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writes:I'm asking this because my Ob/Gyn didn't explain it very well to me. I had an ectopic pregnancy with one fertilized egg and another egg that had fertilized and ended up embedding into my uterus. So I was suppose to have twins, but only one egg made it. I don't understand how one could get stuck in the fallopian tube and the other just go on through to the uterous. She made it sound like the egg that made it came from the opposite fallopian tube as the one that didn't... but I don't understand that... I thought that twins where when the egg split, not because two decided to come at ovulation, is that even possible? And if one fallopian tube is inflamed (or however she put it) doesn't that mean the other one is too?, I mean the hormones that caused it can't affect one and not the other, right? Please help me with this I don't understand how this happened! Reply to this Question
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reader, a_seidner06 +, writes (8 February 2009):
 i looked up ectopic Pregnancy up on google as which you might have done. But as i was reading on and it said this, "An ectopic pregnancy results from a fertilized egg's inability to work its way quickly enough down the fallopian tube into the uterus. An infection or inflammation of the tube might have partially or entirely blocked it. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can be caused by gonorrhea or chlamydia, is a common cause of blockage of the fallopian tube.
Endometriosis (when cells from the lining of the uterus implant and grow elsewhere in the body) or scar tissue from previous abdominal or fallopian surgeries can also cause blockages. More rarely, birth defects or abnormal growths can alter the shape of the tube and disrupt the egg's progress."
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reader, anna*belle  +, writes (8 February 2009):
 Hi, my knowledge about pregnancies is not very large, but i know this, sorry about the wording; when your cycle begins there is not only one egg that is put "out there", normally there will be about 5-10 I guess because usually most of them will be non-productive. In this cycle you have been so lucky (or not?) to have 2 usable eggs. And yes it is possible to have to fertile eggs at the time. There are 2 kinds of twins; one kind is where two eggs (your situation) is fertilized, in this case the twins will not look alike, the other kind is the "identical twins", this is when an egg is not completely intact and will therefore divide and make 2 zygotes with the same genetics.
Why one of the eggs got stuck in the fallopian tube I can't say, sorry. Hope this helps a little, good luck with the pregnancy.
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