Ectopic pregnancy last week, just need some advice

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Hi, I’m just on here to ask for advice, or if anyone has experienced the same thing as me. The hospital never gave me a lot of information

I started spotting at 6 weeks pregnant and was referred to epau, by this time I had been spotting for 4 days.I had a scan which showed my uterus was empty but they could see something around 1.4cm on my right side. My bloods showed a hcg level of 106 and progesterone level of 35. I was asked to come back in 48 hours for more bloods. These next set of bloods showed that my hcg levels had dropped down to 15. I then had to go back 72 hours later for more bloods. The third set of bloods my hcg levels were 14.1. By this time I had been spotting for a week. I wasn’t having any intense pain and apart from the shock of what happened I was ok. The nurse told me to take a home pregnancy test in a week and if it still came back positive I needed to come back.

Today a week after my initial first scan I have now started bleeding bright red. I’m not in any intense pain just feels like period cramps. But this isn’t really like period flow, it’s constant but not clotty. Is this normal or to be expected? Have my levels gone to zero and my period started or is my body just expelling what is left?

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Hi kylie

I had bright red blood like this too when I thought I was having a miscarriage. A nurse told me that it was normal for the end of a miscarriage.

I however ended up being diagnosed with an ectopic after 3 weeks of bleeding. So I’d say call up your epau just in case xx

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Hi nadine

Thank you for your reply. I’m sorry for your loss.

The epau said that it was an ectopic that should resolves itself as my hcg levels were dropping.

Just concerned about the bleeding. Because you read all these horror storie of women being rushed into surgery because of ruptures.

X

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Thanks Hun. Yeah it is scary, I was told they got mine just in time as it looked like it was about to rupture! My levels were going up and down for weeks and they were testing me every couple of days. Call them and push for another blood test. My consultant said he once had a lady rupture with hgc level of 7.

Don’t want you to worry but always best to play it safe xx