To be haunted by this GP experience

[Hopeinabottle]

This happened 7 years ago but still makes me upset.
I was experiencing stomach cramps with pain going down one leg and after the third day went to see a GP. (Not my usual) He asked me for a urine sample. He tested and said "oh, there is lots going on here but I will send it off to the lab anyway". He gave me some anti biotics.
I took the 5 out of 7 days of the medication but had to go back to the GP as I was now in worse pain. I saw another GP and he asked me to repeat my urine test. He tested it and told me I was pregnant. He said "why did the previous GP not tell you that? Because the anti biotics he gave you are not to be used in pregnancy".He seemed really upset. I sat there completey shocked.booked me an emergency appointment for a scan.
I was seen really quickly and was told that one embryo had sadly broken away but the other one was doing fine and that I was 8 weeks pregnant.
I had a wonderful beautiful child. But I occasionally think that I could have had twins. Whenever I see that GP he always turns away from me. The other GP left the practice shortly after.
I just feel angry about this sometimes. Especially as I can't have more children.

Not sure this makes sense, a urinalysis dipstick, would not detect pregnancy hormone. That's a separate test altogether, so there is no way the first doctor would have known this, unless you had specifically told them. By the sounds of it, it was very early in the pregnancy, so I'm guessing you didn't know yourself either. As for the antibiotics, there are only certain antibiotics, such as tetracyclines, which can cause teeth discolouration in unborn children, and shouldn't be given after 15 weeks. Otherwise, the majority of UTI first line antibiotics, are generally ok. So I do think you are focussing a lot of your sadness on an aspect of your care, that really had no bearing on the outcome at all. I know it's hard, I lost my last child nearly half way through my pregnancy, and you do feel there must be some reason. But very often, it is just one of those things that nature decides, and there is nothing we can do about it

Regarding the first GP I saw, the second GP told me that the first doctor did not send off my urine sample.

Thank you all for your kind comments. I feel at lot of what has been said here has helped me understand what may have happened. I have never talked about this publically before, only to one or two close people in my life.

Hope the more you understand the more you can let it go.

I'm really sorry it happened and that it haunted you