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Hey girl I need advise.. I only had a 1 day Af on the 29 of june.. Now my stomach is swollen and i am hurting so bad in my left side.. I cant go to doctor till monday.. I am so worried..
OMG im sorry for your loss...im glad to hear from you as i wondered what happened after your last post...thanks for informing us what happened to you because im sure it will help someone out there...good luck with the next ob!!
I am sorry for what you had to go through. We had our surgeries the same day but I was not so lucky, my TR was not possible. I remember hearing the Dr telling you your lengths (I knew from your lengths once it was posted) and my husband and I without even knowing you ladies were happy for you all. I was excited when your BFP was posted and I am sure you will have another one soon. Take care of yourself and I believe your day will come again very soon.
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Heidi, You have been in my thoughts and prayers. I am so sorry you and your family are going through this. Thank you for sharing your story. I am sure it wasn't easy for you. I am wishing you all the best! Good luck with your OB/GYN appt. today.
I counted the first day of your miscarriage as CD 1 and added you back to the list. Just let me know when your next cycle starts and I will adjust it then. Take care, Rene
After my first TR I got pg 8 mo later when we weren't officially trying and had an 'oops' moment. At 5 weeks we started the blood work and u/s's. They saw a psuedo sac but no fetal pole. After multiple u/s they found what they said was and EP on my upper right tube.
I had two series of metho and for the record I never experienced pain or bleeding till a week after the second series of shots. Seven months later had an HSG which showed both tubes blocked.
After consulting with Dr. B again he said he wasn't positive they were both blocked. I rescheduled a second TR for April. Dr. B said he would unblock the left tube but that he might need to implant the right tube. He ended up not having to implant he just removed .5 cm from each side.
After surgery he came out and said that he actually found what he thought was pregnancy tissue on the LEFT tube...WTF?!?!?!
On the right he said there was a purplish tissue that resembled endo but that without testing of both he couldn't be sure. I opted not to do this as I wanted to look forward not backward but I trust Dr. B's opinion since he was actually looking at the masses that my EP was actually in my LEFT and not my right as they said...
Now in my case it didn't matter as an EP is an EP either way left or right but again...as Heidi stated know your rights and consult with Chapel Hill if you have any worries etc. They can look at your u/s and give their opinion on what they think...etc.
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Heidi oh my i can not even imagine. i am so sorry i am not the type of person that sues people and no amount of money can change things but i do believe with a mistake of that degree i would sue the pants off of those people.
i do like your attitude of when not if take care Shawna
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Heidi... I am so sorry for your loss. I am mad at the doctor for you. Thank you for sharing with us, so hopefully someone else can avoid the same problem. God Bless you and I will be praying for you! Heather
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Hi, everyone. I haven't been on in quite some time, and wanted to share my story with everyone, with the hopes that what happened to me will be avoided by everyone else! I had a positive pregnancy test on May 25 and started testing my HCG levels the next day. By the end of the week, it was over 1200 (way over 1200!) and I went to my first appointment with the OB nurse at my new doctor's office. After giving my full history and getting all the usual new baby information, we went to the hospital for the ultrasound to confirm everything was as it should be. After an hour and a half of waiting with nobody telling us anything, we met the on-call midwife from the doctor's office, who told us the pregnancy was ectopic.
We were upset, but knew what our options were, since we'd had so much information from Chapel Hill. We had a vacation planned and were to leave on Saturday (this was Monday)and definitely didn't want to have laparascopic surgery if it wasn't necessary, so we asked if methotrexate was an option. After calling one of the OB docs and explaining our situation, the midwife told us to head to the ER for the injection. At the ER I was asked by three different people if I was having any pain (I wasn't) or if I was bleeding (I wasn't). And when I said no to both, they all wanted to know how I knew the pregnancy was ectopic. I told them that I'd had an ultrasound that showed an ectopic pregnancy. I was given the injection and sent home to grieve and recover.
We got through the week and headed off to Disney World that Saturday, determined to keep our thoughts positive and get through it and try again. While in Florida, I went for a follow up HCG level, so my new doctor could make sure my levels were falling as they should. I got a call later that evening from my doctor, asking me to go back to the ER for another methotrexate shot, since my HCG levels weren't falling as much as he wanted to see. While I was in the ER, I began to bleed, so an ultrasound was ordered to make sure my tube hadn't ruptured. An hour later, the ER doctor was informing us that my pregnancy was NOT ectopic, that it was actually intrauterine.
I can't even convey the shock, anger and pain we felt. We had actually made a baby, and the odds were very low that it would develop normally. Methotrexate kills fast-growing cells and the fastest growing cells in the human body are those of a developing fetus. My HCG levels hadn't doubled, they'd only risen by 1000. The fetal heart rate was only 101 and should have been in the 140 range at that point. Babies that survive after being exposed to Methotrexate often have major problems, including limb deformities and hydrocephalus. There really wasn't much hope. We found all this out after we did extensive research on the internet, just hoping there was a chance.
We finished our Disney vacation as best we could. Our kids were all with us and we'd said many times that this would most likely be the last vacation we'd have as a family for a long time, since we have one in college, one just graduated and one graduating in a year. So we didn't want to give that up.
The ER in Florida didn't give me that second dose of Methotrexate. They just sent me home, since I'd already started bleeding. By the following Thursday, my bleeding had stopped and I'd never had a complete miscarriage. So my doctor prescribed Cytotec for me, I took the meds the next day and miscarried that evening.
I learned so many things from this experience and I want to stress a couple to everyone who's trying to conceive because I don't want anyone to have to go through what happened to us.
First of all, get established with an OB/Gyn as soon as you can. We didn't even get to meet our doctor before he had to make the call to end my pregnancy. The standard practice in that office was to have a first visit with a nurse and meet the doctor at the next appointment. We who have had tubal reversals are different and have special circumstances. Our doctors need to know what to expect and how to take care of us. We're not like the typical OB patient. Our doctor told us what he should have done was send us to Florida and have us come back and have a repeat ultrasound, since I wasn't having any pain or bleeding at the time of the ultrasound. I don't understand why he didn't look at the whole picture at the time the Methotrexate was prescribed. Why he didn't take my HCG levels into account or the fact that I had no pain or bleeding. I've lost all confidence in him as a physician and am seeing a new OB/Gyn tomorrow to share my story and explain my situation and make sure he knows what to do when I get pregnant again. Notice I say, "when", not "if".
Second, push for your rights. I wish we'd asked for a second opinion. Alarm bells should have been ringing in my head when so many people questioned how I knew my pregnancy was ectopic if there was no pain or bleeding, but we were upset by the news and trusted that what we were told was the truth. I later found out that usually there is a lot of pain with ectopic pregnancies.
One week would have made all the difference in my case. I personally think the ultrasound tech saw the words "rule out ectopic" on the ultrasound order and went looking for an ectopic pregnancy. She completely missed the real pregnancy that was in my uterus. And that ectopic pregnancy they saw? I've since been told it was likely that they saw the ovarian cyst that the egg burst out of when I ovulated.
Look out for yourselves, girls. Educate yourselves and your doctor. We paid a lot of money and put a lot of hope into this journey. We need to make sure we're taken care of.
I hope you're all well.
Oh, and I have absolutely no idea what cycle day I'm on, Rene. It's been two weeks, four days since my miscarriage and I'm just waiting to see what happens next.
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Thank you for sharing with us, so hopefully someone else can avoid the same problem. God Bless you and I will be praying for you!
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