My experience was very good, my GP immediately gave me all the information necessary to get, for the primark test, the blood test associated with a scan. I didn't know about it because I wasn't sure exactly what was available. I knew about the amniocentesis and all that, but I suspected that there must be other options.
So I was quite happy to hear that there was this very early test that can tell you about Down's syndrome and other common problems. So immediately I, you know, applied for that. I called myself. There was a bit of a delay, because this was in summer, early summer - very hot weather. And they send you the tubes to get the blood sample taken.
So I got the blood sample, sent it in the post, and it apparently didn't get there, or it took three days or something to get there, and they told me, “Sorry, but this sample is not useful any more, it is too hot”. So I had about one or two days limit to send the sample right in the time when it had to be tested, because it's a very short period when you have to do this test.
So, but anyway, it got there. We were travelling to my country, to Ecuador, in the few days after that, so I had the scan, I think, just the first or second day of my thirteenth week, which was just about when it had to be taken, because we were leaving two days later.
So by the time we left I knew the results from the blood test, but not, I knew the results from the scan, which was quite good, they told me that the risks were much lower than expected for my age, but I didn't know the results from the blood test because it was not ready yet.
But when we came back we received the news that, together, the two tests together gave a risk of one in fifty thousand, so that was kind of, you know, fantastic, because then basically there was no need to go for any further tests. |
