I recently miscarried exactly a month
: from today and ironically I received an
: email today from my OBGYN telling me
: about the genetic testing he did on our
: embryo/baby.
: Turns out there was a definite
: abnormality with my pregnancy. His
: emaail: "There was an extra
: chromosome #22 which is called
: autosomal trisomy (this is not much
: different than trisomy #21 which is
: "Downs syndrome"
. However
: trisomy #22 is not compatible with any
: viability and is always miscarried.
: This is the reason the pregnancy
: stopped growing". I guess that's
: why I miscarried according to my
: doctor.
: I'm just trying to get some clarity on
: this from others who have experienced
: the same. Of course I will be talking
: to my doctor tomorrow and will get his
: instructions on what to do next but
: reading other's experience may help in
: what questions to ask, etc.
: For instance there are no chromosome
: defects in my family or my husband but
: yet we produced a embryo/baby wtih an
: extra chromosome 22, does this mean we
: should get tested prior to us trying to
: conceive again? Again, just for
: experience purposes. I'm not asking
: for medical advice here.
: This is all new to me and I'm extremly
: sacred and wonder if I should even try
: to conceive again knowing we had a
: chromosome defect with our first
: pregnancy.
: Thank you and hoping I'll hear from
: someone.
: Yvonne
:
Hello Yvonne. I do think that you and your husband should get tested if you doctor did not tell you that. My husband and I got tested and neither one of us carry this extra chromosone. My son is now 2 years old and has many problems associated with Mosaic Trisomy 22. That means he doesn't have the full blown Trisomy 22. He has just gone under open heart Surgery Sept. 2003 to correct his very large ASD which is associated with the genetic disorder. He also is behind in speech and took a lot of physical therapy to get him to walk and hold his head up. But, there is hope and miracles do happen. He walks and is a hand full now. We just have to work on his speech. My husband and I have been told by a genetists(SP) that our son was a flook. We could have a normal baby next. Please feel free to e-mail me if you need and I'm sorry to hear about your miscarriage.
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