Yeah! to dark tests Manda and to shagging like a pro Summer !! (a professional, I mean
)
Manda, I did have Methotrexate, and it is in the MX protocol that Anti D must be given. I had a strange experience. Went to EPU due to light bleeding/spotting. My uterus was empty, should've been 6+5. Said they could see slightly thickened lining but no evidence of a PG. Nothing in tubes either. That days HcG was 800. Although they said 800 seemed low for my stage, they said it wasn't outwith the realms of possibilty (and its the rate of increase that's important, not the figure itself) so I could maybe be a bit wrong with my dates. Then, my 48 hour test came back at 1600. So, they told me categorially that HcG DOES NOT rise properly in an ectopic, it NEVER doubles etc etc, so I am just behind with dates and this seems like a viable pg. Come in in a weeks time for a scan. No further bleeding/spotting.
Fast forward 1 week to scan. Empty uterus again
. Nothing in tubes. Blood tests taken, then left in the room with no instructions to wait for a doctor. MW just left the room as said these results should be available after 2pm. Because of the week before, when we had just been sent home after the blood test, we thought we were just to do the same. Oooops. Wrong. EPU phoned a few hours later saying "where did you go?" (wasn't really thinking straight as you can imagine)
Went back in the next day. Should have been around 8 weeks by this time.
2 sonographers in during that scan, for senior second opinion. They said that there was free fluid in my abdomen and pouch of douglas (??). When the consultant came to speak to me, she said the fluid didn't didn't look like blood so there weren't worried about rupture, but that due to previous doubling of HcG, and fact that yesterdays test was up to 3000, there were sure there was a PG trying to grown somewhere tucked away in my abdomen. Said most likely that the PG had attached in the tube, then had been expelled (cause of the fluid) but reattached somewhere in the abdomen. Until then, I had no idea this was even possible! (and wish I hadn't googled this when I got home).
So, anyway, they said they wanted me to wait in the hosp for my blood test result, which they would get urgently.
Couple of hours later, test results back, HcG up to 3,800. They said this was quite high for an ectopic (or 'pregnancy of unknown location' as they were now calling it), that they were sure there was pg trying to grow somewhere (but that it wouldn't be a normal pg) and talked to me about the options. They said surgery would be considered but that they would need to root about looking
. As I was in no pain, and not bleeding, they said the MX was the best option.
So, I had it. 2 days later, I got up to the loo in the morning and was bent double with pain. it was like a hot, stabbing pain. Almost passed out with the pain. When DH saw me, he shot out of bed like a rocket, said I was green.
I can only assume it was 'separation' pain, which they said could happen once the 'products of conception' (nasty term) started to come away 
When I googled abdominal pg, I found out that there were 3 live births recorded where the baby had attached to various places in the abdomen (I think, the intestinal wall in one case!), but that mortality of mother is very high because there's a high risk of rupture of the organ it attaches to.
Anyway, I'll never really know how far that wee one got in its development, they basically told me that there was no hope for a abdominal PG (which wasn't techincally true. The stories I found are documented in reliable medical journals, not in the Sun) but I supppose I am a little worried that there could have been a mix of blood during that separation, since I now know that a baby could, theoretically, have been hiding away and growing somewhere
. I know the risk is probably very low, but it's just another thing I wish I didn't need to worry about.
Phew, that was an essay and a half!
Sending some happy sunshine and PMA vibes to metallers everywhere!