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Thursday, December 29, 2005

First it's APA, now it's IVIg!? WTF?

Okay, it was bad enough that my APA's tested high enough that I'm doomed to two shots of heparin a day, but hell I can top that. I just got word (just today) that my NK Assay (Natural Killer Cells Assay) came in and I'm "not normal". What does that mean? Well, on a scale of 0 to 5, 0 being normal, and 5 being the worst Dr. Z has ever seen, I am a "1".

What the fuck?

So I've done some very meager IVIg research and know that this means I have to get an injection of immunoglobulins...but damn, can't I just do this myself and skip the ever-so-expensive fancy assed clinical setting with the IV pump? This is just insane. The cost for IVIg here in trendy Los Gatos is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2000. But since IVIg is administered in units based on one's weight I am surely doomed. I weigh 162 most days, more than many women as I'm tall (5'10"), so I'm sure that they'll insist on some extra IVIG just because of that. OMFG.

There is no end in sight to this hell.

Excellent reading on IVIg here. Essentially: if you're +NKa, you have a 4% chance of conceiving without IVIg, and a 50-55% change of conceiving with IVIg. I'm sold.

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