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Miscarriage/pregnancy loss

In total shock- what just came out of me?

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kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 14:49

Dear all,

I'm in total shock!!!

I had a missed miscarriage discovered at the 12 week scan in December 2018 and then had surgical management on 24th December 2018 as the medical management hadn't worked. I spotted brown stuff for just under two weeks and started having sex again on 10th January 2019. I started temping on 10th January and my app said I was due on my period on Monday 4th Feb which was correct- I started spotting on Monday 4th Feb and then had bleeding like a period on Tuesday 5th Feb. Then on Tuesday evening/early hours of Wednesday morning I was in agony. The worst pain I have ever experienced. I can only describe it as I had imagine contractions would be and it hurt for about a minute, no pain for two minutes and then pain again and so on. I took painkillers but they didn't help! Wednesday lunchtime I felt better and was bleeding like normal again. Then I had the pain again on Friday night/early hours of Saturday morning and it was similar to before but not quite as bad. I took co-codamol and it helped and the pain had gone last night. I woke up this morning in no pain. No bloody on my bad but when I went for a pee and wiped there was blood. I then went and did the dishes and felt something slide out of my vagina and into my knickers and ran to the bathroom and a long object had come out of me. It's about 4 inches long and 1.5 inches in diameter. What is it? I've rang 111 NHS and they are calling me back. Is it a baby? Could I have been pregnant again and be miscarrying? Would it be that size or would the sac be that size? I'm traumatised!

Thank you in advance x

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CottonSock · 10/02/2019 14:52

It could be the sac, could you Google an image to see if similar. This happened to me weeks after my mc, I felt pretty rubbish as I thought it was all over.

At4oclockthenormalworld · 10/02/2019 14:57

Oh love, first I'm sorry for your loss. The medical interventions after must make everything so much more awful.
Sounds to me like it could be the sac hopefully you'll have a call soon.

Is someone with you?

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 15:04

@CottonSock @At4oclockthenormalworld

Thank you for your replies. Sorry for the typos in my post (auto type!).

My husband is here with me. Yes I guess it could be the sac but would that be of the old pregnancy? You'd have thought they'd have got everything out of me during the operation. Could it be a new pregnancy? I will google other sacs now. Thanks so much for replying! xx

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At4oclockthenormalworld · 10/02/2019 15:13

Glad you're not by yourself.
Sorry my knowledge is pretty limited so I won't speculate. I hope you get some answers very soon you must be scared.

CottonSock · 10/02/2019 15:30

Is there any way it could be a tampon? Sorry if that's a silly suggestion.
I didn't have surgical management, but they scanned me a few weeks later to check all was clear. I passed the sac the day before!

CottonSock · 10/02/2019 15:32

Hopefully they will see you and may be a scan. Sorry for your loss. I had 4 x mc, but have 2 dds now.

Fiddie · 10/02/2019 15:35

I think it might be the sac too x

honorariam · 10/02/2019 15:42

Have you kept it, OP?

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 15:45

@honorariam yes I have. I've put it in a tupperware box as I want it to be examined. I think it was a further pregnancy and I've just experienced another miscarriage to be honest.

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kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 15:46

@CottonSock it's reassuring to know that you have two children even after having 4 MC.

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emeraldmoon · 10/02/2019 15:53

Could it be a decidual cast? I've had a bit of decidual cast before which caused really bad period pain until it came out

ItsLikeRainOnYourWeddingDay · 10/02/2019 15:54

I doubt it is another pregnancy. To be 4 inches long the gestational age would be 12 weeks or even more.

Could it be a tampon? Could it be something left by error during surgery like a rag, sponge, mesh etc?

honorariam · 10/02/2019 15:56

@kittycat01 that sounds likely to me and I think it would be a good idea to show the hospital when they see you. At the very least, they will be able to confirm your suspicions. So sorry you're having to deal with this.

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 16:01

Thanks everyone. Definitely not a tampon. Since the surgery in December I haven't used tampons. I'll see the doctor and let you all know the outcome. Thanks for all of your messages and support!

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Weetabixandshreddies · 10/02/2019 16:14

It sounds like a decidual cast. Maybe you could google to see if it looks like that?

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 16:42

@Weetabixandshreddies thanks. I've just googled and it could be that but it's not the same shape (unless it doesn't need to be that shape?!?)

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At4oclockthenormalworld · 10/02/2019 17:06

Hi OP hope you're doing ok. Have you had a call yet? X

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 17:13

@At4oclockthenormalworld no not yet. They said I'd get a call within 6 hours and that was at 2.30 they said that so got a while to wait...

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At4oclockthenormalworld · 10/02/2019 17:20

Ah ok. Stay comfortable then, take care x

Refilona · 10/02/2019 17:24

I would go to the antenatal unit of the hospital you were seen before right now, I wouldn’t wait for a phone call.

Mishappening · 10/02/2019 17:24

My DD had something similar happen to her - a missed abortion that was (she thought) dealt with, but a week or so later she delivered an orange-sized "thing" down the loo - very disturbing - she was very upset. So I know what you are going through and hope it all gets sorted soon.

MiceSqueakCatsMeow · 10/02/2019 17:28

This is probably tmi but I sometimes I would get fleshy lumps that were different to the large blood clots. One was the size of my palm once. But they were huge. My period pains were like contractions.

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 10/02/2019 17:42

I hope you have an answer from NHS by now, but just incase it helps - i had a haemmorage 3 weeks after giving birth and it was large lumps just like you described - turns out that’s what old blood clots can be like.

I had retained placenta which had given me an infection which had led to large blood clots forming, and i wasn’t aware until they suddenly started coming out. I was freaked out enough to call an ambulance and that turned out to be a good call as i need a transfusion and small procedure to get rid of retained product. Possible that your MC left some retained product (sorry, that is just what the hospital called it, i know it’s awful) which could have led to this?

indyswoofer · 10/02/2019 18:07

I really don't know why they don't warn people that this may happen. I had a MC at 12 weeks and was admitted and monitored but as everything was proceeding naturally was discharged. A few days after the terrible contraction type pains and heavy bleeding had finished I passed a mass about the size of a tennis ball and it completely freaked me out as I did not expect it at all. It was traumatic and I really wish the hospital had warned that it 'might' happen as I think it would have prepared me.
I really hope you get some answers and reassurance soon.

kittycat01 · 10/02/2019 22:39

Hi all, just got back from the out of hours and they looked at it and said it was another miscarriage. They said I shouldn't be trying again for 3 months as my uterus needs time to repair and I should have been told this before (but I was just told to try again last time when I feel mentally ready)! The only positive from this though is that I can get pregnant again (after it initially taking 18 months before the first miscarriage). x

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