Any hope for this pregnancy?

[Zoeylouss]

(Accidentally posted in pregnancy, sorry)

Hi all. I am supposedly 6+3 weeks.

Today I went to the EPU because I had bad cramping and a slight spot over the weekend (I'll admit I did over exaggerate the pain level and perhaps just wanted to be reassured my baby was okay after miscarrying a few months back).

Since I found out I was pregnant on the 16th September, nothing seemed 'right'. I've not gotten a single symptom and I did have sore breasts, but that's all disappeared.

The doctor wanted an ultrasound because he wasn't happy with how uncomfortable I was with her touching the right hand side of my lower abdomen/uterus. She suspected an eptopic and said she'd be looking for the sac to be in the right location.

I had the scan, and the doctor came along with me. The sonographer said the pregnancy was indeed in the correct place (so highly unlikely to be eptopic), but what I found unusual was that the sac was a tiny pinprick! I even had to say myself 'that doesn't look like a six week scan' and her reply was no looks much earlier than that. My bloods came back and they were just 800, which I've looked up and appears abnormal for a 5/6 week pregnancy, yet my doctor didn't comment upon that and just asked for me to return for bloods in 48 hours ensure they go up.

Before I left the hospital I went to the loo and when I checked my cervix (not when I wiped or anything), there was a little string of blood and I've got this blood tinged discharge ever since! Why did the spotting stop Sunday and all of a sudden today after a Tranvaginal scan I'm bleeding? Can those scans cause minor bleeding because the cervix is sensitive?

The issue is this, I can't be less than a good 5/6 weeks, because I've known since the 16th September! Does this automatically mean my pregnancy will end in a miscarriage and hasn't developed properly?

I feel like a selfish cow for exaggerating symptoms for a scan, but it seems as if I've now paid my dues and got my just deserts sad

Even if my HcG levels DO double, that's still not normal to see a tiny pin prick of a sac at 5/6 weeks, is it?

Thank you all, this is so so hard for me, as I can imagine it is for everyone xxxxx

I've got no experience but I wanted to bump this for you and hope somebody more knowledgeable comes along.

Big hug from me though and I hope that you get some good news.

First of all, you are not selfish, far from it. You are worried about your baby and you just want someone to help you and reassure you that everything is ok. You have done the right thing and have seeked help.

I can't tell whether you have miscarried or not. I have had 3 miscarriages at around 6 weeks and when they did the scan there was no sac. So all I can comment is that seeing a sac can be good news. It maybe that it will grow over the next few weeks to the right size.

It is very hard and I really do hope the doctors will be able to give you the good news you deserve. No one deserve to go through a miscarriage.

I send you big hugs. Hold onto whatever hope you have that this pregnancy will pull through.

Xx

There is always hope, but no one can reassure you really at the moment.

The transvaginal scan can make your cervix bleed from the irritation. So that is not a worry in itself.

I went for a scan with one pregnancy at 7+3 and they saw a small sack less than 5 weeks in size, told me it was all over or my dates wrong (I knew my dates to be accurate), but as it turned out I just have a retroverted uterus (very common), which meant that the scan mis-measured the size by 2 weeks+. So in terms of the size, again this is not a worry purely in itself.

The low hcg levels again by themselves mean absolutely nothing, whether they go up in the next 48 hours is more significant. If the levels go down, then you will know that the pregnancy is not looking good. Any other result, in itself might be reassuring or not.

Unfortunately as a recurrent miscarrier, I have learnt the stress of early scans, I now avoid them.

Try to distract yourself and keep positive "today I am pregnant" mantra works well. Time is the only answer. Sorry that no-one can give you an answer now. Seriously try to distract yourself with other things.