I wanted to share my miscarriage story with you as this board has been such a help to me, but my miscarriage was quite different from anything I've read here and I was so scared and unprepared because of this.
I found out that I had an mmc just before my 12 week scan. Four days later, I phoned in for a Medical Management. That night at about 11pm, I started to have very light cramps and about half an hour later, I felt a gush and started to bleed. I was on the toilet for 2 hours with very heavy bleeding and some huge clots. At 1am, I was able to leave the toilet, but was dashing back regularly as the pads just weren't able to cope with the large clots. At 3am, I decided the bleeding had abated enough to go to bed. I got up and immediately felt sick and dizzy and I felt more clots. After bumping off lots of furniture, I made it to the toilet, where I seem to have passed out. I woke up slumped back over the toilet cistern with a buzzing in my ears and I was sweating, but cold and clammy, and still feeling that I was going to vomit. I managed to get off the toilet, but collapsed on the floor on all fours, where I stayed until I felt a bit better. I tried to call my husband, but I couldn't speak and part of me was scared to wake my dc.
I made in into the hall, I remember blacking out after bouncing off the walls and the furniture and my husband found me slumped against the wall. He managed to get me into the bedroom, where I came to and couldn't understand how I'd got there. He tried to move me, but I just kept saying to him, no, I need to lie down. He wanted to call the hospital, but I just kept saying I was fine and I just wanted to sleep. I was freezing at this point, but the nausea had gone and the dizziness was more or less under control. I got into bed, my husband asking me if I was sure I was okay. I mumbled that I needed to sleep.
At 6am I woke up from an extremely restless sleep, freezing and clammy feeling sick again and feeling more blood pouring from me. I tried to get up and passed out again, falling into the bathroom after bouncing my shoulder and knee off the walls. I missed banging my head on the toilet by inches. My husband tried to move me, but I insisted on lying on the bathroom floor for a few minutes. At this point, he wouldn't take no for an answer and tried to phone the hospital, but as they'd kept my notes when it was found I'd miscarried, we didn't have the number to hand, so he phoned NHS 24, who, after asking me lots of questions, insisted on sending an ambulance as they thought I was suffering from shock.
It turned out that I was suffering from the first signs of shock, had lost too much blood too quickly and had a number of clots stuck in my cervix, which they cleared out with forceps. I was on a drip and oxygen, my blood pressure was low and I couldn't warm up, but I had miscarried all but a 2 cm piece of tissue. The hospital kept telling me that I should have called them earlier. My point is, I didn't know whether this was normal or not - I didn't have any pain whatsoever - I didn't know how much blood it was normal to lose and I didn't know whether passing out and sickness was normal. It isn't, so please, please if you suffer any of these symptoms call the hospital. I missed having a transfusion by the skin of my teeth and I'm physically as weak as a kitten at the moment. But it's finally over and I can start to deal with it mentally now.....
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babytantrums · 28/05/2011 17:09
feel as though I have a stabbing pain in my left hand side...wondering whether this could be the start of something? I seemed to have (sorry TMI) more discharge/mucus last few days but still clear, no pink or brown? Would really like my body to just get on with this so that I can move on! Anyone else remember how it all started...bleeding or cramps first?
So sorry for your experience, glad you wrote about it though.
I had a mc at 11.5 weeks about 2 yrs ago, and yours is the first time I've read anything remotely similar to mine - only yours sounds shockingly worse.
I too called nhs direct, and they insisted on me either waking dh or sending an ambulance. My problem wasn't copious bleeding it was the pain - it was like being in labour.
It turned out that some 'products of conception' 
were stuck in the neck of my cervix, and my body was trying and trying to shift them, but couldn't. A good couple of shots of morphine sorted me out until it can be removed with forceps.
Floating away in a morphine cloud was the kindest part of the whole thing, mental detachment was wonderful. Unfortunately, you can't take it home with you.
Everyone thinks I was such a drama queen for going to a&e, but I know I had no choice.
Thank you for sharing your story, and sorry you had to experience it.
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