Totally Tubular

Apparently I had a tubular pregnancy.

My sweet Dr found it yesterday. Actually the awesome ultasound tech found it.
After having complications for a month including ultrasounds and pelvic exams with another doctor/ultrasound tech, I am hoping that it will be downhill from here!

As long as the kidney/liver tests that they are running on my blood come back ok, I will have an injection of Methorexate. Hopefully one injection will do the trick. If the injections fail to work, I will have to have surgery. I do not want to go that route.

So say a quick little prayer that I will be able to get the injection, that it will work in one shot and I will have no sickness from it.

Here is a snippet from Wikipedia (how did we live without it?) about Methotrexate:

"Methotrexate was originally used, as part of combination chemotherapy regimens, to treat many kinds of cancers. It is still the mainstay for the treatment of many neoplastic disorders including acute lymphoblastic leukemia.


Other uses
More recently it has come into use as a treatment for some autoimmune diseases, including ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis (see disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs). A parallel use with TNFα blockers as infliximab or etanercept has been shown to markedly improve symptoms.

Although not indicated for this use, methotrexate is also sometimes used (generally in combination with misoprostol) to terminate early pregnancies, particularly ectopic pregnancies. In the case of early missed miscarriage (particularly a blighted ovum), in which fetal demise has occurred but the body has not expelled the fetus, methotrexate may be used to help the body begin the miscarriage process. This is not a termination, because in this case, the fetus is no longer living.

It is also sometimes used to treat a rare condition called Behçet's disease where it is taken weekly, along with folic acid daily."