Hi all,
Sorry for the long post, I hope I can raise awareness from my post and help others.
Im 2 weeks into recovering from my Eptopic pregnancy which ruptured.
It all started at the beginning of February when we finally got a positive pregancy test. My husband and I got married in August and had been trying to concieve since then.
From the start I knew somthing was not right and I told my husband not to get to excited, the day after i took the test I began to bleed. This lasted around 4 days , I phoned my doctor who said to me that he suspected i had misscarried. We cried . I was sad but i was ready to except this and move on, I was just happy that we could concieve and together we could get through this.
I coutinued to have brown discharge and again started to bleed on and off. I continued to work and focused on this to get me through. This lasted 3 weeks until the Wednesday I knew somthing was not right. I had had niggling feeling on my left side for a few weeks but thought it was from the exercise classes I had been doing. This pain this evening was diffrent. I managed to get a out of hours doctors appoitment, the doctor sent me to A and E after doing no tests as he said there was nothing he could do.
I must not at this time I believed I had miscarried and had no knowledge of eptopic pregancy. Due to the fact I had been told not to read to much into my symptoms online. I kind of wish I had now.
My blood were tested in A and E where they confirmed I was still pregant my mum and myself where shocked and confused. I was sent up to the early pregancy unit where the gynocologist said my cervix where still closed. We where sent home and asked to return for a scan the next day. I went home to my husband very confused. My husband and myself returned the next day I still had the niggling pains in my left side and I was atill bleeding. I was given an internal and external scan where they told me my womb was empty, our hearts sank. They told me there was some shadowing behind my womb but they suspected it was my bowel, call me stupid but we took this as gospel I mean the nurses and doctors do this every day. They sent us on our way after a big speal about misscarriage and how sad it is.
I was asked to return 48hr later to check my hormone levels where going down. By now this was Saturday! My husband went off to work and my mum drove me to the hospital. Im not one to make a fuss of complain of pain but this morning my left side was really painful. I held it as my mum drove to the hospital. We went up to the unit where they took my bloods. I asked the nurse if i could see a doctor but she refused saying I needed to wait for my bloods and sudjested I went to get some breakfast. During this time the pain was unbearable I collapesed on the floor of a and e after my mum had sudjested we go for a walk. she pushed me in a wheelchair back to the early pregancy unit where they very quickly re scanned me and examined me . I cant even explain the pain I was in I couldn’t lay down all I wanted to do was be in the fetal position on the cold floor, I was so hot and thirsty but they couldnt give me fluid. They confirmed it was eptopic and I fainted on the floor. An emergency theatre was opened for me and I told my mum I was going to die.
My poor mum and husband who had to leave work waited for me during my time in theatre I lost half the blood in my body and my left tube. I remember waking up it was sureal. I never imagined this happening to me a healthy 27year old who had done everything right to concieve.
The recovery process has been hard. From the bloating after surgery to the sheer pain of loosing not only a tube but my baby.
I would have been 8 weeks and 5 days.
Each day gets easier and the love from my family and friends has been amazing but i cant help but be scared for my next pregancy if i do concieve again. Other than a wife the one thing i have always wanted to be is a mummy 