HI everyone,
After years of trying for a baby, my doctor referred me to a specialist. I was diagnosed with PCOS & I was put on Clomid. Several months of nothing happened. One month I got 2 periods within about 10 days of each other. I phoned the specialist & the receptionist said “sounds like an ep to me” and hung up. I phoned NHS direct who said the same thing & advised me to get an emergency Dr’s appt. I did a hpt & sure enough it was +ive. My Dr said I couldnt be pregnant, test must be wrong but to come back in 3 days if still +ive. Did a test every day & still it was +ive. Went back & Dr said all would be fine. A couple of days later I was still bleeding so I went back & saw a different Dr who referred me for a scan. I had my scan & the sonologist said all was fine as she could see the baby in the womb! WHat relief. We told our parents who were overjoyed & they wanted to celebrate, but part of me knew that all was not ok. Finally, about 10 days later, the bleeding got a bit worse, so I decided all wasw most definately not OK & I plonked myself in A&E. They moved to the EPU upstairs who scanned me again & couldnt see anything & took bHcG. The results were 70 & they said I’d miscarried & to go home but to come back 48 hours later for another blood test. Well, my levels went up & so the tests were repeated for 10 days.
Finally Dr decided to do a laporoscopy as they just werent sure what was going on. The laparoscopy turned into a laparotomy I lost my baby, my left tube & a lot of blood. When I went back to my Doctors, he said he was really suprised to hear it had been an ectopic. :twisted: NOBODY ELSE WAS!!!
I often thought of complaining.
So that put me off Clomid as I was terrified of another EP.
Finally our chance at IVF on the NHS came up & we discovered we needed ICSI. We had aour 1st attempt in Dec 05 & got the BFP we had been dreaming of. I’d had some bleeding & feared the worst but my first scan at 6weeks showed 2 sacs, but sadly one had stopped growing. The other had a strong heartbeat. We were overjoyed. The bleeding was slight but continued. My fear grew. My second scan at 8weeks showed the same strong heartbeat. Again I was overjoyed. Then the day after my birthday, I had a sudden gush & I was pouring with blood, literally. I was besides myself & took myself to hospital. I couldnt bear to look at the scan, but again, there was my baby’s heartbeat.
The bleeding slowed & finally stopped 2 days later, but then started lightly again on Mothers Day. This continued for approx 2 weeks. I went for my next scan & my worst fears were confirmed. My baby had died. According to the size, my baby died on Mother’ s Day. How sadly ironic.
I am now trying to gather the strength to try again using some frozen embryos.
Love, luck & babydust to all
xxx