Is this an early miscarriage or should I be worried it's somethingelse?

On Jan 7, 4:18 pm, cjra wrote:
On Jan 7, 2:12 pm, NL wrote:

cjra schrieb:

Fortunately today it's more of a dull, constant pain. Still bleeding.
It's weird - goes from bright red to old blood over ~ 36 hrs, stops
for about 12 hours, then starts again.

Go, see your gynecologist. I miscarried when I was 20 and had a d/c due
to "missed abortion" (meaning my body wasn't going to expel the dead
embryo by itself). They messed it up and didn't get everything out and I
was bleeding for weeks going from bright red to old blood to bright red
over and over. I went into a different hospital for another d/c and the
bleeding stopped within two or three days.

I called and am waiting for a call back. I have had a m/c before - at
12 weeks followed by a d&c (I actually m/c'd at 6 weeks but didn't
know it til almost 12 weeks and my body wasn't letting go....), and it
was very different from this.

This pg should have been no more than a few weeks, unless my period in
November was a 'false' one. Anyway, I'm waiting to hear back now.

Crap. Sorry to follow up my own post. The gyn's office just called, my
HCG levels on Friday had increased from Tuesday - not doubled, but
increasing. They initially said to come back for a test in one week,
but I explained my issues from Saturday and the nurse is going to
check with the doc to see if I should come in for another u/s.

CJRA, it sounds like you have something else going on. I am sorry the
ER staff were not more sympathetic. Their idea of a medical emergency
is life or death; agony that cannot wait for office hours is not
their problem. Does your OB/GYN have an answering service? This is
the kind of situation where I would call them at any hour and expect
to talk to the doctor on call.

Pologirl

On Jan 7, 6:14*pm, Pologirl wrote:
CJRA, it sounds like you have something else going on. *I am sorry the
ER staff were not more sympathetic. *Their idea of a medical emergency
is life or death; *agony that cannot wait for office hours is not
their problem. *Does your OB/GYN have an answering service? *This is
the kind of situation where I would call them at any hour and expect
to talk to the doctor on call.

I talked to them today. I'll be going for an u/s on Thursday and
another blood test.

Crap. Sorry to follow up my own post. The gyn's office just called, my
HCG levels on Friday had increased from Tuesday - not doubled, but
increasing. *They initially said to come back for a test in one week,
but I explained my issues from Saturday and the nurse is going to
check with the doc to see if I should come in for another u/s.- Hide quoted text -

How frustrating, it barely tells you anything, other than that
whatever isn't going on isn't done with, which you knew anyway.
Fingers crossed that the next U/S will be conclusive.

Cheers
Anne

cjra schrieb:

Crap. Sorry to follow up my own post. The gyn's office just called, my
HCG levels on Friday had increased from Tuesday - not doubled, but
increasing. They initially said to come back for a test in one week,
but I explained my issues from Saturday and the nurse is going to
check with the doc to see if I should come in for another u/s.

How frustrating :-/ I hope they find out what's going on then.
*hugs*
nicole

On Jan 7, 9:38 pm, Anne Rogers wrote:
Crap. Sorry to follow up my own post. The gyn's office just called, my
HCG levels on Friday had increased from Tuesday - not doubled, but
increasing. They initially said to come back for a test in one week,
but I explained my issues from Saturday and the nurse is going to
check with the doc to see if I should come in for another u/s.- Hide quoted text -

How frustrating, it barely tells you anything, other than that
whatever isn't going on isn't done with, which you knew anyway.
Fingers crossed that the next U/S will be conclusive.


Well, of course I am considering worst case scenario now...it's hard
to get that out of my head. At this point ectopic would be *best*
case, as another possibility is a molar pregnancy or worse.

I go in on Thursday for the sonogram, hopefully that will shed some
light.

On Jan 8, 5:20*am, cjra wrote:
On Jan 4, 4:07 pm, Anne Rogers wrote:





Thanks for posting that link. I guess I had assumed it was ruled out
because they seemed unconcerned about it. That said, the doc who
initially examined me had left by the time they finished the u/s (both
abdominal and vaginal), the new doc reviewed the chart but never came
to see me, just told the nurse to d/c me. It was the nurse who went
through the labs. The HCG was 175.

9% of pregnancy/birth related deaths in the US are from ectopic
pregnancy, it's not that high just because things can happen so fast
that women don't get to the hospital in time, it's that high because
it's a complicated thing to diagnose, many women who die from it will
have been to the ER and been discharged. Unfortunately if you don't
get all the details from the doctor in the ER it's difficult to tell
whether they made good decisions or not and if symptoms don't stop, it
leaves you in a tough place, do you go back, or assume it's a tough
miscarriage. It looks from your other posts that your under the right
person now, so I'm crossing my fingers that things will work
themselves out and you don't need to get any treatment.

Well, I had another scare on Saturday night/Sunday morning....I was
actually beginning to feel better. I bled a lot late Sat night and
passed a tiny bit of tissue, but the pain was subsiding and I thought
it all might finally be ending. Then at midnight suddenly had a sharp
stabbing burning pain in my left lower pelvic region. The pain across
the abdomen. It felt a lot like labor but with a knife thru me.... To
make matters worse DH is out of the country and I was alone with DD.
After 1.5 hours of that - I couldn't lay down, I was kneeling, hunched
over - and the pain went to my arm. I called DH in tears just needing
someone to talk to - as it was the middle of the night I was hesitant
to call anyone else. I have a very high pain tolerance, which DH knows
- and also scared me because if it hurt this bad, something must be
wrong. After another hour of that, he convinced me to go to the ER and
called some friends over to take care of DD. That was 3am. Well, I
went to the ER doubled over in pain, after 1.5 hours of waiting
finally saw the triage nurse who said "If they did an u/s on Tuesday
and didn't see anything, you don't have anything to worry about, but
you can wait 5+ more hours to have them look at you if you want."
Making me feel like an idiot for even being there. After another hour
of waiting and seeing that no one else who was waiting had been called
back either, I gave up. The pain had begun subsiding again, and I
figured if it got extreme again I'd call an ambulance to take me...

Fortunately today it's more of a dull, constant pain. Still bleeding.
It's weird - goes from bright red to old blood over ~ 36 hrs, stops
for about 12 hours, then starts again.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

i just miscarriaged myself and i went into hospital on the night that
my waters broke, i had alot of the pain in the hip area too on that
day i miscarriaged, after passing the baby of 15 weeks at 3 am in the
morning they told me to go home. i was in so much pain that i was
rushed back to hospital 24 hrs later then the stupid doctor told me i
had a uterus tract infection and set me home after 5 hours. then i was
still in alot of pain in the hip and across the lower part of my
adomen. so again i was rushed back to hospital and all i got was a
doctor who did a scan but didnt look at the results fully and they did
what they call a manual removal, because i had blood clots sitting on
and around my cervix. they sent me home with pills telling me i had a
infection in there. so i spent another week in pain until i went to my
own doctor, whom had been on holidays when this all happened and i was
sent for another scan, to which it was confirmed that all the times i
had been in pain and was bleeding alot and was back and forward to the
hospital they had left me with product inside, which had cause i major
infection and to cure it all they needed to do was put me on meds for
48 hours and do a d and c which is what they did do after all that, i
was on alot of meds for 2 weeks after, which was not good cause they
made me really sick taken them, but i really did not have a choice.
all i would advise you to do is keep going back to the hospital and
doctors until they listen, cause i was lucky that i have no serious
damage cause of it. the doctor told me after a healed that if it had
gone on too much longer that i could of got a blood infection and died
or that it could of damaged my insides so that i would never have
another child.

"cjra" wrote in message
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On Jan 7, 4:18 pm, cjra wrote:
On Jan 7, 2:12 pm, NL wrote:

cjra schrieb:

Fortunately today it's more of a dull, constant pain. Still bleeding.
It's weird - goes from bright red to old blood over ~ 36 hrs, stops
for about 12 hours, then starts again.

Go, see your gynecologist. I miscarried when I was 20 and had a d/c due
to "missed abortion" (meaning my body wasn't going to expel the dead
embryo by itself). They messed it up and didn't get everything out and
I
was bleeding for weeks going from bright red to old blood to bright red
over and over. I went into a different hospital for another d/c and the
bleeding stopped within two or three days.

I called and am waiting for a call back. I have had a m/c before - at
12 weeks followed by a d&c (I actually m/c'd at 6 weeks but didn't
know it til almost 12 weeks and my body wasn't letting go....), and it
was very different from this.

This pg should have been no more than a few weeks, unless my period in
November was a 'false' one. Anyway, I'm waiting to hear back now.

Crap. Sorry to follow up my own post. The gyn's office just called, my
HCG levels on Friday had increased from Tuesday - not doubled, but
increasing. They initially said to come back for a test in one week,
but I explained my issues from Saturday and the nurse is going to
check with the doc to see if I should come in for another u/s.


Hi

It's Thursday today, so I thought I'd say I hope you get a conclusive
answer... I don't have a clue what's going on for you, so I can't be much
help, but my thoughts are with you. I hope you find something out soon, and
that today's staff are better than the ER ones, who quite frankly, sound
appalling.

Lucy x

It's Thursday today, so I thought I'd say I hope you get a conclusive
answer... I don't have a clue what's going on for you, so I can't be much
help, but my thoughts are with you. I hope you find something out soon, and
that today's staff are better than the ER ones, who quite frankly, sound
appalling.

I see you responded in the other thread, so you got your update!

Scares the heck out of me, cjra walked away from the ER confident she
didn't have an ectopic pregnancy, she raised it here and there were
people who could jump in with it not being so certain and calling the
gynae, what if she hadn't been able to post here, the info it was
still a possibility was quite deep down in the flow chart of potential
happenings, not the kind of thing a quick google search or a chat with
a girlfriend throws up. It scares me how much we need to take
responsibility for our own health, yet doctors often don't like it
when we ask questions and even when we do, it's not like it's all
trivial information, it's pretty complex stuff to get to the bottom of
something like this. I realise doctors in the ER can't be experts on
everything, but they need to be better at knowing when they do need to
involve a specialist from another discipline, if a gynae had reviewed
cjra's notes that day, they'd have had getting another blood test in
48 hours.

Cheers
Anne

"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
...

It's Thursday today, so I thought I'd say I hope you get a conclusive
answer... I don't have a clue what's going on for you, so I can't be much
help, but my thoughts are with you. I hope you find something out soon,
and
that today's staff are better than the ER ones, who quite frankly, sound
appalling.

I see you responded in the other thread, so you got your update!

Scares the heck out of me, cjra walked away from the ER confident she
didn't have an ectopic pregnancy, she raised it here and there were
people who could jump in with it not being so certain and calling the
gynae, what if she hadn't been able to post here, the info it was
still a possibility was quite deep down in the flow chart of potential
happenings, not the kind of thing a quick google search or a chat with
a girlfriend throws up. It scares me how much we need to take
responsibility for our own health, yet doctors often don't like it
when we ask questions and even when we do, it's not like it's all
trivial information, it's pretty complex stuff to get to the bottom of
something like this. I realise doctors in the ER can't be experts on
everything, but they need to be better at knowing when they do need to
involve a specialist from another discipline, if a gynae had reviewed
cjra's notes that day, they'd have had getting another blood test in
48 hours.

Cheers
Anne

It irritates me because the majority of people have been made to feel stupid
and like they're wasting doctors' time, the way the ER docs made cjra feel.
It's shocking that she *knew*something was wrong with her and they dismissed
her. She'd questioned it and raised issues as much as she possibly could,
and they still didn't listen until the last minute.Thank goodness she knew
enough and had the confidence to seek further help.

Lucy x