Woke up on Sunday (11th may) morning with a bit of a tummy cramp, thinking it was my sciatica playing up or my PCOS or IBS I ignored it. By 10:30am the pain had got worse and thought it may have been trapped wind, got a hot water bottle and sat on the toilet. The pain seemed to ease off so helped at a local fete and thought the walk and fresh air would do me good. By 14:15 the pain was bad so decided to have a sleep.
I woke up about an hour and a half later unable to move with pain, unable to catch h my breathe from the pain and shooting pain in my right arm.
Edd my partner managed to sit me up on the bed but the pain was so bad a passed out.
Thinking it was my appendix we rushed to arrowe park hospital on the Wirral.
I can’t remember much else apart from the maximum about of morphine not working.
We were told that I had 2 positive pregnancy tests but the drs thought it was ectopic again due to the level of pain I was in and where the pain was. We didn’t know I was pregnant due to so much stress in the last few months I put my missed period down to stress and my PCOS.
Had the operation Monday (12th) morning around 9am, 3 hours later I was back on the ward and greeted by my amazing boyfriend edd’s face who has stuck with me and been my rock.
Turns out it was and I’m extremely lucky to be alive. I had an Cornual/Interstitial ectopic pregnancy. The placement of the pregnancy is very rare and it had ruptured, leading to a litre of blood in my uterus. The surgeon had only heard of this happening 3 times in his career and luckily for me he is one of the best in the country and key hole surgery.
Right fallopian tube has been removed and I’m very bruised and sore BUT I’m alive! My case only affects 1 in 200,000 women so trust it to happen to me. I have a long recovery to go but so thankful to be alive with all the support from Edd who’s my rock and looking after me as well as grieving the loss himself, my wonderful family and friends and not forgetting the amazing surgeon, a&e staff and all the wonderful ladies on ward 54 in arrowe park hospital on the Wirral. Still not out of the woods yet as depending on the blood tests on 19th I may still need a blood transfusion but fingers crossed.
I’m sharing my story to help raise awareness of the types of ectopic pregnancies and how serious they are.
I’ve now had a total of 10 miscarriages 2 of which being ectopic.
Just over a week after surgery I’m managing to move about more but more blood tests are needed for the Hcg levels. Twinging pain and very sleepy.