Hi everyone
About two weeks ago I discovered I was pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy after about 5 weeks of bleeding, pain and feeling very out of sorts. I’ve had the mirena coil fitted since February 2018, so pregnancy was not my first thought, especially as I have endometriosis and assumed it was down to that. Four visits to the GP and nobody suggested a test, so I’m pretty devastated and anxious about the whole thing, it’s been really tough on my body and mental health!
I had methotrexate treatment 12 days ago and ended up back in hospital two days ago after having awful stabbing pain and feeling faint. I was kept in for two days but didn’t need further treatment or surgery and my hcg levels are dropping nicely (from 880 to 167 over the 12 days). I’m feeling terrible though, possibly even worse than last week! Totally wiped out and strange pains/tingling all over. They are going to try and remove the coil in the next couple of weeks as the strings are no longer visible.
I have a few questions:
1.) Does anybody else have experience of an ectopic/methotrexate treatment with the mirena coil? Did it make recovery harder, or when the coil was removed, did you have further symptoms and bleeding? I’m a bit worried about the effect the coil removal is going to have, even though it obviously needs to come out!
2.) Does anybody have any experience of an ectopic/methotrexate with endometriosis? I’d love to just hear some reassurance or advice about how the healing process might be different, or if there’s anything I should be doing!
3.) On my ultrasound scan yesterday, the ectopic was still very visible - possibly even bigger than my initial scan - I could actually see the bagel-shaped mass on my right ovary - is this normal, even with much lower hcg levels? Can that bagel shape stay there for a while until it reabsorbs? I was concerned at how big it looked but was reassured it was normal.
Sorry for such a long post, I’m struggling with all of this so any advice greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
L