Bit pissed off now! Just received my letter from the consultant, regarding my repeat lupus test. In the emails I quite clearly asked why it was positive, then negative, could it have been positive at the time, then become negative? The consultant was quite sure (at the 6 week appointment) that the lupus anticoagulant was a factor in Tamsin's death, and dismissed the views of the surgeon that the true knot, and nuchal cord, could have been a factor, as she had a 'positive test', which was a better thing to go by.
She has not answered my questions at all. She simply said that a "lupus anticoagulant test can be falsely positive, which is why you have to have 2 positive results before the diagnosis of a positive lupus anticoagulant is made".
Now I understand that tests can be negative. But from what I'd read, I understand that blood gets stickier during pregnancy, and as immediately after Tamsin's death it was positive, I specifically wanted to know if it was a transient thing. She has not answered this. Nor did she give any other revised views on the cause of death.
She has recommended that I take Aspirin in a future pregnancy, to prevent a small baby (Tamsin was 5lb and died at around 36+5, so not excessively small imho).
I'm just so bloody confused. How hard would it have been to answer the specific questions, not just a generalised, non-committal reply?