I had an ectopic in June and had my right tube removed as the baby had a heartbeat. This month my husband and I started TTC again. I should have ovulated about 10 days ago and for a week now I have had very sore boobs. For the last few days I have had a ache on my left side, just like a dull twinge. Could it be my fallopian tube moving around? I know this sounds odd but apparently a left tube can pick up an egg from the right ovary - could that be what I am feeling? I know I tend to ovulate from the right side. I am a few days off before my period is due and am conscious that it could be another ectopic but it would be pretty early to be feeling one, am I right? I was 8 weeks when they found the last ectopic in my right tube and that was a routine scan because I had miscarried two months before and they were doing it for dating purposes. I didn’t have any pain or symptoms at 8 weeks so I am guessing it might be the tube?
Any advice from anyone who had experienced this would be most welcome. I am trying to put major concerns out of my head but one can’t help but wonder…
I don’t really know an answer to your post but just wanted to say I also had EP and my right tube removed in June I was also 8 weeks. This is our first month of ttc too. ! I’m feeling a twinge/dull type pain on my left side but kind of think it’s my mind playing tricks too, I don’t think you would feel symptoms of an ectopic before 4 weeks from what I’ve read. Good luck on your ttc journey xx
Hi girls I had ectopic in June and just started TTC too. I also notice a lot of pains which worries me but I think it’s more because of bad experience I pay attention to it. Probably I wouldn’t have noticed it before. I even booked appointment with private gynaecologist next week to get a scan done to check how everything healed.
Is there a way to tell which side I ovulate from? I worry that my left ovary is dominant where I have no tube and I won’t get pregnant.
It’s flipping annoying all this worrying, isn’t it?!?!
I know that I tend to ovulate from the right side as back in April my appendix burst and they sent me to gynae to get checked out first. They did a preg test which was negative but wanted to check I didn’t have a burst cist. They did a scan and could tell that I ovulated from the right a few days previously. Unbelievably it was from that ovulation that I became pregnant, they think the surge in hormones could have led my appendix to burst. I only found out I was pregnant a few weeks post surgery when I didn’t get my period which was quite a shock. I went on to miscarry about 3 weeks later - it might have been the drugs and anaesthetic from the surgery or it could have just been a natural miscarriage. I then got pregnant again after the MC but this time it was ectopic on my right side.
Needless to say I am also worried that my dominate ovary is now without a tube. I have been assured by quite a few doctors that my left tube will go and get an egg from the right but it still has me worrying. How stretchy and flexible are those things?
I hate all this thinking, obsessing, wishing…its exhausting. I am due in a few days but I am not hopeful. Two emergency abdominal surgeries in less that 3 months has me thinking it will take quite a bit longer for my body to work out what is going on and adapt.
So, chin up, its nice and sunny outside and lets cross our fingers for athletic fallopian tubes and active ovaries, a sentence I never thought I would write!
Sometimes I still don’t believe that it happened to me. :? Ashington I hope next week you will update us with good news that your af didn’t arrive and you’re pg. I just started my new cycle again but not hoping much as partner will be away with work next week.
Just want to say good luck to you all ttc-ing again. I hope so much that the twinges are the ‘right’ twinges and that you are all healthily pregnant before long. Such a difficult and scary journey for us but I hope very much it will end happily x
I just wanted to jump in to answer the worries about fallopian tubes picking up eggs from both ovaries. Generally, when a person has only one fallopian tube they are still able to get pregnant from an egg from the opposite ovary as an egg from one ovary can travel down the tube on the other side. The fallopian tubes are not attached to the ovaries and, at the point of ovulation, some very delicate structures called the fimbriae begin to move gently creating a slight vacuum to suck the egg toward the end of the tube it is nearest to (like lots of little fingers waving and drawing the egg towards it). So, if you have only one tube then there is only one set of receptors working and one set of fimbriae creating a vacuum and so the egg is much more likely to find its way to that tube, whichever ovary it is produced from. Conservative estimates suggest that an egg produced on the tubeless side manages to descend the remaining tube around 15 to 20% of the time.
It is totally natural to worry about these things after the trauma of an ectopic. All I can say is please try not to worry about which ovary is ovulating etc. As I explained above, your remaining tube can pick up the egg from either ovary and many, many women conceive naturally with only one tube.
Whilst it is natural to also worry about every twinge or pain, if you are ttc and find that you have any symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy, please do make sure that you seek medical advice to put your mind at ease. We have a list of common symptoms here - http://www.ectopic.org.uk/patients/symp … diagnosis/ but if you feel that anything seems “odd” or different, please do get it checked out.
Much love
Beth - Host 7 xx
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