Hey sailing through same boat, please share what all you had to do for diagnosis did you go to the gync or physician? What are did they suggest or did please
A diagnosis of the covid, or the omphalocele? Covid we have tests that can be done at home here, or you can get a PCR test but they've limited those and you can only get them under specific circumstances and only in two places in the whole state now. The rapid antigen tests (Rats) are known for false negatives but with the blazing positives we have it's pretty obvious we've got covid. All I could take was panadol for the pain, and drink lots of water. They have antivirals here but only certain super high risk groups can get them, pregnancy doesn't count. As for the omphalocele, it was fairly obvious there was an abnormality at my routine ultrasound. There was a huge bulge in bub's abdomen. It wasn't a gastrochises because there was a film seen around the protruding organs. It's almost certainly an omphalocele, because the only other thing it could be is a developmental herniation, which apparently is rare to be seen but does happen, however isn't seen after the 10 week mark, so they have ruled that out as an option. There's a few other potential things, like cysts or tumours, but they are far less likely than omphalocele. So it was just the normal ultrasound, then the results are put into a report by radiologists, who then send the report to my general practice (family medicine doctor). They then sent a refferal to a specialist hospital where I'll get another scan and a proper appointment at 16 weeks to see what's actually going on hopefully and go from there. But in Australia, you don't see gynecologists or obstetricians or anything like that unless you're incredibly rich, or you've got a serious problem and you get a refferal for a specialist to deal with that problem. Normally, you just see a normal doctor. In a normal pregnancy (like previous), I would see an OBGYN maybe once during the pregnancy, otherwise I just see my normal doctor and then midwives in the third trimester.
Hey sailing through same boat, please share what all you had to do for diagnosis did you go to the gync or physician? What are did they suggest or did please
A diagnosis of the covid, or the omphalocele?
Covid we have tests that can be done at home here, or you can get a PCR test but they've limited those and you can only get them under specific circumstances and only in two places in the whole state now. The rapid antigen tests (Rats) are known for false negatives but with the blazing positives we have it's pretty obvious we've got covid. All I could take was panadol for the pain, and drink lots of water. They have antivirals here but only certain super high risk groups can get them, pregnancy doesn't count.
As for the omphalocele, it was fairly obvious there was an abnormality at my routine ultrasound. There was a huge bulge in bub's abdomen. It wasn't a gastrochises because there was a film seen around the protruding organs. It's almost certainly an omphalocele, because the only other thing it could be is a developmental herniation, which apparently is rare to be seen but does happen, however isn't seen after the 10 week mark, so they have ruled that out as an option. There's a few other potential things, like cysts or tumours, but they are far less likely than omphalocele. So it was just the normal ultrasound, then the results are put into a report by radiologists, who then send the report to my general practice (family medicine doctor). They then sent a refferal to a specialist hospital where I'll get another scan and a proper appointment at 16 weeks to see what's actually going on hopefully and go from there.
But in Australia, you don't see gynecologists or obstetricians or anything like that unless you're incredibly rich, or you've got a serious problem and you get a refferal for a specialist to deal with that problem. Normally, you just see a normal doctor. In a normal pregnancy (like previous), I would see an OBGYN maybe once during the pregnancy, otherwise I just see my normal doctor and then midwives in the third trimester.