Thursday 26 January 2012

The to and the fro

After a molar pregnancy, you have to have your levels of HcG monitored to ensure that they fall to 0. If they don't fall to 0, this can mean there is tissue remaining in your body which is still producing the hormone and it shouldn't.

As this is such a rare condition there are only three centres in the country dealing with the monitoring. It's not done at your local hospital so the process is supposed to be that once your hospital thinks that's what you have, they check your histology/pathology, and then send the, er, samples, on to the centre for further checking, confirmation and follow up.

Charing Cross then take over your monitoring and post you out vials which you take to your GP who take your blood which you then post back to CX. They then analyse your blood for HCG and you can call and find out what you levels are. Your levels have to go down and if they don't, I believe you're then admitted to CX to start chemo.

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