I am 35 and lost my hopes and dream last week on April 27, 2006. I am still searching for answers. Here is my story.
I have three wonderful boys. I remarried my DH two years ago in March. For our one year anniversary I had a tubal reversal, then he had a vas, reversal a month later in April. We were ready to start our baby journey. After the required waiting to heal time we actively tried to have our dear baby. After 10 months of being unsuccessful we went to see an infertility specialist. I just turned 35 and was getting concerned about my age factor. We ran the test and it turned out my ovaries were getting old, and my egg supply was running low. I also had a HSG test, which ran dye through my tubes, I was very worried about that test because I am very allergic to the iodine that is used. But my Dr. is very good and gave me everything I needed to not react. The test revealed my left tube was blocked. So the journey was getting a bit more complicated. I actually started looking into adoption at that point. I talked with the Dr., and decided we would give IUI along with taking injectibles on my next cycle. Well, my next cycle didn’t come because I was pregnant! Instead I started getting Hcg levels taking. I was 11 dpo and my first test level was 32. Not bad. 3 days later 75, so it doubled like it should. My nurse had me back the following Monday to make sure my levels went over 100, 3 days later 316! Going up great. Only upsetting thing was the lab tech there looked at my numbers from Friday and said to me, “Oh it looks ectopic, when you pass the tissue just bring it in so we can send it off to pathology.” I was stunned and then she took my blood and sent it off and it had gone way up. So I worried all day it seemed for nothing. 3days later Thursday, April 27 after lunch got really bad pains in my side. I wasn’t too worried because I have a couple of hernias and an ulcer and thought my lunch was going through my belly right. Anyway my DH didn’t like the way I looked and brought me to the ER. They made me wait for almost 2 hours before I could see the DR. They knew I was pregnant, so the did another blood test my Hcg was now 862. So I thought I was in good shape. I am now 4 weeks and 5 days pregnant, my numbers are looking great. They take me up for ultrasound and couldn’t really see anything, but I was told my pregnancy wouldn’t show up on screen until my levels was above 1500 anyway. They scanned me for 45-60 minutes. In my right tube there was something that looked like a cyst with some fluid around it. They called in the OB doc on call.
I send my husband to go get the boys settled. 10 minutes after he leaves I am told they need to do a laprascopy. I asked them if my pregnancy was inutero would this affect it. I was assured, no. I call my husband back, he is surprised, I am stunned.
The thing that bothers me most is I told them who my doctor was that was already following me to make sure I wasn’t having E.P, because I was a higher risk because of my tubal reversal. I was due to have an ultrasound on Tuesday May 2, when the sac would be visible.
Well I get prepped for surgery and the anthesiologist tells me I am having surgery to remove EP. I shake my head no, the Dr is looking to see what is there.
I wake up and I am told it was EP, and that he saved my tube. I am shocked because he told me if it was EP he would have to remove my tube and ovary and that I wouldn’t have children with that tube, which is my only good tube.
I go home Saturday. Sunday I run a fever and call his office, they ask me if I am a patient there, I explain to them their dr did my surgery through the e.r. and I need to follow up with him post op. They tell me go back to the er and won’t let me see him.
I call me dr, the one who is trying to help me concieve and he is floored. He tells me after I explained what happened that it didn’t sound right, it was too early to have EP present itself. Now he is following my case. I told him about my fever and he told me call them back and make the dr see me, I am his patient. I call them to make appointment for follow up, to get staples removed, they give me a hard time about that, finally give me appt., but not with this Dr.
My nurse calls me and tells me I need to get blood work to make sure Hcg levels are going down, and tells my to call Dr from ER, once again It takes me twisting their arm to get them to give my the orders for blood work.
I am concerned because I am still testing positive on HPT, which if they removed my baby, wouldn’t my HCG levels go down?
Needless to say I am mourning the loss of my baby that I will never get to know. But I have a very baby feeling that I lost my baby by a Dr who has a record of misdiagnosing women. Under his liscense info are two law suits. One women he treated with a hysterectomy, and then died because she really had cancer, And another law suit for killing a baby he was delivering by blunt trauma to the fetus during delivery. I don’t feel very safe in this man’s hands. And it is making it very difficult for me to deal with this loss, when there is a possiblilty that I was diagnosed.