Hi Susan,

 

Yes, since you actually HAVE cah, BOTH copies of your 21-oh gene have abnormalities; therefore, you had no choice but to pass on an abnormal gene to your daughter.  If the gene that she got from her dad was normal, she would be a carrier.  If the gene she got from her dad was abnormal, she would have CAH.  From what you’ve said (and using the law of averages), chances are she is just a carrier. 

 

One other thing you might want to keep in mind:  If your daughter’s future husband also ends up being a carrier---and they have a child with CAH---it is very possible that the child could be a salt-waster, even though you are not.  Siblings will usually have the same type of CAH, because they share the same parents.  But, this is not true of family members of different generations.  Since you and your future grandchild would not have the same set of parents, chances are good that he/she could end up with a different type of CAH than you.  This is a point that I think is often confusing. 

 

P. S.  Tesher, I realized after I put down my first post that you were asking about your child, not yourself.  Sorry I mistook who you meant, though the same would be true of anyone with CAH.  I also realized that I was assuming you were female, when you really didn’t say...sorry if I made the wrong assumption!