anticardiolipin antibodies

Posted By B. Weeks on February 12, 1998 at 19:01:45:









I am a 38 year old female, 5'4", 175 lbs.  1 1/2 years ago I suffered a TIA with tingling and numbness on the right side of my body and some slurred speech.  At first the doctor thought it was related to stress because my husband has a genetic disease and I worry about the children.  However, after bloodwork revealed an increase in anticardiolipin antibodies he placed me on Coumadin.  My doctor is the cardiologist who saw me at the hospital.  I still have occassional TIA symptoms, however, after a stress test, MRI, MRA, and Cat scans we have been unable to see any indication of the TIA.  MY questions:  Do TIA's always show up on a scan? and should I continue to see a cardiologist for my coumadin monitoring (every 2 weeks) or see a hemotologist.  I should also mention that my first baby died at almost 5 months and had to be taken by DNC.  My cardiologists suggested the problem was probably from the antibody disorder.  I tested negative for Lupus and APLS.