My story, ectopic treated with MTX

Re-posting my story to here :slight_smile:


We had been trying to conceive for 8 months when I though that I have missed my period and did a positive test. We were both quite excited. Few days before that, I was bleeding a bit, but thought it was just a fake period. The bleeding was also accompanied with a stabbing pain on the left side for one hour and gone completely after that. The same evening, after that positive test, I had similar pain again, accompanied with dark brown bleeding, which was not much, though. Then we already got an idea that maybe everything is not quite right… That was on Saturday 17.2

The pain went away, but then on Monday I got a similar pain again and bleeding accompanied with fever. I had read about ectopic pregnancies in the internet and was quite afraid that it would be something like that. I went to see the nurse at work and she sent me to see a doctor in the evening. The doctor examined me and said it is probably a miscarriage. He told me to come back in the morning to take some blood tests and see him. The next day, on Tuesday, he examined me again, and figured out that it is probably an infection and the bleeding has probably led to a miscarriage. He gave me a hard-core antibiotics presciption.

I left the doc’s office and went to a pharmacy. The doctor called me when I was there and told that it would be better if I would go to the hospital to be checked there properly in case I would still be pregnant. I went there and the doctor told me that my HGC was 156, which would be pretty normal for such an early preganancy. She could not see anything with an ultra sound, but said that the lining of the womb was thinner than usually and there was some liquid in my stomach. She said that it could be all normal, or then it could be an EP or miscarriage, and told me to come back next week and take new blood tests.

The next day after my appointment I bled quite a lot (almost like with a light period, but did not look like a normal period. I’ve never had a miscarriage, so I thought it looked like a miscarriage). I was silly enough to call the hospital and suggest that I’d maybe better cancel the appointment there since it seems that I have miscarried. Luckly, they said that it is the best for me to come anyway. The bleeding stopped for a while and continued with some light spotting.

On Tuesday 27th, when I had my appointment, I was prepared to hear the news about my miscarriage. I was going to fly to the US on Thursday and excited about my trip and seeing friends & doing some work there. I was pretty shocked to hear that my HGC had not gone down and the gynegologist concluded that it was an EP since she also saw some liquid in my stomach. They could not say where the EP was, but the gyne said that she saw some liquid coming from my right tube. That was a bit contradicting to the fact that all the pain had always been clearly in the left side.

They took me in the hospital and told me not to travel. I got a shot of MTX that afternoon. My fiancee was going to travel to UK that evening, but he cancelled his trip to be there with me. That support was really needed… I had already prepared myself mentally to a miscarraige, but the ectopic was truly a shock. I was just crying in the hospital and felt really miserable. The good thing was that they let me go home because I had adult company at home.

The night was horrible… I had a lot of pain. I did not know which way I could be in the bed and I felt like puking all the time. In the night I went to vomit and felt a lot better after that.

Emotionally the first two days were the worst. If my partner would not have taken it all so well, I think I would not have survived this well. He was open about what happened to our close friends and colleagues. I would have probably just wanted to keep it between us, but actually after listening to him, I noticed that sharing the pain really helped. Coming up with fake stories for the people who ask about infections etc would have just worsen the pain. First, I thought I could not tell anyone of what happened without bursting into tears. Now I have just told anyone who asked … I think it makes things easier.

The first week I was really tired. I could not walk up the stairs without getting really exhausted and felt like fainting. I had that fainting feeling actually for almost two weeks. I thought that I might work a bit at home, but I did not have energy for anything. After a few days, my fiancee had to travel, so I started watching movies and actually watched the whole first season of Prison Break. I have not even watched TV for such a long time…

I bled for the first day after MTX, and after that I just had spotting for a couple of days. Then it stopped completely, until yesterday and today (12.3) I had a little bit of brown spotting which made me worried. I have still had some pain when I go to toilet and occasionally I feel pain somewhere in between the stomach and back area. However, the pregnancy hormone has gone down nicely. When I got my treatment it was 170ish, after that it dropped to 100 in a few days, and few days ago it was only 56. So I guess that should make me less worried… I will have an appointment in the hospital on Wednesday and hoping that everything is “back to normal” then…

Two days ago, almost two weeks after my treatment, I went to gym to do some aerobics to test my body, since I already felt pretty good. I survived, but felt very exhausted I’ve been mainly eating fruit and fresh vegetables since normal food and especially meat has made me feel nauseous, but today I had my first real meal - some lemongrass chicken…

Now I’m just hoping to get a new change to be pregnant and that it will be in the right place :slight_smile: