I estimate that I became pregnant between
july 22 - july 26. My estimated due date
is april 17th/18th 2006. This is the
beginning of my 6th week of pregnancy.
This past sunday I had a spotting incident
after straining during a bowel movement.
Based on my history my doctor went ahead
and saw me for a check-up to make sure I
wasn't at the beginning stages of
miscarriage. While doing a sonogram she
discovered that I have two cysts.
This freaked me out when she said this.
She called them cysts of pregancy and said
they are normal, that they sustain the
pregnancy. When I got home I did research
to assure myself.
Every month during her cycle a woman's
ovary produces a cyst. What happens is
the ovary makes "follicles." within these
follicles is the egg. The eggs matures.
When it is mature it then breaks through
the follicles and on down into the
fallopian tube. The follicle sac left
behind from the egg then becomes a corpus
luteal cyst.
If the egg is not fertilized the cyst gets
reabsorbed into the ovary. If the egg is
fertilized then the cyst remains,
producing progesterone to support the
pregnancy. The pregnancy cyst then
usually disappears between 12 - 16 weeks,
when the placenta is formed and takes over
the job of making the progesterone.
My question is I have two of them on my
left ovary (the overy that released the
egg). Based on what I have read, does
this mean that two eggs were released?????
During the sonogram we only saw one
gestational sac with what looked like the
beginning of a yolk sac forming inside.
The doctor had a hard time finding my
uterus on the sonogram, probably because
mine tips way back. Is it possible that
there are two gestational sacs floating
around in there, and she just didn't see
the other one?
When I spotted I didn't notice anything
that would indicate a possible egg that
was discharged. I suppose it could also
be possible that two eggs were released,
but only one was fertilized while the
other wasn't and got discharged?
I know probably only time will tell if
there are indeed fraternal twins in there,
but I am anxious to know why there are two
cysts, if indeed two eggs were released.
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teach486
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 276 Location: US
Update Posted: 08-30-05 10:15am
Ok..I had that spotting incident, and I
had to go back to the doc again yesterday
for a follow-up. They did another
sonogram. This time she tells me that she
isn't so sure one of the cysts isn't just
a regular cyst.
I have to go back again in another 8 weeks
because she wants to monitor the cysts.
If they are pregnancy cysts they will be
absorbed. If that one is a regular cyst,
it will remain and have to be monitored.
The upside to this is that I will have
more ultrasounds/sonograms than normal, so
I will be able to see the baby more often.
During yesterday's sonogram I got to see
the heart and heartbeat at 126 beats per
minutes. So far everything seems to be
developing normally. There seems to be
only one baby developing.
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