Re: dose of teen hormones? - thoughts

[Guest guest]

Using hormones to turn a mature individual to teen status sounds very complicated. What would it do to those of us already past menopause? Going through that the first time was more than enough -thank you. What would it do to those still in their reproductive years? Would it jeopardize the ability to have children, or maybe increase ones fertility? Which poses another question, have any women had a successful pregnancy post liver transplant.

When I was first dx I was told to avoid hormones, ie, birth control pills, however, I did have my second child 4 years later with no problem. The more I know, the "curiouser" I get.

MizKit

[Guest guest]

A quick search of our literature site resulted in finding that the

first known posttransplantation pregnancy in a liver transplant

recipient was in 1978. I couldn't find a number for how many have

been reported to the National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry

(NTPR), which has studied the safety of pregnancy outcomes in solid-

organ transplant recipients since 1991. There are abstracts of the

NTPR annual reports in PubMed, but the only numbers I found were for

a study of 285 posttransplant kidney recipients who had a combined

434 pregnancies after their transplants. The NTPR reports kidney

recipients have had the most pregnancies followed by liver and heart

recipients.

Tim R

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> ... Would it jeopardize the ability to

> have children, or maybe increase ones fertility? Which poses

another question,

> have any women had a successful pregnancy post liver transplant.