Apologies for a very long story…
found out I was pregnant on Monday after taking the morning after pill 5.5 weeks prior. I’m 28 and me and husband wanted to wait another year before thinking about having a baby but condom broke. I had constant bleeding/brown discharge for all 5.5 weeks but assumed this was due to the morning after pill. As my breasts had become sore and no sign of a proper period I decided to take a pregnancy test on Monday, 3 in fact - all positive. I then got worried about the bleeding, so went to my gp on Tuesday morning who sent me to hospital. At hospital they confrimed there was no pregnancy in my womb, did a blood test and diagnosed me with ‘pregnancy of unknown location’ and I was told that it could either be an ongoing miscarriage or en ectopic pregnancy (I hadn’t even heard that before and had no idea what it was). I was asked to come back on Thursday for another blood test to see if hcg levels had gone up or down but was told to go straight to a&e if I stared feeling unwell. On Wednesday I started having some pains in my stomach and my bleeding went from brown watery discharge to fresh blood. I called 111 who advised me to go to A&E. Once there everything went really fast. I was scanned and examined by multiple doctors, I was told they could see some blood in my belly and that they wanted to do a laparoscopic to check what was going on. Right before the surgery another doctor wanted to do another scan, and I was told they could now see a swelling on my right tube. I was told that there was a chance they would remove the whole tube depending on what they found, as long as the other one was healthy. If not they would try to save the affected tube. When I woke up from surgery there was no doctor around who could tell me what had happened but a nurse on my ward could see in my papers that they had removed the right tube. The next morning, me still being groggy, in pain, overwhelmed and confused a doctor I had seen the previous night came to my bed and told me that they had taken the right tube out due to suspected ectopic but that they had seen that my left tube was in a bad nick as well, due to suspected endometriosis (which I never suspected to have), and that I might struggle to conceive naturally. It was a shock and I didn’t really ask any questions, he gave me my papers and left.
I got discharged on Thursday and on Friday things started to sink in. I felt angry and confused to why they had taken the whole tube when my left on is damaged. I called the hospital who gave me an appointment in 10 days once the results are in from whatever they took out, and talk about thto other findings. I didn’t want to wait 10 days so went to hospital yesterday and demanded to speak to a doctor. Got to speak to a doctor who hadn’t been involved in my case and could only read my papers but he went through them with me and made some sense of it. He ensured me that they wouldn’t have taken it out if it wouldn’t have been necessary.
I appreciate that, and I’m sure there’s a reason but at the moment, until I get all the answers in 10 days I just feel like someone has stolen my future and my organs without telling me why.
I don’t even know what I want to get out from writing everything here. Maybe just a rant of anger or perhaps someone else has experienced the same thing…
Any answers would be appreciated.
Sorry fo longest message ever.
Sara x