This is a bit long, please don't read if you are waiting a MC and scared, I was unlucky and had complications that I was told are pretty rare, but I just wanted to update and thank everyone who has been so kind over the past couple of weeks.
It's all over. I am so relieved.
I had a horrific day yesterday, ended up being blue lighted to hospital at 7pm, fitting and passing out in the ambulance (turns out that fitting can be a complication of the cervix not dilating properly). Thankfully I called 999 as soon as I was feeling like I was going to faint, they were here in minuets, I passed out on the paramedic when he walked in. Thank god I called them or I would have passed out on my own. My blood pressure was going haywire, low to high, low to high.
Oh, and they didn't take me to the shitty local hospital, they called the EPU where I had been referred to and the A&E at the hospital agreed to take the ambulance there as they had all my notes so could see me faster, I was so relieved.
It came on so fast. The bleeding was light but I was getting contractions, getting closer and closer together and then at 3pm, all hell broke loose and I was on the toilet for the next four hours (tmi, sorry) but I was bleeding like a hosepipe and loosing clot after clot (I will never forget that feeling, it's disgusting), getting bigger all the time. The pain was manageable (ish) after I took codine, but when that wore off, it overwhelmed me and I started to feel like I was going to die, I really thought I was bleeding to death hence the 999 call.
Gas and air in the ambulance was amazing, took me to A&E and I was assessed immediately and only had to wait 10 mins for a dr. SHe had a look and what she thought was the sac was stuck in my cervix (it hadn't dilated enough as it had all been so fast) so she removed it (that was the most painful part of it all, I was in tears) and immediately, all the pain and panic went, it was like it had been lifted like magic.
They said it was the sac and fetus, they have kept it all for testing. I was pathetically grateful that I hadn't flushed my baby down the loo.
They took some bloods to make sure I wasn't anaemic after so much blood loss (thankfully, my body seemed to have coped well and all my blood levels were normal), and with the promise that I would go home and stay in bed for two days, they let me go at 11pm.
All the staff were amazing, I was treated swiftly and professionally with so much kindness and compassion from everyone, the ambulance crew, nurses, drs, I really couldn't have asked for better care, I was so impressed (Queen Charlottes, Hammersmith if anyone is interested).
I now only have period type bleeding and slight pain, no more clots.
Thank god one of the mums from school came straight to get ds, he's staying with them until tonight. He left just before things got really bad, I honestly don't know what would have happened if he had been here, he would have been terrified.
When I told the dr I had been booked in for medical management on wed, she said to me that if I am ever in this situation again, please don't consider it. If my body reacted in such a violent way to a natural miscarriage, the medical management would have been far worse. So thank god it happened the way it did.
I am back for a scan on wednesday, but like I said, I just have period bleeding, not even that heavy, so I think that is everything gone, fingers crossed.
If this ever happens to me again, I am having a D&C right away. At about 6pm last night, if someone had handed me a gun, I would have happily shot myself, I felt that bad. My fear of a GA is now nothing to my fear of a natural MC, my body after four weeks of nothing, went into overdrive for some reason, my bathroom looked like a murder scene.