I'm 7 weeks pregnant with IVF and yesterday got 2 completely different diagnoses: one from the IVF clinic and another from my local hospital's emergency gynaecology unit.
Because it's IVF, I had a 7 week scan yesterday at the IVF clinic and two different doctors there said there was definitely no heartbeat (there hadn't been one the week before either). They used the doppler to double check and there was definitely no sound. CRL measurement was 7.7mm. They told me to stop taking the IVF medication immediately and referred me to my local hospital to make arrangements for a managed miscarriage (I haven't had any bleeding or cramps, probably because I'm on progesterone).
I went straight to my local hospital and got seen by a midwife sonographer. She said she could definitely see a heartbeat. She measured the CRL at 2.8mm, and this was only 2 hours after the clinic had measured it at 7.7mm. She wouldn't use the doppler to check.She just said she could clearly see a heartbeat, so I should wait another whole week and get rescanned then, and to keep taking the medication.
Both scans were transvaginal, so more accurate than ultrasound. I suspect the IVF clinic, being private, had better scanning machines. There can't be very much room for dates being wrong, as it was IVF.
When I told the IVF clinic what the hospital had said they were incredulous and said it had never happened before. But they said just in case, I should keep taking the meds and wait another week for another scan, while also being on standby for a miscarriage to come.
Has this happened to anyone? My hunch is that the hospital sonographer just mistook one of my blood vessels for a heartbeat and wanted to go home as it was the end of the day.
It's agonising not knowing what's going on or what to plan for, especially with my nearly 4 year old at home picking up on all the tension and confusion and not knowing the reason. I want to protect her from trauma as my youngest daughter was stillborn at full term last year.
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Misdiagnosed miscarriage at 7 weeks IVF - can this happen?
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Leyton · 22/07/2020 22:13
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