[LMB] there's a word for it

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patricia A. Swan wrote:

Preeclampsia:

> though it can happen to some woman no matter how good their
> pre-natal care.

Some people have a predisposition to it.  I'm one of them.  I
only once attempted to carry a pregnancy full term (with
disastrous results) but my bp starts going up in the first
trimester.  And also when I take hormonal birth control.  This is
why I got a tubal ligation.

> It's also one of the risk factors for end-stage renal disease
> in women.  Azalais mentioned that a lot of the women who she
> sees at the transplant center she works at need a kidney
> transplant because they kept trying to have babies even when it
> was killing them and their kidneys.

Yep.  It absolutely shuts your kidneys down for the duration.  I
know that not just because of our patient population but because
I've hit the stage where your kidneys go down for the count.
They came back, thank G-d, but if my BP ever went up again (which
it doesn't, as long as I stay far away from extra estrogen) I
might be in trouble.

~malfoy
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